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GEF-4 Tracking Tool for Biodiversity Focal Area Strategic Objective One:
Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Area Systems
Reporting Progress at Protected Area Sites: Data Sheet 1
Protected Area 5: COIBA NATIONAL PARK
Name, affiliation and contact details for person
responsible for completing the METT (email etc.)
Date assessment carried out July 5, 2010
Name of protected area
WDPA site code (these codes can be
found on www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/)
Designations
Country Panama
National
National Park
Location of protected area (province and if
possible map reference)
Coiba National Park
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Marta C. Moreno
morenomc61@hotmail.com
IUCN
Category
II
International
- UNESCO World Heritage site
(2005)
- Important Bird Area of
Panama (VR-3);
Gulf of Chiriquí, in the South-Western region of the
Panamanian Pacific
Date of establishment - Law 44 of July 26, 2004 – (Ley 44 del 26 de julio de 2004) (GO
25,104).
Ownership details (please tick)
State
X
Private
Community
Other
Management Authority
National Environmental Authority - Autoridad Nacional del
Ambiente (ANAM)
Size of protected area (ha) 256,195 ha
Number of staff
Annual budget (US$) –
excluding staff salary
costs
What are the main values
for which the area is
designated
Permanent
One Protected Area Chief and
18 park rangers
Recurrent (operational) funds
-FIDECO (2010)= 41,000.00 US$
-SINAP (2010)= 97,040.00 US$
Temporary
0
Project or other
supplementary funds
- MarViva Foundation
(2010)
It contains outstanding examples that represent the significant
ecological and biological processes that influence in the evolution
and the development of the terrestrial ecosystems, aquatic
freshwater, coastal and marine, and of plants and animal of the
communities, besides possessing places that contain the most
important and significant natural habitat for the conservation of
the biodiversity; including those that contain universal species
threatened of value, by the point of view of the science or the
conservationists.