Centers for Biodiversity Conservation C ENTERS FOR B IODIVERSITY C ONSERVATION Executive Vice President, Programs and Science Claude Gascon

Centers for Biodiversity Conservation

CENTERS FORBIODIVERSITYCONSERVATION

Executive Vice President, Programs and Science Claude Gascon


WHAT ARE THE CBCs?

Chief programmatic and operational units charged with carrying out CI’s mission

Take into account not just a particular national park or endangered species but entire regions

A framework for transferring to the field the capacity to carry out conservation projects

Vision centered on science, partnerships

and human well-being


WHERE ARE OUR CBCs?

Four CBCs debuted in 2001 and 2002: Andes, Brazil-Guianas, Madagascar, and Melanesia

19 countries; 500 partners; contributing to create or manage 412 protected areas (100 million hectares)

Philippines, China, and Mexico & Central America have begun to transition to the CBC model

Other CI Regional Programs will one day follow


Reflect on the CBCs concept and experiences

Prepare our staff to understand and improve the CBC framework

Encourage exchange of knowledge among CBCs and Regional Programs

OBJECTIVES OFTHIS PRESENTATION


CBC ROADMAP

Centers for Biodiversity ConservationCreate a Regional Conservation Vision

A SCIENCE-DRIVEN APPROACH

Centers for Biodiversity ConservationCreate a Regional Conservation Vision

MULTIFACETED STRATEGIES


CBC ROADMAP

Centers for Biodiversity ConservationDevelop Regional Capacity

CORE TEAM


STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS


LEARNING AND ACTION NETWORKS


CBC ROADMAP

Centers for Biodiversity ConservationGenerate and Measure Value

MEASURES OF PROGRESS AND EFFECTIVENESS

Centers for Biodiversity ConservationGenerate and Measure Value

LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY


CBC CONTINUUM

Centers for Biodiversity ConservationCBC PROFILES


ANDES CBC

Working in a region with distinct national governments, local histories, political and cultural realities is challenging. A key has been the quality of the leadership we have in each country program. By combining expertise in biodiversity conservation with an ability to build consensus with national governments and society, we can have a greater impact on preserving the region’s amazing biodiversity.

Robert Bensted-Smith Executive Director Andes CBC


Endemism: one in every ten of the world’s mammal, bird and amphibian species is only found in the Andean countries. The CBC has created a Threatened Species Initiative that helps conserve 320 species.

Deforestation: Andes CBC and CABS have developed deforestation analysis to compare 10 year of vegetation coverage in the 5 countries. Governments are using the findings for REDD negotiation.

Climate change: As result of complex partnerships, ChoCO2 project in Ecuador attained official approval from CDM and is growing 265 ha of native trees in a KBA of extreme diversity and endemism.

Infrastructure: Capitalize on IIRSA’s report produced by CABS to caution decision makers on potential harm to biodiversity, economic and cultural implications.

Engagement: Collaboration with Roman Catholic Church to save the yellow-eared parrots and their habitats.

Long-term agreements: Chachis receive US$5 ha/year plus technical and planning assistance for setting up a buffer zone next to the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve.

ANDES CBC


Both programs have scaled up CI’s presence in the region since the creation of the CBCs, particularly with the development of a 130-million-ha Guiana Transboundary Conservation Corridor extending from the Brazilian Amazon into Suriname, Gyuana, French Guiana, and Venezuela.

BRAZIL-GUIANAS CBC


Megadiversity: Brazil ranks first in richness for vascular plants, freshwater fish, and mammals with 200,000 species known to science (789 threatened). The CBC has provided long-term technical and financial assistance to projects aiming to protect them.

Biodiversity knowledge: 11 biological expeditions in the Amapa Biodiversity Corridor to help devise the management plan for a 10.5 million-hectare region; and a two-year graduate program in tropical biodiversity at the Federal University of Amapa to increase local capacity.

Strategic alliances: CEPF helped catalyze work with many top Brazilian NGOs, which spawned 292 conservation projects and strengthened a network of over 500 organizations in two corridors of the Atlantic Forest Hotspot.

Private reserves: programs in the Atlantic Forest and Pantanal wetlands spur the creation and management of private commitment to conservation.

Territorial management: supporting empowerment of the Kayapo indigenous people to continue to protect their lands and culture in the midst of the Amazonian frontier.

BRAZIL


Opportunity: To protect ecological and evolutionary processes and to generate revenue by preserving the largest block of intact tropical forest on Earth.

Develop human capacity: With other CBCs in South America, the CBC trains local biodiversity analysts to carry out KBA analysis and documentation, and forest cover monitoring; conducts RAPs with indigenous communities (Masakenari, Wai Wai,) and helps governments position about climate change.

Funding mechanisms: US$15-million Suriname Conservation Fund and the proposed Guyana National Protected Areas Trust.

Community Owned Reserve: The first of its kind with the Wai Wai totaling 625,000 ha in the far-south of Guyana. An important precedent for other indigenous communities and the government, which is now prepared to designate additional conservation areas.

Conservation Concession: a 30-year agreement that protects 200,000 acres of high biodiversity-value rainforest of the upper Essequibo River.

GUIANAS


MADAGASCAR AND INDIAN

OCEAN ISLANDS CBC

One of the original objectives of the CBC model was to create a place where Malagasy conservation professionals can develop a career. We have cultivated a cadre of experts with a deep commitment to conservation who dedicate themselves 100% to excelling at their work.

Leon Rajaobelina

Vice President of Madagascar CBC


MADAGASCAR AND INDIAN

OCEAN ISLANDS CBC

Political will: In Sep 2003, President Marc Ravalomanana made an unprecedented commitment to triple the surface of PAs (target: 6 million ha) over 5 years. The CBC has played a leadership role to design and implement the System of Protected Areas in Madagascar and more than 2 million ha of new PAs have been created.

Climate change: With MacArthur Found. and WWF, the CBC is modeling impacts in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The ultimate goal is the creation of a network of PAs resilient to the future effects of global warming.

Value chain approach: Conduct socio-economic analyses of ecotourism projects in Menabe and Ankehineny-Zahamena to ensure that investments in local tourism directly respond to market requirements and provide benefits to community micro-enterprises.

Nodes: Provides small grants to community associations for activities that directly contribute to conservation outcomes.


The CBC persistence is one source of our success. We’ve stayed in these places through ups and downs, so we’ve gained trust with the local people. They are the stewards, who are doing the conservation work on the ground in many places.

Bruce Beehler

CI Vice President for Pacific Programs

MELANESIA CBC


Cultural diversity: The CBC is spread across 6 countries, thousands of islands with peculiar governing structures, use rights, and conflicting claims where more than 1,300 different languages are spoken.

Biological inventories: RAP expeditions to Papua, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia; with CSIRO, the CBC assessed the habitat of 84 threatened species identifying 60+ KBAs in New Guinea.

Community Conservation Agreements: in YUS, Lakekamu, Papua Barrier, Makira Island and other parts of Melanesia. Residents of the Mamberamo Basin have signed an agreement covering 100,000 hectares of tropical lowlands. With the CBC’s technical help, community members have created maps of their traditional lands and received assistance with conservation planning.

Ecosystem Services: Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessments (MLA) to document what the environment, habitats, and species mean to local communities in Mamberamo. The “natural resources use” maps are used to broker voluntary statements from the communities about how they wish to utilize and conserve their lands.

MELANESIA CBC


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