The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is supporting a proposal to secure for this endangered species the highest level of protection under CMS while strengthening international cooperation across its range in the Amazon, Orinoco, and Pantanal river basins.

Proposal 30.2.3 would list the giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) on both Appendix I and Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), as governments prepare to convene for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP15) in Campo Grande, Brazil, from March 23–29.

More than 30 park rangers from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname gathered in Lima to complete the final training and evaluation of the World Bank–led Amazon Sustainable Landscapes (ASL) Regional Park Rangers project. The innovative initiative seeks to strengthen skills to better equip rangers to respond to the complex and evolving challenges they face on the ground.