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Scaling up local community-based biodiversity monitoring and incorporating into national management programs. Pedro Constantino plconstantino@gmail.com. Information on biodiversity and its use. Pedro Constantino. Challenges of scaling up to national management.
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Scaling up local community-based biodiversity monitoring and incorporating into national management programs Pedro Constantino plconstantino@gmail.com
Information on biodiversity and its use Pedro Constantino
Challenges of scaling up to national management • Information produced by participatory monitoring • Model of community-based participatory monitoring
Participatory monitoring in Brazil - overview • 2012 • 40 initiatives • 34 in Protected Areas (Indigenous lands + Conservation units) • Local issues • No large scale coordination
Monitoring hunting in Indigenous Lands Constantino 2015. Applied Geography
Internal norms: • Avoid hunting females pregnant or with puppies • Avoid hunting with dogs • Avoid hunting near villages • Hunt more in Peru • Delimits the hunting reserved area
Monitoring and internal norms: Constantino 2015. Applied Geography
Local scheme Natural resource and protected area management CBM model Biodiversity information Scientific / Practitioner support
Brazilian National Program for Biodiversity Monitoring • Local/regional management of Conservation Units • Formal management agreements (government and communities) • Communities involved in all phases, volunteer • Researchers suggested how to collect data • Data stays in conservation unit, but sent to central government • National System of Protected Areas • Researchers defined what and how to monitor • Local participation in data collection • Volunteer participation • Data flow to central government
Scaling-up and incorporating in national management Biodiversity and Protected area management CBM model Biodiversity information National Government Dialogue facilitator Scientific support
Back to indigenous peoples • National Policy for Environmental Management in Indigenous Lands (2012) • Based on the many initiatives • Suggests that natural resources and biodiversity have to be monitored • FUNAI and other IP interest in the National Program developed to Conservation Units
Advances www.pmmpartnership.com