Durante el mes de noviembre, Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF), en colaboración con la Autoridad de Fiscalización y Control Social de Bosques y Tierra (ABT) y la Universidad Amazónica de Pando (UAP), desarrolló de manera exitosa la segunda versión del curso Herramientas Económicas para la Evaluación de Factibilidad y Diseño de Negocios Sustentables, correspondiente a la gestión 2016, en instalaciones del Hotel Cortez de la ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.  

CSF llevó a cabo en Noviembre un Taller Internacional de Expertos en Incentivos Económicos y Pagos por Servicios Ambientales. El objetivo del taller fue presentar y discutir diferentes temas en torno al diseño e implementación de esquemas de incentivos, con el fin de proporcionar insumos y recomendaciones para la construcción de un Mecanismo de Acuerdos de Conservación que CSF está diseñando para el norte amazónico de Bolivia, en coordinación con Conservación Internacional. Las recomendaciones de los expertos fueron de mucha utilidad para definir puntos centrales del diseño del mecanismo.

Foto: Carlos Solis

Manokwari, West Papua.

CSF conducted a study on the economic impact that São Luiz do Tapajós could have had on local populations if its construction in the Brazilian Amazon had been approved. We analyzed the loss of subsistence income and the impact on two ecosystem services: water quality reduction and the increase of CO2 equivalent emissions. Traditional houses in the Tapajós riverside.

 

Last month, Scott Edwards and I attended the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress “Planet at the crossroads” in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The IUCN Congress is held once every four years, and affords an incredible opportunity for learning, networking and exchange. The scale of the 2016 Congress was staggering – almost 10,000 people attended the 10 day event.

 Infrastructure WG’s participants during the meeting held in September 2016 .

On September 30th and 31st, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and CSF presented the first results of the “Sustainable Fisheries in the Amazon Coast Project" to our partners in São Luís, Brazil. Sixty representatives from government, universities, the private sector, civil society, associations, cooperatives, fishermen groups, trade unions, and the implementing partners attended the meeting. Fernanda Alvarenga introducing CSF´s work.

In early August, CSF and the Chico Mendes Institute for Conservation of Biodiversity (ICMBio), in partnership with the United States Forest Service (USFS), held a four day training on Economic and Financial Feasibility of Supporting Services for Visitation of Conservation Units (Unidades de Conservação - UCs) at the Biodiversity National Academy (ACADEBio), in Iperó, Brazil. Course participants and instructors.