![]() ![]() In 2011, ICFC established a trust fund to endow salaries for LACC concession guards ( Promotores de Conservación), who carry out patrols to keep out illegal activities from the reserve, conduct biological monitoring, and provide support for researchers and visitors. Now, illegal logging occurs sporadically and illegal goldmining has grown as a threat, Actions & Results: When Los Amigos was created, hundreds of illegal loggers and two illegal trading posts had recently entered the area - a situation that was soon rectified. ![]() ![]() Enrique Ortiz, co-founder of Amazon Conservation Threats: There are over 4,300 recorded species for LACC, at least twelve globally threatened species and abundant Amazonian fauna, including giant otters, harpy eagles, spider monkeys, and jaguars.īy supporting the Los Amigos Conservation Concession, ICFC is helping to protect not only an amazing large tract of intact Amazonian rainforest, but a key area to complete a mosaic of protected areas, the first of its kind, and a model for the new ones to come. It indirectly protects an additional million hectares, including a reserve for uncontacted indigenous people and the flank of Manu National Park. The Los Amigos Conservation Concession (LACC) protects a trackless wilderness of diverse old-growth Amazonian forest from the threats of illegal logging, road development and gold mining. ![]()
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