INTERAMERICAN BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION NETWORK IABIN Marine Protected Areas
"INTER-AMERICAN BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION NETWORK (IABIN)" Marine Protected Areas Management Effectiveness 1 st IABIN Caribbean Meeting Sarita Williams-Peter March 10 -13, 2008 Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Methodology 2. ) 16 new data fields of interest were added to the exiting 19 fields for a total of 36 fields
Data fields exist in MPA Global -- WDPAs MPA name Designation type MPA location (country or territory) Central latitude & longitude MPA boundary data (prefereably as a zipped ESRI shapefile or interchange file) Date MPA was designated (yyyy-mm-dd) Name & year of legislation/agreement used to designate the MPA Total area of MPA (including land)
New data fields added -- Unique for Caribbean 12 Countries Reason(s) for designation of MPA Is the MPA part of a larger spatial marine resource management plan List up to 2 primary MPA objectives Management plan exists for MPA Start & end dates of management plan List top two critical management activities Budget needed for MPA (USD) Budget available for MPA (USD) Source(s) of budget & values (USD) Number of staff Permanent Temporary
600 MPAs cover approximately 2. 2 million km 2. 6% of the world’s oceans.
Growth global marine area protected areas
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (www. ramsar. org/) has adopted a target for 250 million hectares of wetlands to be well managed in designated sites
Evaluation Methodology Convention on Biological Diversity has adopted a target of 275 million hectares of inland waters habitats to be conserved in protected areas by 2010. CBD report on the effectiveness of 30 per cent of their protected areas by 2010.
We are not going to make 2010 -2012 targets
PA Management Effectiveness Marine Park Global Management Effectiveness Objectives: Provide harmonized Database where trends can be analyzed by park, country, region. Assist countries with reporting commitments. CBD Able to supply consistent data to allow monitoring of progress over time Easy to complete by protected area staff
Synergy IWCAM-IABIN Marine Initiative Referring to data and info section - what is institution housing regional database? Can it include IABIN MP effectiveness database Budget and staffing? What is demo and lessons database? What is data storage facility -- CHM? How does this relate to Program of Work CBD, MEA, and RAMSAR targets. Missing?
Synergies Increase in protected area -- This indicator measures the area of protected land ecosystems, inland water ecosystems, and marine ecosystems expressed as a percentage of the total area of the ecosystem in question. It represents the extent to which areas important for conserving biodiversity are protected from incompatible uses.
2 nd Objective Conservation/Protection of Ecosystems and Nat All TABLE 1. Group want to work with IWCAM on Issues as presented in Table 1. Beach loss, Biodiversity loss, Coral Reef Degradation, mangrove degradation/loss, sea grass, Solid waste mangt.
Caribbean IABIN Group Data compilation, Knowledge management and capacity bldg To complete regional workplan under direction of: Dionne Newell, IABIN Executive Committee – Lead IABIN Caribbean Initiative -- Subcommittee Volunteers: Lakesha & Janine -- Bahamas Jam -- Omar SLU – Sarita T&T – Allan DR-Hispanola – Hector Helena UNEP-WCMC-WDPA
Caribbean IABIN Group Data compilation, Knowledge management and capacity bldg 3 distinct but related IABIN initiatives: PA Thematic Network -- 8 fields for 34 Countries for all PA Marine Initiative -- 12 country database with 20+19 fields as pilot on management effectiveness of marine protected areas Ecosystem Thematic Network – marine terrestrial, freshwater ecosystem database.
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