Our first report card in South America - The Orinoco River Basin, Columbia

IAN is venturing into South America as part of a fantastic new partnership with World Wildlife Fund. Simon Costanzo headed to Cali, Colombia, to plan report cards for three Colombian tributaries of the Orinoco River – the Meta, Bita and Guaviare Rivers. The 1,330 mile long Orinoco River is considered to be the third most important river system in the world with a watershed of 340,000 sq mi spanning Colombia and Venezuela and discharging into the Atlantic Ocean. These three report cards represent a pilot of a standardized approach, that if successful will be expanded to other WWF priority rivers around the world, such as the Mekong River in Cambodia. Stakeholder workshops in May and July 2015 will formally kick off the report card development in Colombia, with release planned for early 2016.

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