June 20, 2008CATIE, Costa Rica

Participants’ Presentations

Summary

Participants’ Presentations

Summary

Mobile Seminar on Protected Area

Planning and Management

Mobile Seminar on Protected Area

Planning and Management

Protected Areas SystemsProtected Areas Systems

• Cambodia Protected Areas System and Protected Forests

• Ecuador National Protected Areas System

• Fiji: Natural Trust of Fiji Islands

• Guatemala Protected Area System

• Guyana Protected Areas System

• Liberia Protected Areas Network

• Peru Protected Areas System

• Suriname Protected Areas System

History, current coverage, management categories, institutional and legal aspects, funding issues

Challenges and opportunities

Conservation strategies (tools for protecting sites)Conservation strategies (tools for protecting sites)

Conservation Concessions Upper Essequibo River, Guyana Alto Huayabamba, Peru

Conservation Lease and Trust Fund Sovi Basin Conservation Area

Community Conservation Areas Community Owned Conservation Area

(Konashen COCA, Guyana) Community Conservancy (Botanical Landscape

World Heritage Site - Richtersveld Community Conservancy)

Indigenous Protected Area Werehpai (Southern Suriname)

Private Reserves Private Conservation Area, Peru Conservation Agreements (Stewards Program)

Guatemala

PA planning and managementPA planning and management

Liberia: Sapo National Park: infrastructure development, law enforcement, community outreach, ecotourism, monitoring, capacity building, long-term financing mechanism, eco-friendly economic ventures

Cambodia: Central Cardamoms Protected Forest: law enforcement, forest protection, community engagement, participatory land use planning, information, education and communications, research and monitoring, ecotourism, government relationships Kanuku

Guyana: Mountain Protected Area: PA delineation and management plan

PA planning and managementPA planning and management Suriname: Indigenous Protected Area Werehpai: Biodiversity data gathering

(camera trapping and surveys with community involvement), management planning, monitoring of threats: biofuels, gold mining (small scale), industrial mining (bauxite, gold), KBA analysis

Fiji: Sigatoka Sand Dunes, institutional and financing issues

Bolivia: Ecotourism Project - Green Destination 2007: improving small businesses capacity building of managers and guides, community based ecotourism enterprises, best practices in ecotourism, marketing, etc.

Ecuador: Galapagos Marine Reserve: governance scheme, zoning, management challenges

Conservation corridors planning and actionsConservation corridors planning and actions

Abiseo Condor Kutuku Corridor (Peru-Ecuador) Vilcabamba-Amboró Conservation Corridor (Peru-Bolivia)

Land use planning Regional Forestry Plans Environmental services (possible payments) Eco-businesses Conservation of Natural and Cultural Diversity

Choco-Manabi Conservation Corridor (Ecuador-Colombia) Regional and local planning Protected areas management and endangered species conservation Biodiversity-friendly practices Alliances and partnerships

We really look forward to continue working with you

all!!

We really look forward to continue working with you

all!!

Congratulations for the wonderful job!

Congratulations for the wonderful job!