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    Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

    Peru

    ESEEJA NATIVECOMMUNITY OF INFIERNO

    Empowered live

    Resilient nation

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    UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES

    Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo

    or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth

    their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition

    themselves guiding the narrative.

    To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser

    that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ

    to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models

    replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years

    the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.

    Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.

    EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph Corcoran

    Managing Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding

    Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe

    Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,

    Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Brandon Payne, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu

    DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa

    Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.

    AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the Eseeja Native Community o Inerno, as well as the guidance and inputs o Ma

    Schmidt, Rainorest Expeditions. All photo credits courtesy o Eseeja Native Community o Inerno and Posada Amazonas (http://ww

    perunature.com/posada-amazonas.html). Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.

    Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Eseeja Native Community o Inferno, Peru. Equator Initiative Case Study Series. New Yo

    NY.

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    PROJECT SUMMARYThe Eseeja Native Community was the rst community totake advantage o Perus law o native communities withinthe state o Madre de Dios, receiving legal title to 9,558hectares o land on both sides o the Tambopata River inthe late 1970s. As a condition o deending their lands inthe 1980s, the community was obliged to set aside roughly3,000 hectares as a communal reserve where hunting,logging, orestry, or any other type o resource extractionwere prohibited.

    Since 1996, in partnership with a private sector company,

    the community has jointly managed an ecotourism lodgecalled Posada Amazonas that take advantage o this 3,000ha orest area. Between 1997 and 2007, net revenues romthe lodge totaled more than USD 250,000. Prots havetypically been divided equally among the communitys 500members; in 2000, the community set aside 25 percent orinvestment in education, enabling the construction andoperation o the only rural secondary school in the region.

    KEY FACTS

    EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2002

    FOUNDED: 1996

    LOCATION: Madre de Dios state

    BENEFICIARIES: 500 community members

    BIODIVERSITY: Harpy eagles, giant otters

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    ESEEJA NATIVE COMMUNITY OFINFIERNOPeru

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Background and Context 4

    Key Activities and Innovations 5

    Biodiversity Impacts 6

    Socioeconomic Impacts 6

    Policy Impacts 8

    Sustainability 9

    Replication 9

    Partners 10

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    he Eseeja Native Community o Inerno is an indigenous group

    n Peru whose ancestral homeland is located on the Tambopata

    iver in the Madre de Dios region one o the worlds biodiversity

    otspots. The region is characterized by low-lying Amazonian

    ainorest, and contains a number o endangered species including

    Amazonian turtles, caimans, macaws and the Giant River Otter. As

    with many regions o the Amazon, land conversion or agriculture,

    legal logging, deorestation and habitat loss are clear and present

    hallenges.

    Native Community o Inferno

    he ormation o the Eseeja Native Community o Inerno datesack to 1974, when the Peruvian government passed the Law o

    Native Communities, which stipulated that all indigenous peoples

    n the Amazonian region were entitled to orm communities, have

    heir lands demarcated, and, in turn, gain ormal legal recognition

    inalienable territorial rights. Towards this end, Eseeja joined with

    ther Andean and riparian inhabitants o the Inerno region to orm

    he Native Community o Inerno. While this process o mobilization

    nd constitution took two ull years, the group emerged as the rst

    native community to be ocially recognized within the state o

    Madre de Dios. The community was given legal title to 9,558 hectares

    land on both sides o the Tambopata River.

    Beginnings o community-based ecotourism

    n the beginning o the 1990s, the Madre de Dios region registered

    sharp increase in the number o tourists visiting the area. In part

    t least, this increase can be linked to creation o the Tambopata

    National Reserve, a 275,000-hectare conservation area created

    y the Peruvian National Institute o Natural Resources (INRENA)

    o protect the watersheds o the Tambopata and Candamo rivers.

    During the process o demarcating this conservation area, a section

    the Native Community o Inerno territory was mistakenly added

    o the reserve. The community successully disputed this decision in

    1987, and managed to get the land back within the legal comm

    domain. A condition o the resolution process, however, was

    the area be declared a reserve within the community-based

    management plan. As such, the community was obligated t

    aside roughly 3,000 hectares o land nearly 30 percent o

    territory as a communal reserve where hunting, logging, ore

    or any other type o resource extraction were prohibited. To

    advantage o the unique biodiversity in this communal reser

    an area that had been uninhabited or 20 years the commu

    decided to embark on a low-impact ecotourism venture that w

    at once benet and yet not directly disturb or intrude upon the

    o amilies in the Inerno community.

    Partnership with Rainorest Expeditions

    In 1996, the community agreed to a contract with a private par

    Rainorest Expeditions. The agreement established a participa

    ecotourism project, which had at its centre an Amazonas

    lodge. A 20-year timeline was established to transer managem

    o the lodge over to the community. Until that time, comm

    members would be supported to develop sucient organizat

    and managerial skills to independently run the business. Whil

    community retains ull ownership o the lodge, a prot share o

    percent with Rainorest Expeditions is in place until 2016 to rec

    the costs o initial investment and capacity building. In the inte

    the lodge is run using a co-management model, which is overby a control committee.

    Organizational and governance structure

    The committee maintains an equal balance o the rele

    stakeholders ve members rom the community, and ve

    Rainorest Expeditions. The community contingent is elected

    communal assembly, and meets monthly with the representa

    rom Rainorest Expeditions to discuss matters relating to hu

    resources, nancial needs, and operational issues.

    Background and Context

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    Key Activities and Innovations

    he Eseeja Native Community o Inerno is composed o just over

    00 people, 20 percent o whom are Eseejas, 21 percent Andean

    mmigrants, 23 percent local immigrants, and 34 percent mestizos.

    rior to the initiative, the community was economically poor and

    marginalized, surviving in large part on subsistence agriculture, the

    ollection and sale o Brazil nuts, and small-scale hunter-gathering.

    An overdependence on these activities, and a lack o viable

    lternative livelihood options, was putting unsustainable pressure

    on local ecosystems and natural resources. As a response to these

    hallenges, the community decided to explore the ecotourism

    ector as a means o improving local livelihoods.

    Posada Amazonas

    n partnership with Rainorest Expeditions, the community now

    operates Posada Amazonas, a 30-bedroom eco-lodge which is

    ocated within their ancestral territory, directly adjacent to the 1.9

    million acre Tambopata National Reserve. The lodge was built using

    raditional indigenous architectural designs and materials locally

    arvested wood, palm ronds, and wild cane as well as modern,

    ow-impact technology.

    he close proximity o the lodge to the Tambopata National

    Reserve provides guests with access to some o the Amazons most

    biologically diverse rainorest. Ecosystems ranging rom Andean

    ighlands to some o the last remaining intact cloud orests o theAmazon basin contain over 1,300 bird species (including 32 parrot

    pecies), 200 mammal species, 90 rog species, 1,200 buttery

    pecies, and 10,000 species o higher plants.

    he overall goal o Posada Amazonas activities is protecting

    biodiversity through low-impact, educational tourist activities. The

    ommunity ofers a our-day program o non-motorized rat visits

    o the natural habitats o unique endemic species. Guests at the

    odge are urther ofered rainorest hikes, ethno-botanical walks,

    ight walks and inormation sessions, and arm visits. A 35-metre

    scafolding tower provides easy canopy access or visitors hopin

    view toucans, parrots, macaws and mixed species ocks. In a ne

    oxbow lake, a small population o giant otters as well as cai

    Hoatzin, and Horned Screamers can be observed. Several h

    provide birdwatchers with viewing opportunities or Mealy, Ye

    headed and Blue-headed Parrots, and Dusky-headed Parakeets

    The eco-lodge operates with a principle o prioritizing local mat

    and products, as long as they are o equal quality and pric

    comparable items on the market. Beyond those directly emplo

    by the eco-lodge, this gives the broader community a chanc

    benet rom a new economy and market or their products.

    same principle has guided the gradual introduction o ettourism into the programs ofered to visiting tourists, whereby

    culture is both a source o pride and revenue generation.

    The emphasis on benet-sharing and joint-decision ma

    between a private sector partner and the local community

    noteworthy innovation. These eforts have also been compleme

    by community capacity building measure in business developm

    and management skills. As ownership o Posada Amazon

    transerred to the community ater a 20 year period, all operati

    and managerial positions will be occupied by community mem

    themselves.

    The Eseeja communitys decision to set aside their landconservation, taken many years beore the start o this initia

    permits the joint venture. Partnership between private enter

    and the local community - along with the sharing o benets

    decision-making between the two - is the projects key attribu

    success. The agreement o benet-sharing is productive or

    parties. It is apparent that the community is capable o mo

    rapidly to take a greater share o the managerial responsib

    This is a pioneering efort in indigenous leadership in biodive

    conservation in Peru. The end result is a management appr

    efective in the protection o a signicant area rich in biodiversi

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    Impacts

    BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS

    Conservation activities in the communal reserve have had

    onsiderable impacts on the regions biodiversity and ecosystems,

    protecting some o the richest habitats o unique ora and auna

    on the planet. Community guides that take tourists on excursions

    nto the reserve have reported anecdotally the return o several

    pecies, including macaws, hummingbirds, kingshers, herons,

    oucans, turtles, and monkeys. Increased populations o Capybara

    Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), Harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) and giant

    otters (Pteronura brasiliensis) have also been noted, all o which are

    hreatened or endangered.

    Partnerships or monitoring; conservation incentives

    n the process o establishing the primary components o the

    ecotourism project, the Native Community o Inerno also

    imultaneously developed key alliances with several non-

    governmental organizations and research partners that were

    ctively involved in biodiversity conservation eforts in the region.

    Partnerships in biodiversity monitoring and evaluation have been

    particularly valuable, allowing the community to gather data on

    pecies within the communal area and, importantly, those that are

    exceptionally vulnerable or threatened. Through these partnerships,

    he community has also been able to efectively and accurately

    determine the impact o tourism activities on these species ando use this data to inorm priority conservation strategies, land

    management plans, and independent monitoring.

    One such example has been collaboration with Conservation

    nternational, with whose support the community has set up a

    wildlie monitoring program where community members serve as

    wildlie monitors and gather data. Conservation International then

    nalyzes the data and reports back to the community so that they

    an make inormed decisions on where they should most efectively

    ocus their collective conservation energy. Other monitoring

    programs have been incentive-based, such as the Harpy Eagle

    Watching Program. In this program, i a community member lo

    an active Harpy eagle nest on their parcel o land, they rece

    monetary award a percentage based on the number o tou

    that have the opportunity to view it. The nders ee is paid

    the eagle chick edges, a period that can last up to nine mo

    A consultative process on the rules governing this program

    undertaken in a collective, participatory manner, thereby ensu

    community involvement and ownership.

    Another species that has beneted rom the commu

    conservation eforts and collective management are the

    otters that inhabit nearby oxbow lakes. Previously, this resipopulation o endangered otters were hunted or their pelt

    targeted by local shermen because o their negative inu

    on shing returns. Ater construction o the lodge, communit

    laws were established to regulate shing and access rights o

    oxbow lakes that orm the otter habitats. In co-operation with

    Frankurt Zoological Society, the community was able to esta

    and implement codes o conduct that protect reproductive

    One such code o conduct involved delineation o a special res

    zone, which comprises hal o the oxbow lake area and is of lim

    tourists and community members alike.

    SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

    Just as the numbers o tourists visiting the Madre de Dios re

    have steadily increased, so have the visitors to the Posada Amaz

    lodge. The number o visitors grew rom 2,000 in 1998 to over 7,0

    2007. Posada Amazonas now accounts or a staggering 20 perce

    the tourist market within the region. Because the Eseeja comm

    has been involved in the development and operation o the lo

    rom the very beginning, this success has directly translate

    substantially improved local incomes and livelihoods.

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    Today, most o the wage labour positions at the lodge are lled by

    ocal community members, providing needed jobs, employment

    opportunities and a capacity building platorm. From 1997 to

    2007, the 60 percent o net prots that went to the community

    Rainorest Expeditions taking the other 40 percent amounted to

    an impressive USD 662,225. This number does not include all o the

    community benets and additional returns rom the sale o local

    construction materials, handicrats, or agricultural goods. It is not an

    exaggeration to state that the eco-lodge has both substantially andpositively reshaped the local economy.

    Contributions to local wellbeing

    A percentage o revenues rom the eco-lodge have been invested

    nto social support projects such as an emergency health und,

    elderly care and support services, and loans and scholarships or

    youth wishing to pursue higher education. The remaining prots are

    plit among the 150 amilies in the community, and have increased

    rom USD 150 per household in 2001 to USD 805 in 2007. Guides

    are among the biggest earners rom the project, with an additional

    ncome o USD 195,894 between 1997 and 2007. This discrepancy in

    earning can at least partially be attributed to the extra tips garneredn these positions. The Posada Amazonas guides have developed a

    world-class reputation or tracking wildlie and birds, and are oten

    handsomely rewarded by visitors or their expertise. Remaining

    evenues rom ecotourism activities are invested into community

    nrastructure projects, such as a secondary school, a computer

    acility, road access, and potable water well and tank system.

    The response by the community to the ecotourism initiative

    been avourable, perhaps even beyond expectations. While

    Eseeja were no strangers to tourism, as tour boats have passe

    and down the adjacent river or the past 25 years, the inten

    rom the outset was that the introduction o ecotourism to

    community be gradual. At the beginning o the project,

    community member received an induction course on ecotou

    and the kinds o training that would be available at the lodge.

    consequence, community members project a eeling o ownein and pride over the ecotourism activities.

    Looking to extend spillover success rom Posada Amazonas

    community has ormed committees to work on strategic p

    or sectors such as agriculture, education, healthcare, handic

    and cultural rejuvenation. In 2000, rather than simply divi

    ecotourism prots between members, the community had

    oresight to set aside 25 percent or investment in education.

    initial investment enabled the education committee to cons

    the only rural secondary school in the Puerto Maldonado

    The handicrats committee has also made signicant strides

    relatively modest amounts o investment by the community. T

    have resurrected traditional handicrat techniques, built a worksorganized trainings, and have drated a marketing strategy

    improve coordination and communication between the va

    committees, and to limit misunderstandings or any compet

    that might develop or resources or investment, the communit

    appointed two liaison personnel.

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    Strategies or sustainability

    he revenue potential o the Posada Amazonas is, however,

    tarting to reach its peak, both in terms o employment and prot

    maximizations. Multiplication o the projects positive economic

    mpacts is becoming a challenge. The architects o the initiative

    ave attempted to solve this problem by connecting amilies in

    he community with alternate employment opportunities, outside

    he tourism sector, or at least peripherally associated. The moreuccessul o these eforts have included an ethno-botanical center, a

    ort, a handicrat workshop, a ruit processing center and a sh arm.

    he ethno-botanical center, or example, creates annual revenues o

    USD 12,000 rom its medical services alone.

    While the initiative has had an overall positive impact on the

    ommunity, it has also come with its share o challenges. Primary

    mong these have been the income disparities it has created within

    he community. Particularly when the project rst began, income

    isparities and diferences in employment access suraced racial

    ensions between mestizos and the Eseeja. Higher incomes in some

    egments o the local population have also resulted in concerns about

    hit in emphasis rom local culture to a more consumerist liestyle.o too, new income has been spent in some cases on chainsaws and

    es, which are associated with logging and poaching.

    POLICY IMPACTS

    he Eseeja community has had a direct impact on policy making in

    he region, not least o which through its lobbying eforts against

    onstruction o the Interoceanic Highway just orty kilometers

    utside o Inerno. The highway is being designed to connect the

    Atlantic Ocean in Brazil to the Pacic Ocean in Peru, a proposal

    which will drastically alter the geographical ace o Madre de Dios.

    he community has adopted a two-pronged response: rst, it has

    obbied the Peruvian government or recognition o community

    eeds in the proposed area o development; and, second, it has

    stablished strong partnerships with surrounding communities in

    rder to mobilize a united ront.

    n the rst instance, and as one example, the Eseeja community

    pplied in 2003 or a concession to manage lands surrounding

    heir oxbow lake, with its resident giant otter population. While the

    oncession was granted, the government also awarded a shing

    ermit or the same area to a private sector interest. The objectives o

    onservation and commercial shing were not compatible, so one o

    he concessions would need to be revoked. The political negotiations

    hat ollowed required support rom a number o diferentrganizations, including the Peruvian Society or Environmental

    aw. It took the community several months and thousands o dollars

    o convince the government to revoke the shing concession. Their

    ersistence, however, paid of and the joint venture was granted an

    cotourism concession that covered an extra area o 2,000 hectares.

    On the community partnership and mobilization ront, the Eseeja

    ommunity has worked with Rainorest Expeditions to create

    lliances with other communities upriver rom the lodge, and to

    nsure the land between Posada Amazonas and the Tambopata

    National Reserve remains protected. All our communities in

    area which constitutes the entire population between Inerno

    the border o Tambopata National Reserve have been conta

    The community intends to align all communities and secure

    support or the conservation o the rainorest corridor that conn

    them and create a unctional bufer zone to the Interoce

    Highway.

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    ABOVE: Community members constructing eco-lodgeBELOW: The interior o the lodge todaySource: Posada Amazonas

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    Sustainability and Replication

    SUSTAINABILITYn terms o nancial sustainability, Posada Amazonas is in a strong

    osition with an occupancy rate o 57 percent, 20 percent above the

    reak-even point. The lodge provides a 35 percent rate o return on

    nvestment, and there is room or growth in tourism-related trades

    uch as handicrats, ood production, and retail. The initiative is also

    n very strong ooting with regards to organizational and social

    ustainability. Where possible, staf members are drawn directly rom

    he community. Individual employees receive ongoing training, and

    he larger community is being prepared to assume ull control o the

    odge by 2016.

    Community members are trained in basic lodge staf positions,

    ncluding housekeeping, dining services, cooking, guiding, boat

    riving and general lodge maintenance. Positions at the lodge can

    nly be held or a maximum o two years per individual, ensuring

    ccess on a rotating basis to employment and to the transer o

    nowledge and skills throughout the community. The community

    as developed a train-the-trainers program, whereby staf in each

    osition train other community members in their respective tasks

    nd responsibilities. Training and capacity building have also been

    fered in accounting, administration and logistics, and executive

    ositions (marketing and management).

    One specic capacity building activity that will contribute tohe initiatives overall sustainability is a cooperation agreement

    eached with a Bolivian university to create a two-year leadership

    rogram. Between 20 and 30 community members will be

    upported to benet rom a curriculum specically designed to

    oster community leadership. The program will include workshops

    n accounting, gender studies, human resources management and

    more. Specialists will be enlisted to deliver training on communal

    aw, land management, sustainable agriculture, and basic computer

    teracy. From this program, it is hoped that a number community

    eaders will emerge with the capacity and commitment to navigate

    the organizational challenges conronting the community, an

    harness sustainable development opportunities.

    REPLICATION

    To oster the replication o good practices in environm

    conservation and low-impact tourism, Rainorest Expeditions

    established an inormation exchange called Trueque Amaz

    The initiative brings together tour operators and indige

    communities rom three ecotourism projects o compa

    success in the Amazonian regions o Bolivia, Ecuador, and

    These groups met or the rst time in 2003 to pool inormationdraw up a list o best practices that could useully be shared

    other communities committed to similar issues and acing si

    challenges. Community-to-community visits were supported, w

    has enabled the sharing o knowledge and best practice natio

    and internationally.

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    PARTNERS

    he primary partner o the Eseeja Community is Rainorest

    xpeditions, a Peruvian or-prot company operating our ecolodges

    n Peru. In addition to Posada Amazonas, it runs and operates two

    colodges in the southeastern Amazonian Tambopata Candamo

    eserved Zone (Reugio Amazonas and Tambopata Research

    enter) and another in the Andes near Huascaran National Park.

    onservation International and the Wildlie Conservation Societyave been crucial to the success o this joint venture. The MacArthur

    oundation, World Bank, and American Bird Conservancy have made

    ontributions to make the lodge possible.

    Wildlie Conservation Society

    Conservation International (supported the community through

    a jointly developed wildlie monitoring program, which tracks

    the impact o tourism and hunting on the biodiversity within

    the communitys boundaries).

    MacArthur Foundation (USD 50,000 grant).

    Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (supported the Trueque

    Amaznico initiative)

    Peru-Canada Bilateral Fund (Initial loan o USD 350,000 or

    building the lodge and perorming the initial training)

    Peruvian Society or Environmental Law (supported the initiative

    during the application process or the Ecotourism Concession)

    Interamerican Foundation

    Frankurt Zoological Society (capacity building measures

    through the implementation o Codes o Conduct regarding the

    viewing o the endangered giant otters in the oxbow lakes that

    are managed by the initiative)

    American Bird Conservancy

    World Bank (USD 50,000 grant in 2001 or the construction o an

    artisans workshop and training o community artisans.)

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    URTHER REFERENCE

    Video on Eseeja, 2002.Watch here.

    Posada Amazonas websitehttp://www.perunature.com/posada-amazonas.html

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