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Since 2003, 28 water committees in Honduras's Pico Bonito buffer zone (AJAASSPIB) have bought back degraded land, creating 9 protected areas over 5,453 acres to safeguard drinking water for 40,000+ people, funded by mandatory tariffs, winner of UNDP's 2012 Equator Prize.
AJAASSPIB unites 28 rural water committees across 14 micro-watersheds in the buffer zone of Honduras's Pico Bonito National Park, formed after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and formalised in 2006.
Member communities pooled mandatory water tariffs to buy back and reforest degraded land, creating nine legally recognised community-protected areas totalling 5,453 acres that safeguard drinking water for more than 40,000 people; the model won UNDP's 2012 Equator Prize, though formal government legalisation of the protected areas remained pending as of the most recent published account.
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