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(June 17, 2026)   The Revolving Investment Fund (FIR) for Sustainable Tourism has been officially selected among the 500 best socio-environmental projects in Ibero-America by the prestigious Green Awards 2026 platform. In the Finance category, this initiative ranks among the top eight projects in Latin America. Lilian Painter, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Bolivia Program, explained that the FIR is the result of a partnership built over several years. “The territo...

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(July 02, 2025)   During the Third Fishermen’s Meeting of the Beni River, held on June 28 and 29 in the town of Rurrenabaque, 13 indigenous and local fishermen associations from the Beni River basin signed the fisheries agreement “Fish and Fishing Forever”—a collective commitment to the sustainable and responsible management of fishery resources.    This agreement, the result of a participatory process, includes actions such as the development of a management plan...

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(May 16, 2022) WCS scientists working in the vast Amazon Basin have contributed more than 57,000 camera trap images for a new study published in the journal Ecology by an international team of 120 research institutions. Photo: Robert Wallace/WCS The study consists of 120,000-plus images taken in eight countries, representing the largest photo database to date of the Amazon’s staggering array of wildlife. The images show 289 species taken from 2001-2020 from 143 field sites. The WCS...

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(January 17, 2022) The Plurinational Science and Technology Award is promoted by the Bolivian Ministry of Education. Every year, since 2014, it is awarded to public and private institutions engaged in scientific research. In 2021, WCS applied for this award with the work "Research and Conservation of two endemic primates of Bolivia: Plecturocebus olallae and Plecturocebus modestus", and won first place in the category of Natural Resources, Environment and Biodiversity. This work summarizes 20 years of...

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(December 20, 2021) The 2021 vicuña census, conducted in the Apolobamba National Integrated Management Natural Area (ANMIN) between August 16 and 17, reflected a 9% growth rate in the vicuña population compared to 2019, the year of the last census. These results reflect a greater commitment of the communities to the conservation and protection of the species. Foto: Robert Wallace/WCS “There is more commitment, added to the effort of the park rangers, and the fact that in the pandemic there was less ...

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