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GEF-4 Tracking Tool for Biodiversity Focal Area Strategic
Objective One:
Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Area
Issue Criteria Score: Tick only one box
per question
Process
There is a comprehensive, integrated programme of survey and research work,
which is relevant to management needs
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Comment/Explanation Next steps
3 3 not been until recent years that
has been utilized for the
management of the park. In some
coral reefs manipulative
experiments for more than 35
years have been carried out, and
of to date, they have not caused
significant negative effects. On
this matter, the dive scientist is an
important component of the
scientific activities that are
carried out in the marine middle.
Likewise, the studies on the
terrestrial flora have contributed
to the enlargement of the
knowledge on the terrestrial
ecosystems of the Coiba NP, but
without greater impact in its
management. Nevertheless, the
present management plan has
incorporated happiness
information to the decisions of
management and proposes to
carry out monitoring, particularly
in the one that refers to the coral
reefs, fisheries and the vegetation
of the wetlands.
The management plan establishes
a research program and
monitoring, whose objectives to
orient chiefly the management of
the Park, besides, the
management plan creates the
Scientific Committee, who
supported these activities, so
much in the elaboration of the
plan of investigation and
evaluation of said investigations.
It is counted also with strategic
allies that support these activities
of investigation. Nevertheless,
even themselves, not all the count
on personnel and supplies for this
program, for which limitations
exist.