This research is focused on the advances and impacts from nearly two decades since the adoption and implementation of biodiversity strategies, programs and plans in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Whilst there are many strategies, programs and plans and other instruments that without necessarily referring to biodiversity per se, may be relevant, this research does not intend to be comprehensive of each and all existing instruments. It focuses on those that, according to experts working on the studies of each country, are the most important and relevant. To undertake this research short interviews and contacts where made with a range of institutions: MINAM, INIA, and experts in Peru; MMA, PNELBIO and experts in Brazil; MADS and FAN in Bolivia; and NATURA, Von Humboldt Institute and experts in Colombia.