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  6th CONGRESS ON PROTECTED AREAS

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

 

 
       
 
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