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Goals: - Developing a Public database on indicators about Protected Areas status, based on the official data provided by the national governmental organizations.

-Training the PA managers and functionaries in Geomatics tools to improve reporting quality and better monitoring practices.

-Strengthening horizontal international cooperation for data, information, experiences and resources to improve conservation in the Amazon basin.

Alvaro Espinel (presented by R.M. Huber)Date: January 2007. Place: DSD-OAS Washington

The Amazon RegionAntecedents (SURAPA, CONDOR)Project Goals and Donor InterestsFirst Workshop Gamboa, Panamá (June2005)Second Workshop en Amacayacu, Colombia (July 2006)Some Strategic AlliancesAcknowledgments

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Index

Amazon Region

> 35% Earth species1.5 millions sq miles offorest2500 tree species (1/3 total)30 k/100k plant species ofLatinamerica2.2 millions sq miles basin4000 miles river length46000 gal/sec 20% total discharge3000 spp freshwater fishes1.5 – 2 millions ha deforestation per year

Tropical Andean PA information is in a Database and linek to infrastructure projects (roads)

Conservation International and Andean Corporation of Development

SURAPA – FAO, EU, CI, ACTO

AAPADPilot Project 2005

AAPADJune 2005 Gamboa - Panamá

Executed DSD -OASA DB updated by thecountry official managersWorkshop in Gamboa, Panamá (June, 2005). Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y VenezuelaNon Official Delegation ofGuyana, French Guyana andSurinameOther institutions:Gordonand Betty Moore F., IABIN , RAMSAR, WWF andParksWatch

AAPAD second Phase: 2006-2008

Second Workshop, Amacayacu, Colombia July 2006

Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationNon Governmental Organizations

1. Organization of American States– Department of Sustainable Development2. Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization-ACTO3. German International Cooperation Agency— GTZ

Inter-NationalOrganizations

Instituto Nacional de Parques -INPARQUES– Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos NaturalesVenezuela

1. Nature Conservation Division– Suriname Forest Service 2. STINASU- Stichting Natuurbehoud Suriname

Suriname

Intendencia de Areas Naturales Protegidas– Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales—INRENA–Ministerio de Agricultura

Peru

Environmental Protection Agency -EPAGuyana

Dirección Nacional de Biodiversidad y Areas Protegidas—Ministerio del Ambiente Ecuador

Unidad Administrativa Especial de Parques Naturales Nacionales –UAESPNN—Regional Orinoquia Amazonia

Colombia

1. Ministerio do Meio Ambiente– Sistema Nacional de Unidades de Conservação MMA—SNUC2. Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e do Recursos Naturais Renovaveis—Sistema de Informação

de Unidades de Conservação –SIUC 3. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia– INPA—BioGeo

Brazil

Servicio Nacional de Areas Protegidas—SERNAPBolivia

Organization ParticipantCountry

Participants Amacayacu

>35 Total 65Colombia

1Germany-GTZ

3Holland

3USA

1Guyana

8Brazil

4Peru

4Ecuador

2Venezuela

NumberCountry

Colaborations and Strategic alliencesNASA – JPL Gary Geller PAA archive

Full coverage of images georef jpg.

ASTER y LANDSATTerra Look (Tool)

U. de Maryland (Dept. of Geography) –Diane Davies (Fire Alarm System)

Environmental Science Research Institute -ESRI

-50 Arc GIS licences

-200 on line courses

- Development of a curriculum online for Park Managers

Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization-

ACTO (OCTA)

Data SharingEvent coordinationSharing ResourcesAdvisory to OTCA on the development of the amazon basin infromation system.

Thank you very much!

-Gary Geller – NASA

-Diane Davies and Minnie Wong – U. of Maryland

-Ryan Valdez- Smithsonian Institution

-Jaime Cavelier, Ana C. Villegas GBMF

-Claudio Maretti – ARPA project

-Rosalia Artega, Francisco Ruiz, Jorge Meza and Carlos Salinas – ACTO

-Jon Nystrom, Charles Convis, Jack Dangermond – ESRI

- Frank Biasi – The National Geographic

-The RANPA network and the park managers of the Amazon Region