GLOWS is working with regional authorities and indigenous community organizations in the Pastaza basin to improve the livelihoods of native people while protecting the area’s ecosystems.

Our Vision for the Pastaza is...

• Indigenous communities have legal authority over their lands and the management of their natural resources.
• Indigenous communities enjoy increased economic benefits from the proper and sustainable management of their fisheries resources, applying plans that include management standards and guidelines (e.g. related to gear type, fish-take seasons, etc.), assurances of equity and conflict resolution, and marketing/commercialization support.
• Indigenous people have the skills to monitor the status of water resources and alert appropriate authorities when environmental problems arise.
• Petroleum companies operating in the basin apply best management practices (BMPs) to minimize adverse threats and impacts on the basin’s aquatic resources.
• Indigenous communities and petroleum companies enjoy good relations based on mutual respect, open communication, proper consultation, and full collaboration.
• Increased collaboration between actors on the Peruvian and Ecuadorian sides of the Pastaza Basin facilitates the implementation of IWRM practices.
• Indigenous communities have access to potable water and sanitation facilities.

Provide support to water resources stakeholder forums in the upper and middle Pastaza Basin.

Support for water quality assessment and monitoring activities in the Pastaza River Basin.

Update database for water quality and topographic information for the Pastaza Basin.

Support to small industry and foster public – private alliances for IWRM in the Pastaza Basin.

Disseminate results of water quality assessments in the upper Pastaza Basin, and support the development of solutions to current problems of contamination.

Conduct an initial environmental flow assessment for the Pastaza River, Ecuador.

Implement a self-sustaining, economically viable and low-impact alternative model for the commercialization of aquatic resources by the Kandozi indigenous peoples.

Enforcing fishing regulations in Kandozi Territory (Support the implementation of community fisheries management plans in Kandozi indigenous communities near Lake Rimachi).

Monitoring of water resources impacts of oil extraction activities in indigenous territories.