Scaling up local community-based biodiversity monitoring and incorporating into national management programs Pedro Constantino

Information on biodiversity and its use Pedro Constantino

Information produced by participatory monitoring Model of community-based participatory monitoring Challenges of scaling up to national management

Participatory monitoring in Brazil - overview 2012 ◦ 40 initiatives ◦ 34 in Protected Areas (Indigenous lands + Conservation units) ◦ Local issues ◦ No large scale coordination

Monitoring hunting in Indigenous Lands Constantino Applied Geography

Internal norms Internal norms : Avoid hunting females pregnant or with puppies Avoid hunting with dogs Avoid hunting near villages Hunt more in Peru Delimits the hunting reserved area

Monitoring and internal norms Monitoring and internal norms : Constantino Applied Geography

Local scheme Biodiversity information CBM model Natural resource and protected area management Scientific / Practitioner support

Brazilian National Program for Biodiversity Monitoring Local/regional management of Conservation Units ◦ Formal management agreements (government and communities) ◦ Communities involved in all phases, volunteer ◦ Researchers suggested how to collect data ◦ Data stays in conservation unit, but sent to central government National System of Protected Areas ◦ Researchers defined what and how to monitor ◦ Local participation in data collection ◦ Volunteer participation ◦ Data flow to central government

Scaling-up and incorporating in national management Biodiversity information Scientific support National Government CBM model Biodiversity and Protected area management Dialogue facilitator

Back to indigenous peoples National Policy for Environmental Management in Indigenous Lands (2012) Based on the many initiatives Suggests that natural resources and biodiversity have to be monitored FUNAI and other IP interest in the National Program developed to Conservation Units

Advances

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