International projects
The Prince Bernhard Centre initiates, coordinates and executes international research, training and extension programmes in the field of nature conservation in partnership with countries in the southern hemisphere.
The Bolivian Amazon Forest Management Program (PROMAB) carries out research, extension and educational activities to support forest users in the Bolivian Amazon region in the sustainable management of forest resources and the conservation of biodiversity.
Social bees are a major pollinator group, both of the natural tropical flora and cultivated crops. Through their pollinating activities, these bees are of great importance to the tropical environment.
The ‘Proyecto de Manejo de Abejas y Bosque’ (PROMABOS) engages in the management and conservation of forest by local beekeepers through the development of stingless beekeeping in the surrounding forest area of the Montecristo Nature Reserve in the departments of Chalatenango and Santa Ana in El Salvador.
The Trésor Rainforest Project concerns the active protection of 2,450 hectares of rainforest and wet savanna in French Guyana, approximately 40 km south of Cayenne. In May 1997, the area received the status of voluntary nature reserve, and became the Trésor Nature Reserve. The project is run by the Trésor Foundation, a charity linked with Utrecht University, aiming at conserving the rainforests of neo tropical America. The Trésor Rainforest Project is carried out under the auspices of Botanic Gardens Conservation International.