In Bolivia, NCI has partnered with Fundación Natura Bolivia, an organization that specializes in the development of financial mechanisms for conservation, such as Payment for Environmental Services. With our support, Natura has successfully implemented an innovative regional water trust fund that gives a direct annual payment to upstream farmers in exchange for the conservation of the cloud forest near the Amboro National Park. This ensures the provision of water to downstream communities, while keeping the forest and its biodiversity intact. To ensure the self-sustainability of the project at the local level, our efforts have helped communities establish funds for the protection of environmental services to which they themselves contribute by way of a small additional charge in their monthly water bill. Natura is currently upscaling the initiative to seven more municipalities which together form the newly created, largely pristine Rio Grande-Cruceño Valleys Reserve.