Other sources include relatively limited amount of environmental compensation, national and international donations and revenue from tourism and sustainable forestry (Sections 5.1 and 5.2). This is true in many Latin American countries, although Brazil exhibits one of the highest levels of reliance on government budget outlays, which makes funding vulnerable to external factors and political negotiations (Bovarnick et al., Brazil should develop an integrated financial strategy to guarantee more efficient and effective use of resources for protected areas and for biodiversity policy more generally, and further explore alternative funding sources. These may include payments for ecosystem services (e.g. water supply and carbon sequestration), revenue from access fees to protected areas, branding and sale of merchandise, and part of the revenue from royalties, from financial compensation paid by hydropower plant and mine operators and from benefits generated from access to genetic resources (Chapter 4).