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Colombian Protected Areas as Natural Solutions from a Global Challenge Perspective

Colombian Protected Areas as Natural Solutions from a Global Challenge Perspective JULIA MIRANDA LONDOÑO Director General, National Parks Agency - Colombia Putting Natural Solutions to Work: Mainstreaming protected areas into climate change responses September 7, 2012.

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Colombian Protected Areas as Natural Solutions from a Global Challenge Perspective

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  1. Colombian Protected Areas as Natural Solutions from a Global Challenge Perspective JULIA MIRANDA LONDOÑO Director General, National Parks Agency - Colombia Putting Natural Solutions to Work: Mainstreaming protected areas into climate change responses September 7, 2012

  2. Colombian National Natural Parks Authority: Double Mission • Administration and management of the National Park System • Coordination of the National System of Protected Areas (National, Regional, Local, Communities, Private) • 56 National Parks (12.602.320 ha) • 9,98% of the terrestrial area • 1,30% of the marine area • Constitutional and legal protection: declared perpetually.

  3. Human well being and Protected Areas • In Colombia Protected Areas… • Provide water directly to 20% of the national population and indirectly to 50%; • Provide 70% of the water used for hydropower generation in Colombia; • Provide landscape and seascape for Ecotourism (aprox. 700,000 visitors per year); • Protect Cultural Heritage (26 National Parks are overlaped with Indigenous and Local Communities), maintaining their territories for traditional practices and uses. 3

  4. WELL PROTECTED AREAS AS NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES

  5. Mainstreaming Climate Change in the management of National Parks Climate change Adaptation and Mitigation projects Management Plans including Climate Change National Parks Climate Change Strategy Agreements for using natural resources with locals Restoration, Monitoring and Research New protected areas Capacity building Adaptive Management

  6. Reducing Risks for the Future Protected Areas are facing climate change threats. Rapid glaciers retreat, especially in the last 3 decades with losses between 3 to 5% coverage per year and a decrease in the glacier from 20 to 25m per year. ProtectedAreas are more resilienttoclimatechangethandegradedecosystems La Niña Effects, Colombia

  7. PNN Sumapaz. Ángela Echeverry VP Isla de Salamanca. Giovanny Pulido SSF Ciénaga Grande. Carlos Angulo Well conserved Protected Areas help maintain ecosystem services such as carbon fixation, climate regulation, reduce coastal erosion and as a breeding place for fish/shell.

  8. Water supplies In Colombia we are facing global changethreatssuch as watersourcereductioncausedbyclimatechange as well as soildegradation Wellpreservedprotectedareas are resilienttoclimatechangeoppositetodegradedecosystems. Wetland, NNP Sumapaz- Photo: Angela Echeverry Tropical Forest, PNN Amacayacu La Niña Effects, Colombia PNN Chingaza. Archivo Parques Nacionales

  9. Water supplies Water supply for consumption, hydroelectric systems, agriculture and industry. Thewaterprovisioncompany in Bogotá has invested in conservation of nationalparkstoguaranteeprovisionfor 12 millionpeople. Conservation CorridorChingaza-Sumapaz-Cerros Orientales-Guerrero. Tropical Forest, PNN Amacayacu La Niña Effects, Colombia

  10. The importance of research Research is strategic for improving management in a global change context: In Paramo Ecoystems: significantincreases in maximumtemperature (closeto 1 ° C per decade) Variations, anomalies and gradientchanges (approx.) (Source: C. Figueroa, J. Sabogal, 2010 - basedon IDEAM, 2003). Improving climate information for the National Parks: research on impacts and threats caused by la Niña, el Niño. Importance of climate historic analysis. Iguaque Sancturary Climate Information

  11. Food security Wellpreservedmangroovesgeneratefoodprovisionfor local communities and industries (fish, shell). Conserved Mangroove, NNP Old Providence PHoto: Melissa Val

  12. Progress in ecosystems restoration Actions of ecological restoration have supported recovery and adaptation of damaged ecosystems, and have become a mitigation strategy.

  13. Thank you

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