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Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza – Oficina Regional para América del Sur

Water connec*vity and Protected Areas in South America

Challenges in the implementa.on of PoWPA Prepared by: Gisela Paredes Leguizamon

in collabora.on with Jorge Luis Villa and Arturo Mora (IUCN – South America Regional Office)

Nagoya, 19 October 2010


Program of Work in Protected Areas (PoWPA) Decision VII-‐28.

Na#onal and Regional Systems:

•  full integrated and effec#vely managed

•  ecologically representa#ve considering protected areas

•  contribu#ng to the reduc#on in the rate of loss biodiversity and poverty.

Main large basins and National Parks in South America


Element 1: Planning and management of systems and protected areas

Analysis of representa.ve areas and iden.fica.on of conserva.on gaps:

•  Criteria WATER for the declara.on of new protected areas

•  Establishing of conserva.on targets

•  Defini.on of conserva.on objec.ves of protected areas linked to their environmental services

Basins and largest cities in South America


Example 1: water provision in Quito (Ecuador)

•  Quito (capital of Ecuador – 2 M inhabitants) – 80% of water supply coming from two ecological reserves (Cayambe-‐Coca – 400,000 ha – and An.sana – 120,000 ha).

•  Users: farmers, hydropower companies, industries and households (paying differen.ated rates)

•  FONAG: fund for the management of these rates (USD 7 Million in 2009 – with administra.on costs limited to between 10 and 20% of total expenditures).

•  Benefits: securing present and future water supplies for Quito through the protec.on of 65,000 ha of watersheds (with more than 1,800 people receiving direct economic benefits associated with watershed management and conserva.on) UNEP, 2010

Antisana volcano and city of Quito – A. Mora


Example 2: water provision in Colombia Direct supply of water to 30% of Colombian popula.on

(20 M inhabitants) and indirect supply to 50%:

•  PNN Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: 1,500,000 inhab.

•  PNN Los Nevados: 2,500,000 inhab.

•  PNN Farallones de Cali: 1,500,000 inhab.

•  PNN Chingaza: 5,000,000 inhab.

Provision of water to 12 Irriga*on Districts of big and medium size in 5 Departments (in total 207,849 ha managed by 12,975 users and 147,301 beneficiaries.

Carriazo, F., et al, 2003.

National Park System of Colombia


Connec*vity between Protected Areas:

•  Func.onality of wetland landscapes

•  Management of trans-‐boundary conserva.on

•  Protec.on of fish species

Bañado de la Estrella. Fredy Chavez, NATIVA



Impacts on:

func.onality and hydro and ecosystem connec.vity, as they are considered in Protected Areas planning.

Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia.



EJE ANDINO

EJE MERCOSUR-CHILE

EJE INTEROCEÁNICO CENTRAL

EJE DEL AMAZONAS

EJE DEL ESCUDO GUAYANES

EJE PERÚ- BRASIL- BOLIVIA

EJE DE LA HIDROVÍA

PARAGUAY PARANÁ EJE DEL SUR

EJE DE CAPRICORNIO

EJE ANDINO DEL SUR

Example 3: Impacts of IIRSA


Ports Lineal Project Inter oceanic Canal

Example 3 cont.: Impacts of IIRSA (Hydro way Parana – Paraguay)


Planning of Protected Areas:

•  Plans for management and zoning of basins

•  Management Plans for Safe Water

•  Management Plans of Systems and Protected Areas



Element 2: Governance, par*cipa*on, equity and benefit sharing

•  Governance on access and regula.on of water

•  Valua.on of costs and benefits

•  Advances in recogni.on of water as a right

Titicaca. Gisela Paredes


Element 3: favorable ac*vi*es regarding Protected Areas

Inclusion of the protected areas issue in poli.cal and legisla.on reforms on:

•  Water or Hydro Resource •  Planning/Zoning in Basins •  Incen.ves, economical instruments

to be applied in conserva.on of water sheds or protected areas, etc.

Bay of Asuncion. A. Mora


Thank you / Arigato / Gracias!

For more informa*on please contact: Gisela Paredes [email protected]

References

•  Carriazo, F; Ibáñez, A; García, M. (2003). Valoración De Los Beneficios Económicos Provistos Por El Sistema De Parques Nacionales Naturales: Una Aplicación Del Análisis De Transferencia De Beneficios

•  Cartography prepared by Jorge Luis Villa (UICN – Sur / Water Program) •  Paredes, Gisela. (2010). Análisis de los avances en la implementación del Programa de trabajo de áreas

protegidas en siete paises de sudamerica. •  Sadoff, C; Greiber, T; Smith, M; Bergkamp, G.. ed.(2008). Compar.rCompar.r-‐Ges.onando el agua entre

fronteras. UICN.

•  UICN-‐Sur; APECO; SPDA; LIDEMA/CB ; ECOLEX. Understanding Rapid Environmental Changes in the Southern Tropical Andes.

•  UNEP (2010) Green Economy – Developing Countries Succes Stories – St-‐Mar.n-‐Belleuve, France

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