The scale of this work is unprecedented and crosses international boundaries to include Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. WCS is working to build analytical tools,management and policy mechanisms, and partnerships that permit conservation to be planned and coordinated at the scale necessary to effectively manage the complex biological and economic activities of the region. These advances have improved the quality of life of many local people who depend on these species for subsistence. However, these positive developments have also demonstrated the challenges associated with managing complex hydrological dynamics and species that move large distances during their life cycles, and have highlighted the need for management of aquatic resources at multiple scales, from the community scale to the scale of entire hydrological basins.īuilding upon decades of working the flooded forests of Brazil and Peru, WCS has launched an innovative initiative that recognizes the value of fisheries, wildlife, and their aquatic habitats in the western Amazon and the need to manage these resources sustainably and contribute to the quality of life of local people: Amazon Waters.
Important advances have been made, especially in terms of management and conservation of fish and other aquatic species at local scales. Years of conservation and research in the Amazon have deepened our understanding of flooded forest ecosystems and the importance of their biodiversity, including the aquatic forms as much as the terrestrial ones.
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