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Keywords: CATIE’s wildlands program, the La Planada Ecodevelopment Project, Colombia, the Kuna Wildlands Project, Panama, Costa Rican National Park System, other successful examples of the WCS strategy, the Cauca Valley Corporation (CVC), Colombia, the Gaudoca-Mananillo Ecodevelopment

Project, Costa Rica, the Merenberg Forest Reserve and Foundation, Colombia, non-governmental conservation organizations, IUCN’s support to integrating conservation and development, Biosphere Reserves asitesnd World Heritage