How to Ensure Sustainable Development in Peru's Madre de Dios Region? A Path to Transformation

The Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern offers a new approach to pressing issues at the intersection of climate change, biodiversity loss and land use change. In its 2023 Annual Report, it looks back at the fourth year since its creation. Watch this interview with Prof. Dr. Armando Valdés-Velásquez, Senior Advisor at Hub South America.
The Wyss Academy for Nature’s Hub South America, led by Miguel Saravia, focuses on the Madre de Dios region in the Peruvian Amazon. This area faces significant landscape changes due to agriculture expansion, logging, and mining, which are worsened by the interoceanic highway. Such activities pose threats to biodiversity, local culture, and the well-being of inhabitants. To reverse these negative trends, the Hub team collaborates with partners to combine conservation with community needs. Together, they design experiments based on scientific and local knowledge.
Head to the Wyss Academy website to read its 2023 Annual Report: annualreport.wyssacademy.org