Biodiversity Conservation Project

In conjunction with the IBRD-supported Native Forests and Protected Areas Project, the project will expand the protected area system through the creation and management of protected areas in currently unprotected ecosystems of global biological significance (eg, Pampas grass lands, Andean Puna, the Chaco, Patagonian Steppe, etc.). The project also includes a public participation plan to ensure widespread stakeholder involvement in project activities, strengthening of institutions and policy, legal and regulatory frameworks at the national and provincial levels to support biodiversity conservation, an internet-connected, national biodiversity information management system, and establishment of a grants program targeted to sustainable development, conservation and awareness activities in the surrounding buffer zones.