Asociacion Armonia

Bolivia

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IBAs: 42
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Asociacion Armonia

Asociacion Armonía is the BirdLife Partner

Founded in: 1992
Members: 76
Staff: 23
Address: Avenidad Lomas de Arena 400, Casilla 3566, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Email: armonia@armonia-bo.org

Mission of the organisation

To promote the concept that man and nature are one, through the following means:

• conservation of Bolivia's birds and their habitats through scientific investigation, training courses, and working agreements with other institutions
• diffusion of information relating to the conservation of nature at a national level with special emphasis on birds, to strengthen the process of ecological awareness in Bolivia

Key Activities

• Armonía Distributional Bird Database: Update and Conversion
• Armonía/ Loro Parque Fundacion Blue-throated Macaw Ara glaucogularis Conservation Program
• Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus and Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae Conservation Program
• Bird Conservation Research Centre “Los Volcanes”
• VII. Conference on Ornithology and Bird Conservation in Bolivia
• Bolivian Southern Horned-Curassow Pauxi unicornis unicornis Conservation Program
• Bolivian Swallow-tailed Cotinga Phibalura boliviana Conservation Project
• Cochabamba Mountain-Finch Poospiza garleppi conservation and habitat assessment
• Conservation assessment of the Bolivian Spinetail Cranioleuca henricae
• Darwin Initiative Bolivian Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) Project
• Peruvian Southern Horned-Curassow Pauxi unicornis keoepckea conservation project
• Important Bird Area Program
• Red-fronted Macaw Ara rubrogenys Conservation Program
• Titicaca Flightless Grebe Rollandia microptera conservation project
• Wattled Curassow Crax globulosa Conservation Program

Recent Achievements

• The Ash-breasted and Royal Cinclodes program in La Paz has begun a new project based on working with the communities near the threatened Polylepis forest habitat
• In May we completed the VII Conference on Ornithology and we will attempt to hold the VIII in La Paz for 2006
• The Bolivian Swallow-tailed Cotinga project has funding until 2006 to support more distributional surveys and education programs with the communities of the area
• We have developed an extensive proposal to work within the Polylepis forests of the Cochabamba Mountain-Finch including park guard training and education
• The Peruvian Southern Horned-Curassow project has funding to return to the site in October to continue its education program and to conduct more research
• The Tropical Andes IBA program has just published a book on the IBAs of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela
• The Red-fronted Macaw program begins the creation of a visitors' shelter within a local community near a breeding area
• The Wattled Curassow project is conducting intensive field research for the dry season, and continuing its ecotourism development project