A Biodiversity Conservation Training Programme for the Yaboti Biosphere Reserve
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £141,130
WHERE Argentina
Summary
A strategic sector of the threatened Atlantic Forest protected through a permanent programme of resesarch, training, fieldwork, management plan and Guarani empowerment in the Yaboti Biosphere Reserve (YBR)
UNDP - YBR project, National University of Tucman, CEIBA Ecological Investigation Laboratory Las Yungas, Fundacion Vida Silvestre, Instituto Botanico Darwinion, Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Misiones, Guarani community, MoEM(MINEC) - Argentina
OVER EXPLOITATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, LAND USE CHANGE
Broad Approches
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT, GOODS SERVICES, ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION
Specific Tools
REHABILITATION, PROTECTED AREAS, MONITORING, CEPA, RESEARCH TRAINING
Countries
Argentina
Project Outputs
Institutional framework agreement between staff members and MINEC. Funding arrangements agreed. Equipping of the field station. Inventory of plant species and FacFor herbarium improvement. Accumulated data made available on the internet through IRIS database. Ethnobotanical studies with Guarani people, integrated to qualified rolse, livelihood improvement. Techniques of restoration and bamboo control produced. Biodiversity assessment and monitoring programme in place. Education, training and wide reaching dissemination of information. Including four courses taught in Argentina and four FacFor staff travel to Kew and Eden Project. Management plan for YBR produced. Exhibit produced at the Eden Project.
