Founded in: 1997
Members: 300
Staff: 25
Address: Gaetano Martino 215 esq. Tte. Ross, Asunción, Paraguay
Tel: +595 21 223567 or +595 21 229097
Fax: +595 21 223567
Email: guyra@guyra.org.py
Web: http://www.guyra.org.py/

Mission of the organisation

To lead, promote and coordinate progress towards the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, with a special focus on birds, through advocacy, research, public awareness and active community participation.

Key Activities

Recent Achievements

Systematization and digitization of biological inventory data for all of Paraguay’s protected areas, including metadata covering the individual sources. All of the data and metadata are now available online, including nearly 2,000 images of Paraguayan biodiversity
Second national IBA workshop, which completed the identification, delimitation and mapping of 57 IBAs, and subsequent development of a remote-sensing based IBA monitoring protocol
Ongoing action to consolidate the protection of San Rafael (Paraguay’s first IBA). This has included a successful fundraising campaign, with 3,546 ha purchased to date and a further 3,000 ha soon to be acquired, and the hiring of a reserve manager. Through the San Rafael Conservation Alliance, Guyra has supported a suite of other actions, including a private reserve warden system and the strengthening of local enforcement of environmental legislation
An active environmental education program, which has included the consolidation of an SSG in the Paraguayan Pantanal, and a series of outreach activities in communities neighbouring Atlantic Forest IBAs
Guyra has actively participated at a national, regional and global level in the implementation and tracking of environmental conventions, including CBD, UNFCCC, CMS and Ramsar, and has led the development of the national guidelines for CDM projects

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