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REGIONAL SYSTEM OF ANDEAN WETLANDS Fausto López R. Instituto de Ecología

REGIONAL SYSTEM OF ANDEAN WETLANDS Fausto López R. Instituto de Ecología. UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA La Universidad Católica de Loja. Regional System of Protected Areas.

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REGIONAL SYSTEM OF ANDEAN WETLANDS Fausto López R. Instituto de Ecología

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  1. REGIONAL SYSTEM OF ANDEAN WETLANDS • Fausto López R. • Instituto de Ecología UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA La Universidad Católica de Loja

  2. Regional System of ProtectedAreas • Regional System of Andean Wetlands is part of the Initiative: Designing a Regional System of Protected Areas • The Summer Undergraduate Research Program should support the wetlands initiative

  3. AndeanWetlands of Southern Ecuador Yacuambi Fierrohurco Podocarpus Yacuri

  4. Lagunas del Compadre: PodocarpusNational Park MORE THA 100 LAKES NO IMPORTANT THREATS NO LAND OCCUPATION

  5. LAGUNAS DE AMALUZA: YACURI NATIONAL PARK 49 lakes Threats: Livestock, Trouts Forestfires Population: Mestizo

  6. LAGUNAS DE FIERROHURCO Almost 40 lakes MAIN THREATS: Grazing Agriculture Townsclosetothewetlands Population: Saraguro (Kiwcha) Conservation status: No protected Themostthreatened of the 4 systems

  7. Oña – Yacuambi Complex Threats: Livestock, Trouts Road construction MiningConcesions Population Shuar, saraguros and mestizos

  8. GROUPS • Team 1: Ecology of an extreme ecosystem: The Andean páramo • Project 4 - Social and cultural importance of the paramo ecosystem • Jeremy Rausch • Idaho adviser: Chad Hoikstra • UTPL advisor: Fausto Lopez • Support: VerónicaIñiguez and Ramiro Morocho

  9. Team 2: Watershed management of the Andean Páramo • Project 1 - Cultural perspectives on high Andean watersheds. Amy Forsgren • Amy Forsgren • Contact: Fausto Lopez • Support: Ramiro Morocho and VerónicaIñiguez • Project 2- Social-economic impacs of mining and access to land tenure or mining rights • Amy Forsgren • Contact: Fausto Lopez • Support: Veronica Iñiguez and Ramiro Morocho • Project 3 - Evaluating the jurisdictional map of authority over watershed decisions • Danie Merriman • Idaho adviser: Michael Jennings. • UTPL Adviser: FaustoLópez • Support: Ramiro Morocho

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