6th CONGRESS ON PROTECTED AREAS

Goal:
The promotion of the theoretical, methodological and practical exchange on conservation, planning and management aspects of natural resources within the National System of Protected Areas and in other countries

Subjects:

Planning and management of protected areas

• -Results of the implementation of management and operational plans.
• Results applied to the Functional Zonification of protected areas.
• The Assessment of the Management Effectiveness and its application in planning and management of protected areas.
• Systems of Geographical Information in the planning of Protected Areas.
• Financial sustainability in protected areas.
• The Protected Areas and climate changes: planning adaptation
• Conservation beyond the protected areas: biological corridors and networks of bio-   regional conservation.
• Other echo- systemic  approaches.
• Landscapes as planning units
• Protection and surveillance

Monitoring and species management, habitat and ecosystems

• Conservation of endemic and/or threatened species
• Recovery of species and populations
• Management of invasive species in protected areas
• Sustainable use of species with conservation goals
• Habitat and ecosystems restoration

Communities in Protected Areas

• Community work with communities inside the Protected Areas
• Environmental perception studies in communities associated with protected areas
• Results of participative programs of management and monitoring of biodiversity involving communities.
• Social-economic diagnoses in communities associated with the protected areas.

Protected marine areas

• Results of monitoring and management programs for populations of threatened speciesand of commercial interest in Protected Areas.
• Results of monitoring and management programs in Coral Reefs.
• Incidence of climate changes over marine ecosystems
• Coastal integrated management applied to the conservation of Protected Marine Areas
• Planning of coastal –marine protected areas and in deep waters

Tourism and public use

• Tourism in protected areas
• Ecotourism and environmental interpretation
• Public use, Ecotourism and Conservation
• Environmental interpretation as a tool of public use in protected areas.
• Protected areas as a scenario for tourism of adventure
• Impacts of visitors in protected areas
• Nature Photography as an ally in the protected areas

Main Organizing Entity:

National Centre of Protected Areas of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment

Contact:
Dr. Maria A. Castañeira Colome  
Phone: (537) 202 7970
FAX: (537) 2040798
E-mail: mary@snap.co.cu