Moises Bertoni Foundation has wide experience in promoting private areas for conservation with national authorities, after more than 15 years of continuous work.
What is the assistance provided by the Foundation to private reserve owners:
Incentives to proprietors
Officially declaring a Private Natural Reserve implies a number of restrictions in the use of resources, so that the reserve can fulfill the established conservation objectives. Being the aim of a Private Natural Reserve to contribute to a National Conservation System, fulfilling an important social role, one of the priorities the Foundation bears in mind when developing its activities, is the search for incentives which motivate proprietors to adhere to this innovative type of civil responsibility by preserving the nature.
There are a number of incentives that an owner can get by agreeing to voluntarily join the national conservation efforts. The Foundation is working at the national level in three main lines:
Financial and taxation
“These are all the incentives which represent a monetary benefit for the owner, by means of a cash payment, a credit or a tax discount”.
Legal y prestige
“These are all the incentives arising from a public or private acknowledgement to the conservation in private lands”.
The concept of Private Natural Reserve as a management category recognized by the Paraguayan State, as well as the benefits established in the Law 352/94, are a result of the coordinated work between Moises Bertoni Foundation and the public institutions in charge of the environmental issues, in the frame of a joint project supported by two international organizations: The Nature Conservancy, within its Program Parks in Peril, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Support and training
“These are the incentives accomplished directly with each proprietor and without money transfers”.
