SOUTH AMERICA
- Awareness raising:
develop recognition of cloud forest issues amongst NGOs, donors and other
interest groups in the region.
- Networking:
activate networking function to support dialogue between interest groups
and improve access to and exchange of information.
- Policy: Promote
a policy theme on cloud forests at the forthcoming International Symposium
on Sustainable Mountain Development in Quito, Ecuador (December, 1998).
Organise workshops on cloud forest conservation with all stakeholders,
taking into account gender-issues.
- Capacity Building:
produce a handbook for education and training uses.
- Research:
a number of priority topics and research sites were identified.
SOUTH
AMERICA: PRIORITY ACTIVITIES
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ACTIVITY
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AWARENESS
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NGOs specialised in Cloud Forest
Regional IUCN Office
Create a logo/symbol for TMCF recognition
Send meeting documents to FAO, IICA, InterAmerican Bank, GTZ, European
Union
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MANAGEMENT
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Social processes research to describe management,
destruction, social & remediation processes
Quito Conference, December 1998-07-08
New Cultural Reserves Categories (Cat. V, and others)
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POLICY
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Policy theme on cloud forests at III International
Symposium on Sustainable Mountain Development in Quito, December 9-14,
1998
Follow-up workshop with all stakeholders (NGOs, Govt., land owners,
guerrillas, local groups)
Policy Conference to consider gender-issues related to cloud forest
conservation Women only meeting
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INFORMATION
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- Ask for a working group to incorporate information
on cloud forests in the Kappelle & Brown Mountain Forest Book
- Identify cloud forest issues
- Revise and update cloud forest directory
- Develop a system/procedure for dissemination and
exchange of information between WCMC and people in cloud forest
area
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NETWORKING
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Web site, links etc
List all groups involved in CF Conservation and establish links
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CAPACITY
BUILDING
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Production of a small handbook for capacity building
with communities, scientists, and women
Establish cloud forest components in university courses in NGOs offering
practicals for students to participate in courses
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COMMUNITY MATTERS
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Consultation and local, voluntary participation in
conservation projects
Develop social exchanges
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RESEARCH
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Into cloud stripping functions, water harvesting
Identify and prioritise sites
Systemisation of methodologies
Diversification of social science methodologies
Need for biologists to be socially sensitive, involve local people
in work & leave samples with schools
Some areas where local communities do not wish for intervention
Researchers with long-term studies
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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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