Catálogo de plantas nativas con potencial para biocomercio y bioprospección de la Reserva Natural Privada Punta Patiño

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PRIVATE NATURE RESERVE OF PUNTA PATIÑO DARIEN, PANAMA
RESERVA NATURAL PRIVADA PUNTA PATIÑO DARIÉN, PANAMÁ
UNDP
The United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations
Development Programme
(UNDP) Global Program on
Biodiversity and Ecosystems
has a broad portfolio of projects
on biodiversity in Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Among these projects, a
growing number promote
access to genetic resources and
the fair and equitable sharing
of the benefits derived from
their use (ABS). In Panama, this
program operates from the
Country Office Environment
and Sustainable Development
Cluster.
This publication is a collaboration
under the UNDP-GEF Global
project on ABS: “Strengthening
Human Resources, Legal
Frameworks, and Institutional
Capacities to Implement the
Nagoya Protocol”.
This project promotes the full
and effective implementation of
the Nagoya Protocol on access
to genetic resources in 24 countries,
including Panama, with the
general objective of helping developing
countries to strengthen
their national frameworks on ABS,
and build their human and administrative
capacities to implement
the Protocol. With this objective
in mind, the project works, at
national scale, on the execution of
the following three components:
Building legal, political, and institutional
capacity to develop National
ABS Frameworks
Fostering trust between users and
providers of genetic resources to
facilitate efforts for biodiscovery
Building the capacity of local
and indigenous communities to
contribute to the application of the
Nagoya Protocol
This collaboration will enable
a deeper appreciation of the
potential for bioprospecting and
biotrade in the Private Nature
Reserve of Punta Patiño, in Darién,
Panama. This recognition can
contribute significantly to the
conservation and sustainable
use of natural resources present
in this key area for biodiversity,
which connects the protected
areas of the Darién National Park,
a Biosphere Reserve and World
Heritage Site. The UNDP advocates
for an integrated approach to
ecosystem management, biodiversity,
and land use on both local
implementation plans and private
sector initiatives as a core element
to meeting the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
At UNDP, we recognize the good
work done by the research team
involved in this publication, and
we are sure that it will lay the
foundation to promote greater
interest for the sustainable use of
biodiversity as an economic alternative
to local communities who
should directly reap the benefits.
We also hope that this work can
contribute to the recognition of
the rich diversity of the genetic
resources found in the Private
Nature Reserve of Punta Patiño
and in Panama in general, while
making sure that access to these
resources generates opportunities
and benefits that are equitably
shared among all of the stakeholders
involved, including local
and indigenous communities.
Harold Robinson Davis
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) Resident
Representative