ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CONTENTS 46 DONATIONS 72 LEGAL 85 SPECIAL UNIT OBLIGATIONS PROJECTS UNIT UNIT 3 Letter from the CEO 47 COPAÍBAS 62 GEF TERRESTRE 73 FRANCISCANA 86 SUZANO 4 Perspectives Community, Protected Areas Strategies for the CONSERVATION Emergency Call Support 5 FUNBIO 25 years and Indigenous Peoples Project Conservation, Restoration and Conservation in Franciscana 87 PROJETO K 6 Mission, Vision and Values in the Brazilian Amazon and Management of Biodiversity Management Area I Knowledge for Action 7 SDG and Contributions Cerrado Savannah in the Caatinga, Pampa and 76 ENVIRONMENTAL 10 Timeline 50 ARPA Pantanal EDUCATION 16 FUNBIO Amazon Region Protected 64 ATLANTIC FOREST Implementing Environmental GEF AGENCY 16 How We Work Areas Program Biodiversity and Climate Education and Income- 88 17 In Numbers 53 REM MT Change in the Atlantic Forest generation Projects for FUNBIO 20 List of Funding Sources 2020 REDD Early Movers (REM) 65 PROBIO II Improved Environmental 21 Organizational Flow Chart Global Program – Mato Grosso Opportunities Fund of the Quality at Fishing 89 PRO-SPECIES 22 Governance 56 TRADITION AND FUTURE National Public/Private Communities in the State National Strategic Project 23 Transparency IN THE AMAZON Integrated Actions for of Rio de Janeiro for the Conservation of 24 Ethics Committee 57 KAYAPÓ FUND Biodiversity Project 78 MARINE AND FISHERIES Endangered Species 25 Policies and Safeguards 59 A MILLION TREES FOR 67 AMAPÁ FUND RESEARCH 26 National Agencies FUNBIO THE XINGU 68 ABROLHOS LAND Support for Marine and 91 GFC AGENCY 28 Who We Are 60 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN AND SEA FUND Fisheries Research in the State 32 In the Media CONSERVATION 69 GEF MAR of Rio de Janeiro Project FUNBIO 35 Diversity in Conservation Partnership: Forest Restoration Marine and Coastal 81 SUPPORT TO PAs 40 FUNBIO Grants – Conserving for Golden Lion Tamarin Protected Areas Project Conservation and Sustainable 92 READINESS the Future Conservation 70 SEA GARBAGE IN SP Use of Biodiversity in Federal 61 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN Sea Garbage Monitoring and Coastal and Estuarine 93 Credits PROJECT Assessment Plan, São Paulo Protected Areas in the Partnership for the States of Rio de Janeiro Implementation of a Golden and São Paulo Lion Tamarin Ecological Park 82 WINDOWS ONTO THE RESTINGA DE BERTIOGA STATE PARK 83 GREEN AGAIN Nature Conservation Program in Volta Redonda 84 TCSA PORTO SUL INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 3 LETTER FROM Throughout 2020 we saw predictability Technological acceleration also had and continuity largely replaced by agility an impact on project calls, which are and adaptability. Locally and globally, now done entirely through digital the covid-19 pandemic posed a whole channels. Technology ushered in new new set of challenges and showed, practices in other areas too, with the THE CHAIRMAN among other things, the relationship introduction of distance training, between environmental balance, risks digital information modules, and and opportunities. We watched in ’lives’ to clear up any possible surprise as wild animals returned to our doubts proponents may have. urban spaces, listened attentively to the scientists’ warnings about the danger This unusual year was also marked of outbreaks of new viruses hitherto by solidarity: thanks to the Resilience, contained within pristine environments, exceptional support of some of the and we accompanied enthusiastically largest programs under FUNBIO’s the emphasis placed by governments management, PPEs and basic food worldwide on the necessity for clean baskets were distributed among solidarity and energy and ESG investing. Amid so riverine communities in the Amazon much uncertainty and loss, there and to remote fishing and indigenous was a need for reflection. settlements. The ARPA Program alone responses distributed 2,800 food baskets to Faced with the pandemic, FUNBIO over 160 communities. This drive reacted swiftly and serenely: in a helped support people who had lost matter of days, we implemented the their income sources due to covid-19 ’anywhere office’ concept, which restrictions, or who would have had permitted remote access to data to travel into urban environments to previously only available on the buy what they needed. premises. Adopting a home office regime afforded greater safety to In the future, when we look back FUNBIO’s most important asset: its on this year, we will certainly work force. And initial assessments mourn our losses, but we will also indicate that our concerted effort see the resilience, solidarity and translated into maintained levels of rapid-response capacity that makes productivity and engagement. humanity so unique. — José Berenguer Chairman of the Deliberative Board, FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 4 PERSPECTIVES In 2021 we celebrated a quarter include the consolidation of state- of a century in activity: 25 years run protected areas, the bioeconomy working to conserve the future. A and support for indigenous peoples future that will require the recovery in the Cerrado. By encouraging the of a planet severely affected by the sustainable use of biodiversity and covid-19 pandemic in 2020, a year strengthening PAs, widely recognized also drubbed by sporadically extreme as one of the most effective climatic conditions worldwide. conservation tools, COPAÍBAS will For FUNBIO, this reconstruction be a significant step toward building will combine the experiences and a long-term protection network knowledge amassed over the last for the most biodiverse savannah two and a half decades with the on the planet. Knowledge and recent lessons learned from the most unusual year that was 2020. COPAÍBAS also strengthens partnerships in states that have The next steps on this journey will resolutely expressed their commitment lessons learned from be guided by a carefully constructed to environmental conservation five-year plan that will fine-tune ideas, projects and actions. Among and steer our work so that we can the examples is the Consortium of an unusual year obtain increasingly agile results with Amazonian Governors, which plans to higher impact on sociobiodiversity consolidate its standing as a regional conservation. New technologies and solutions forum in 2021. These modes of collaborating and working, partnerships also reach across to the partnerships with different segments, Atlantic Forest, in conjunction with and the perfecting of user experiences the state government of Bahia. are among the opportunities that warrant attention. In 2020, priorities had to be reset, paving the way for a much needed In the years to come we will also roll global reorganization. If history speaks out a relief-bringing initiative that will of an explosion of vitality in the wake see some of our vast experience in the of the Spanish Flu, our hope is that, Amazon applied to Brazil’s very own this time too, the post-pandemic savannah, the Cerrado. The COPAÍBAS period gives rise to an essential and program, supported by the Norwegian energetic celebration of life and Embassy in Brazil, will work in both prioritization of the environment of these biomes, on fronts that as a pillar of human wellbeing. — Rosa Lemos de Sá Secretary-General of FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 5 FUNBIO 25 YEARS FUNBIO is an example of transparency, efficiency and innovation for other RedLAC members. In 25 years it has built a legacy and has worked to promote ties within the region, leading to strong partnerships that have become FUNBIO turns 25 displaying a solid, friendships. It has achieved outstanding impact and has successful blend of innovation, “ contributed to more resilient and creative conservation experience and effort devoted to finance. Congratulations, FUNBIO!” conservation. Each day that passes ZDENKA PISKULIC, RedLAC presidente “it builds upon its capacity to connect people, disciplines and interests that generate opportunities and converge upon solutions. An institution geared towards the future, attentive to the present, and that values the past.” JOSÉ BERENGUER, Chairman of FUNBIO’s Deliberative Board We know that FUNBIO has the structure to manage large projects and we’re delighted to be able to support the institution on yet another initiative.” “NILS MARTIN GUNNENG, Norwegian ambassador to Brazil INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 6 Mission Vision Values To provide strategic resources for biodiversity To be the benchmark in enabling strategic FUNBIO is guided by the following values: conservation resources and solutions for the conservation of biodiversity — Transparency — Ethics — Effectiveness — Receptiveness — Independence Intellectuality — Innovation INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 7 SDG AND The conservation initiatives FUNBIO supports work toward the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the National Action Plan and Strategy for Biodiversity (EPANB, in Portuguese). In this CONTRIBUTIONS report, projects with a bearing on the SDGs, Brazil’s NDCs, or the EPANB are flagged with the respective icons. Sustainable Nationally The National Development Determined Biodiversity Strategy Goals Contribution and Action Plans (SDGs) (NDC) (NBSAP) In 2015, the United Nations (UN) announced that That same year, Brazil submitted its Nationally The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans its member states were adopting 17 Sustainable Determined Contribution (NDC), a country- – NBSAP is intended to promote the conservation Development Goals in order to protect the planet,