Strengthening Conservation in Private Lands from the Central Coastal Range of Venezuela

Ecosystem protection

2020

by Universidad Simón Bolívar

Strengthening Conservation in Private Lands from the Central Coastal Range of Venezuela

Strengthen the Conserved Areas of the Venezuelan Central Coastal Range, through the exchange of experiences and knowledge, providing management effectiveness workshops, the promotion of strategic alliances between managers of conserved areas and networking integration to establish mechanisms for Early Alerts to facilitate law enforcement and control by environmental authorities, as well as to promote the creation of other effective conservation initiatives and legal mechanisms that generate economic and social environmental benefits for local communities.

Update and expand the database of Conserved Areas (CAs) developed at the PA Laboratory of Simón Bolívar University. Implement a Rapid Assessment of PA Management Effectiveness in all of the CAs of major interest. Systematization of assessment and presentation of the results through workshops to foster alliances and exchange experiences and knowledge, with the purpose of establishing and consolidating a CA ?s network. After the network is consolidated, workshops will be developed together with local environmental authorities and stakeholders to recognize the role of CAs and to establish channels for the implementation of local Early Alert System of environmental illicities.

Name organisation:

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Start date:

01-06-2020

Funding:

€10000

Country/Territory:

Venezuela

Name organisation:

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Start date:

01-06-2020

Funding:

€10000

Country/Territory:

Venezuela

Recognize, strengthen and replicate the voluntary efforts made by Conserved Areas

The Central Coastal Range of Venezuela is the most densely populated area in the country. However, it contains important biological endemisms. Currently, Venezuela is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, leading to accelerated degradation processes to obtain wood, land for housing, short-lived crops, cattle and mining.

Therefore, it is necessary to recognize, strengthen and replicate the voluntary efforts made by Conserved Areas, which are currently being undertaken by non-governmental organizations, universities, individuals and communities.

We want to encourage the exchange of experiences and knowledge, providing management effectiveness workshops, the promotion of strategic alliances between managers of conserved areas and networking integration. All this with the aim to establish mechanisms for Early Alerts to facilitate law enforcement and control by environmental authorities, as well as to promote the creation of other effective conservation initiatives and legal mechanisms that generate economic and social environmental benefits for local communities.