USAID Biodiversity Conservation Programs in Partner Countries

USAID works in more than 60 countries to conserve biodiversity, fight nature crime, and support sustainable fisheries. Explore our work.
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Global map highlighting countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and Caribbean regions with programs receiving USAID FY 2023 biodiversity conservation funding. For more information, explore the regional pages linked below.

Where We Work As of FY 2023

‌ Tier One Countries and Regions

‌ Other Countries and Regions with Biodiversity Funding

C: Caribbean

PI: Pacific Islands

Biodiversity—the enormous variety of all life on Earth—is the foundation for human development and survival. Biodiversity provides food, water, clean air, a stable climate, and livelihoods, supporting more than half of the global gross domestic product. But biodiversity is in crisis. Land and sea use change, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, and invasive alien species are pushing species and ecosystems to the brink.

USAID works in more than 60 countries to conserve biodiversity, fight nature crime, and support sustainable fisheries.

The Agency’s biodiversity programming conserves critical terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, and addresses the illegal and over harvest and collection of biodiversity.

By investing in priority biodiversity areas, USAID helps vulnerable people secure better health and well-being outcomes while managing and conserving their natural wealth. USAID is working at all levels of government, with local communities and Indigenous Peoples, and with the private sector, to increase the resilience of all those who depend on biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.

USAID Global Biodiversity and Forestry Funding in FY 2023

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$375,400,000

Overall Investments in Biodiversity

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$78,100,000

Biodiversity Investments in Combating Wildlife Trafficking

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$318,520,217

Biodiversity and Sustainable Landscapes Investments in Forests and Forestry

USAID Biodiversity Conservation Programs in Africa

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USAID addresses biodiversity conservation in Africa through integrated activities that focus on terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, community-led natural resource management, and wildlife management.

USAID Biodiversity Conservation Programs in Asia

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Across Asia, USAID works with governments, key stakeholders and international organizations, the private sector, and local communities to promote sustainable fisheries, combat wildlife trafficking, and conserve, manage, and restore forests.

USAID Biodiversity Conservation Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

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USAID’s conservation work in Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on reducing deforestation, combating the illicit and unsustainable harvest of timber and wildlife, promoting sustainable fisheries, empowering local communities, and partnering with the private sector to scale conservation efforts.

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Conserving Biodiversity

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Conservation is development. USAID achieves cross-cutting results through programming that protects priority land and seascapes and promotes the security, health, and prosperity of local communities.

Transformative Partnerships for People and the Planet: USAID's Health, Ecosystems, and Agriculture for Resilient, Thriving Societies

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The HEARTH initiative invests across development sectors in biodiverse landscapes around the world to achieve benefits not just for people, but for all species and ecosystems. Learn about the 17 HEARTH activities currently operating in 12 countries.

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BiodiversityLinks

Explore USAID’s conservation projects and technical approaches, and find tools and guidance related to USAID biodiversity programming, at the Agency’s global knowledge portal to advance USAID’s Biodiversity Policy.