Latin America
Integrating activities for conservation and development through people's participation and collaboration among different institutional and social actors is being increasingly recognized as the most promising approach to sustainable natural resource management. This document describes and discusses the experience in this area of the Inter-regional Project for Participatory Upland Conservation...
The world is three-quarters water and the Latin American and Caribbean region is considered to have comparatively greater availability of this resource: an estimated 30% of the world's fresh water. But human activities are besieging this wealth of water, threatening both its quality and quantity.
Ecuador is not unfamiliar with this reality. The internal water resources available...
Ststistics on population (2001) for Peru.
One of South America's most endangered forest ecosystems is the Polylepis forests (los bosques de kehuiña) in the Andean highlands. In Bolivia only about 650 km2 of Polylepis is left - down from an estimated potential distribution of 40.000 km2. The highland forests serves as important water catchment areas by "combing" humidity out of clouds and fog, and by...
The Andes and the Himalayas are the two most massive and extended mountain ecosystems in the world. Despite some important geographical differences between them, they share many commonalities. In addition, they have both witnessed the development of ancient and complex civilizations and are currently inhabited by rural communities that carry an ancient heritage including traditional patterns...
In Argentina, actions for the conservation of the vicuña have, until now, concentrated on regulating the commercialization of this species' valuable fiber. Even so, illegal commerce continues: in April 2000, the Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Province of Salta (SMADS), in the Northwest of the country, had seized 65 Kg (143 pounds) of fiber taken from 213...
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