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Putumayo
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 2.8%
The Putumayo landscape consists of Andean and Amazon forests that harbor extraordinary and still unexplored biodiversity. It encompasses an altitudinal gradient along the piedmont, into the Amazon lowlands. Locally, the expansion of human communities and unsustainable practices (including crops of illegal use) has led to deforestation in the Andes-Amazon transition, associated with illegal trade of wildlife and timber, and unsustainable use of fish stocks. Through strategies that improve people's livelihoods, restoration processes, and support to the environmental authorities for the effective management of protected areas, we seek to reduce deforestation, improve Andes-Amazon connectivity, reduce human-wildlife conflicts and to consolidate sustainable economic activities and value chains.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
Absolute value (STAR)
0.3% of the total biodiversity conservation potential of The Americas is covered by this project.
45.4% of global biodiversity conservation potential is from The Americas.
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.