Alternatives for Sustainable Livestock and Biodiversity Conservation in the Garachiné site, San Antonio river micro-basin, Darién National Park
Funded by: Panama Ecological Trust, FIDECO/DARIEN Fund
Executing Entity: GEMAS
Total Amount: B/. 183,145.00
Contribution from the FIDECO Fund: B/. 161,595.00
Counterpart Contribution: B/. 21,550.00
Start date: January 20, 2021
Completion date: July 20, 2022
Program Area: Biodiversity
General Objective: Ecosystem conservation measures implemented, focused on the recovery and protection of environmental goods and services, to stop the loss of biodiversity, generating changes in production models, through comprehensive farm management plans.
Specific objectives:
- Monitor the pressures and threats on biodiversity, to evaluate changes in the conditions of the Focal Elements of management, in the Garachiné site, based on a methodology developed for the baseline
- Ecosystem conservation measures implemented, focused on the recovery and protection of environmental goods and services, to stop the loss of biodiversity, generating changes in production models, through comprehensive farm management plans
Project products:
- Environmental baseline of the condition of conservation objects
- Monitoring protocol prepared and implemented of the focal elements of management at the Garachiné site
- Preparation and implementation of 10 comprehensive farm management plans in the San Antonio river sub-basin and Garachiné site
- Adoption of technology transfer and good practices for climate-smart livestock
- Development of a capacity building process focused on the COVID-19 framework
- Systematization and communication of the project