Community-based conservation of coastal-marine biodiversity in Honduras

This project aims to improve biodiversity and key ecosystem health along Honduras’ Atlantic and Pacific coasts using nature-based solutions. It responds directly to Canada’s commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to safeguard and restore biodiversity. The project focuses on people dependent on these ecosystems particularly women youth and Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples whose livelihoods remain threatened by climate change habitat loss and ecosystem degradation. Project activities include: (1) strengthening protected areas governance and management; (2) restoring ecosystems and recovering threatened species through nature-based solutions; (3) improving agroforestry agriculture ecotourism and cattle ranching sustainability through model nature-based solutions; (4) strengthening public sector biodiversity policy framework; and (5) enhancing women’s empowerment and Indigenous people’s rights.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved gender-responsive and rights-based protection of natural coastal-marine ecosystems using nature-based solutions with benefits especially for local women and girls and indigenous peoples; (2) improved gender-responsive and rights-based sustainable use of productive coastal-marine ecosystems implementing nature-based solutions benefiting especially local women and girls and indigenous peoples; and (3) improved gender-responsive and rights-based restoration of productive coastal-marine ecosystems implementing nature-based solutions benefiting especially local women and girls and indigenous peoples.