Germany commits US$6.5M to protected areas

The German government has come to the aid of Guyana’s Protected Areas Systems (GPAS) with an injection of US$6.5 million for Phase 2 of the project, which was initiated 15 years ago to protect some of the country’s richest biodiversity sites.

Yesterday Guyana and Germany finalized an agreement for €5 million in funding, which will be channeled through the German development bank BankKreditanstaltfurWeideraufbau (KfW) with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, functioning as the implementing agency.

Attending the press conference announcing the grant were Minister of Natural Resources and the