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Laguna del Tigre NationalPark and Biotope, Maya

Biosphere Reserve,Guatemala

Carlos Albacete

Trpico Verde / ParksWatchGuatemala


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335 080 ha Created in 1990 / 2 management unities /CECONCONAP

Tehuantepec

Moist Forest(TerrestrialEcoregionsDinerstein et al.,2000)

Ib IUCN mgt.category

Ramsar 1990

45 168ha

289 912ha

Central America

Guatemala

2001/03/05/08


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Database Park profile


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Easily accessible

Present to

audiences

Publicize

Update

Advocacy

pressure

Leads to

Changes

Our strategy:

Research

Accurate

information

Science Science & activism

Data base Profile & other materials


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ThreatsRelated to permanent human settlements

Some threats in Highest

range of our methodology


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Deforestation follows the road built for oil exploitation


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Deforestacin anual en la Laguna del Tigre entre 2000 y 2004

5536.98 ha

901.62 ha

6438.6 ha

2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004

Parque

Parque + biotopo

Biotopo

Rising deforestation rates since 1999


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Law enforcement

Personnel and budget

Bruner A., R Gullison, R. Rice,G.da Fonseca, 2001. Effectiveness of parks in protecting tropical biodiversity.Science 291 (enero 2001)

Campaign


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Tapirusbairdii

Added components to the profile

Add d h fil


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Added components to the profile


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2004


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Laguna delTigre

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600000

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Presupuesto2003

Presupuesto2004

Presupuesto2005

presupuesto2006

200497% increased budget

2004

100% increased staff

2006 Return of 10 usurpedlands to the State

2006

New Management Plan

Research 2001

Updates 2003 /2005/2008

Advocacy/ pressure

Changes2004

2003


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300000

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500000

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Presupuesto2003

Presupuesto2004

Presupuesto2005

presupuesto2006

Budget increasesLaguna del Tigre


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Personal/ha

100 % increase


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New zones


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Presentations, advocacy and media

Designed as a marketing campaign with measurable and

verifiable goals and dates

Preparing materials to be easily understandable

Media strategy

Longer timing than the evaluation by itself (40 % vs. 60 %)

Key aspects

Proposing solutions

Facilitated the decision making process Useful to monitor our own theory of change

Flexible methodology

Identification of audiences

Using new tools that help better understand the problem (maintaining our

protocol)

Independent evaluation

Facilitated the understanding of problems and pressure activities

Periodical monitoring of the area

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