CENTRAL
AMERICA
- Awareness raising:
promote awareness of cloud forests, particularly their social, economic
and biological importance, through the publication of a popular document
and management/conservation case studies.
- Information and
Networking: co-ordinate the provision of updated information to the
global database; participate in forthcoming national meeting in Mexico
of cloud forest conservation experts in November 1998, and present recommendations
of the workshop.
- Management:
promote activities to link up remaining cloud forest fragments through
restoration/protection efforts, taking into account the ongoing Mesoamerican
Corridor work. Improve management of existing reserves.
- Research:
Identify national institutions to promote research on a number of topics.
CENTRAL
AMERICA: PRIORITY ACTIVITIES
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ACTIVITY
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AWARENESS
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Promote
social, economic and biological importance
Inform the location of cloud forests and the success stories of their
conservation
Target local governments
National media Campaigns
Publish glossary of cloud forest definitions
Materials for pop docs
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MANAGEMENT
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Strategy
to link up remaining fragments
(progress on the ground in Costa Rica)
Improvement management of existing reserves
Develop staffing capacity
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RESEARCH
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Identify
national institutions to promote the necessary research on
- cloud
forest distribution and threats,
- economic
value
- hydrological
importance
- biodiversity
value
- climatological
role
- ethnobiological
values
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INFORMATION
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Collect
more information, update WCMC database
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NETWORKING
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Pronatura
Chiapas organising first meeting in Mexico of cloud forest conservation
experts, November 1998, to establish national network and action plan.
Support international network using Web
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POLICY
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Internalisation
of the cost of using water resources, e.g hydroelectricity, irrigation,
drinking water, to support forest-owning communities
Examples exist in Costa Rica
MESOAMERICAN
CORRIDOR -
Are
plans taking into account cloud forests?
Cloud forests into corridors of reserves
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Philip
Bubb
Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Initiative
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
219 Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
CB3 0DL United Kingdom
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Information
Enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)1223 277722
Main Switchboard
Tel:
+44 (0)1223 277314
Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136
Email:philip.bubb@unep-wcmc.org
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