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GEF-4 Tracking Tool for Biodiversity Focal Area Strategic
Objective One:
Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Area
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rules well enough? The staff have excellent capacity/resources to enforce protected area
3 sufficient to monitor the area,
legislation and regulations
so they have to make great
Input
efforts to control illegal
activities in the area. The
protected area counts also
with the support of the
ecological police and the users
of the Park.
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4. Protected area
objectives
Is management
undertaken according
to agreed objectives?
Planning
5. Protected area design
Is the protected area the
right size and shape to
protect species,
habitats, ecological
processes and water
catchments of key
conservation concern?
Planning
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Comment/Explanation Next steps
No firm objectives have been agreed for the protected area 0 The Soberanía NP management
The protected area has agreed objectives, but is not managed according to
1
plan is a tool of support to the
these objectives
management of the park which
The protected area has agreed objectives, but is only partially managed
2
establishes the objectives, norms
according to these objectives
and guidelines, possible uses
The protected area has agreed objectives and is managed to meet these
objectives
3 3
and strategies; to improve the
common participation, the
protection, conservation and
sustainable management of the
ecosystem and its zone of
neighborhood.
Inadequacies in protected area design mean achieving the major objectives of
the protected area is very difficult
Inadequacies in protected area design mean that achievement of major
objectives is difficult but some mitigating actions are being taken (e.g.
agreements with adjacent land owners for wildlife corridors or introduction of
appropriate catchment management)
Protected area design is not significantly constraining achievement of
objectives, but could be improved (e.g. with respect to larger scale ecological
processes)
0
1
2