The vision of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Project (ARPA) is to create a mosaic of protected areas around productive landscapes to maintain the ecological integrity of the region over the long term. 

The project aims to add  28 million hectares in new protected areas (PAs) in the Brazilian Amazon over the next 10 years, while helping to consolidate the existing protected areas system. This will result in a total of 50 million hectares of Amazon forested ecosystems under protection and sustainable use, an area the size of Spain.

The program is being implemented in three phases. The first (ongoing) phase seeks to:

• Create 18 million hectares of new protected areas using a conservation mosaic approach
   
• Consolidate the management of existing and newly created PAs
   
• Establish and operate a fund to meet the recurrent costs of managing PAs
   
• Establish and operate a biodiversity monitoring and evaluation system

The second two phases will aim to establish an additional 19 million hectares of new strict protection PAs, consolidate management of the existing PAs, and support their long-term sustainability.

ARPA has already achieved a number of results:

• 15 million hectares of new protected areas decreed
   
• A Protected Areas Fund established and endowed with $8 million
   
• Relationships established between ARPA and key stakeholders throughout the Brazilian Amazon
   
• Processes established to allow funding to reach isolated protected areas