APAIPS is the first conservation area with the category of Environmental Protection Area (APA) in Mozambique. It was established in 2012 through the Ministerial Decree 42/2012 of December 12 and if part of the National System of Conservation Areas. APAIPS is the second largest marine conservation area in Africa, covering approximately 1,040,926 hectares.

The Primeiras and Segundas Archipelago consists of two groups of islands, with five islands each, located parallel to the coast of Mozambique. The group of islands in the South (Archipelago of Primeiras Islands) is in Zambezia province while the group of islands in the North (Archipelago of Segundas Islands) is located in Nampula province. This near-continuous archipelago is between the district of Pebane in Zambezia and Angoche in Nampula including the coastal line of Moma and Larde districts.

This environmental protection area includes the Indian Ocean in the East. The western border of Environmental Protection Area is within 10 km from the high tide line, resulting in a terrestrial area of approximately, 205.000 ha. APAIPS includes estuarine areas, mangroves, intertidal areas and rivers subject to tides from Sangage river to Moniga river. This area is equally categorized as a key biodiversity area, KBA. The area is rich in biodiversity, including significant populations of Icuria dunensis, an endemic and endangered (EN) tree species according to the IUCN Red List of threatened species. The area has two complexes of coral reefs, seagrass beds and green turtles.

BIOFUND offers permanent and long-term support, meeting the basic and minimum management costs of this environmental protection area since 2019, with its own funds, originating from a donation from Conservation International/Global Conservation Fund-GCF to the BIOFUND endowment. With support of the PROMOVE Biodiversity program, the aim is to create management and administration conditions and promote implementation of sustainable community based economic activities.

PNAG covers a total area of 453,200 ha of which 286,100 ha is the integral protected area and 167,100 ha are the buffer zone. PNAG is in the districts of Gilé and Pebane. It was initially established as a National Reserve on 23rd April 1932 having ascended to the category National Park in 2020. This area is under management of ANAC through a partnership agreement for technical and financial support signed in September 2018 with International Foundation for Wildlife Management (FFS-IGF). In October 2020, FFS-IGF signed an agreement with BIOFUND to implement PROMOVE Biodiversidade. PNAG is also beneficiary of APEM/Abelha project cofinanced by the French Development Agency (AFD) and BIOFUND endowment. From 2022, it became totally (and indefinitely) cofinanced by BIOFUND through the Post-Abelha project.

PNAG is important for the conservation of miombo forest alternated with vast areas of savanna. It has intact riverine vegetation functioning as a green lung for the Zambezia province.

The program PROMOVE Biodiversidade supports management and administration efforts and enhances community participation in conservation. For that, two agreements were signed, first with International Foundation for Wildlife Management (FFS-IGF) in October 2020 encompassing the support to management and the conservation of the park, and the second with the Network for Environment and Sustainable Development of Zambezia Province (RADEZA) in July 2021, for the implementation of the community development component in the buffer zone of PNAG.

Mount Mabu is a granite massif reaching 1,700 m altitude, located in the Lugela district, north of Lugela river, Zambezia province. It is rich in biodiversity but not yet a legally recognized conservation area. Its richness became known through the Google Earth research conducted by Julian Bayless, hence often called Google Forest. Julian Bayliss, Camila De Sousa, Eric Hermann e Hassam Patel made the first visit to Mount Mabu in December 2005 and since then, a series of international and national scientific expeditions have registered and published information on endemic and new species (news species to science). Relative to vegetation, all studies in Mount Mabu show an extensive humid forest (between 5,500 and 7,900 ha), largely found between 1,000 and 1,400 m altitude. This type of medium altitude forest is increasingly rare in Southern Africa given the deforestation of the last 100 years due to timber harvesting and shifting cultivation. Mount Mabu is a key biodiversity area, a KBA activated for having 17 species under taxonomic groups of plants, butterflies, amphibians, reptiles and birds. From this, nine (9) species - Atheris mabuensis, Dipsadoboa montisilva, Lygodactylus mabu, Nadzikambia baylissi, Rhampholeon maspictus, Iolaus (Epamera) malaikae, Helixanthera schizocalyx, Pavetta gurueensis e Sclerochiton hirsutus – are endemic of Mabu. The PROMOVE Biodiversidade program aims to establish Mabu as a formal conservation area involving the local communities in its sustainable management while improving their livelihoods. To reach this objective, BIOFUND, ANAC and WWF (leader of the WWF-ReGeCom-RADEZA) signed an agreement in March 2021 to create the enabling conditions.