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(L to R) The Executive Director of the Promotion Fund of the Protected Natural Areas of Peru (PROFONANPE) Anton Willems; the Chief Program Officer leading the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundations Environmental Conservation Program, Aileen Lee; the chief of the National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (SENANP), Pedro Gamboa; Perus minister of Environment Lucia Ruiz; the President and CEO of US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Carter Roberts; and Peruvian tropical ecologist and cofounder and program director of Andes-Amazon Initiative Enrique Ortiz, hold their signed copies of a "Financing Projects for Permanence" compromise to secure a vast territory conformed by 38 protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon jungle, in the Pacaya Jungle Resort in the Iquitos jungle area in Peru, on May 24, 2019. - According to WWF CEO Carter Roberts, this initiative guarantees that up to 12% of the Amazon biome will become self-sufficient, ecologically managed territories in twelve years. (Photo by Cris BOURONCLE / AFP) (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP via Getty Images)