Efectividad de áreas de conservación privada comunal en bosques montanos nublados del norte de Perú

Delgado, Ellen; Mori, Gerson Meza; Castillo, Elgar Barboza; Briceño, Niltón B. Rojas; Guzmán, Cristóbal Torres; Oliva‐Cruz, Manuel; Chávez, Segundo G.; López, Rolando Salas; Lama, Rocío López de la; Sevillano-Ríos, C. Steven; Sarmiento, Fausto O.

doi:10.3989/pirineos.2021.176006

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“…The current PPA scenario in Peru is counterintuitive; recent findings suggest that private conservation is highly effective in reducing deforestation and land degradation (Delgado et al., 2021; Schleicher et al., 2017). Although PAs protect against deforestation (Vuohelainen et al., 2012), private efforts (i.e., conservation concessions and PPAs) may twice as effectively avoid deforestation relative to state PAs (Schleicher et al., 2017).…”

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“…Although PAs protect against deforestation (Vuohelainen et al., 2012), private efforts (i.e., conservation concessions and PPAs) may twice as effectively avoid deforestation relative to state PAs (Schleicher et al., 2017). Initiatives led by local communities reduce land‐use change and have had positive landscape‐level impacts (Delgado et al., 2021; Shanee et al., 2015). Moreover, PPAs provide significant additional protection for Peru's ecoregions and threatened biodiversity—some of which are protected only on private land (Shanee et al., 2017).…”

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“…Privately protected areas (PPAs) represent an opportunity to democratize conservation through the participation of a wider set of stakeholders and rightsholders who wish to conserve nature, particularly local communities (Delgado et al., 2021). However, the term private has not resonated with local communities because it tends to be associated with millionaires and enterprises buying land for conservation (Holmes, 2014).…”

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A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America

Lama

Bennett

Bulkan

et al. 2023

Conservation Biology

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Privately protected areas (PPAs) are a potentially innovative conservation tool. Legal recognition is necessary for their success, especially where there are institutional challenges to nature conservation, such as in South America. Although PPAs have increased in South America since the early 2000s, there is a critical information gap pertaining to their legal frameworks. We analyzed the level of landowner commitment to and governmental support for PPAs across countries in South America that officially recognize PPAs. We analyzed the legal framework governing PPAs and reviewed literature on them. This process was done in English and Spanish. The information we gathered was validated by 16 conservation experts from 10 South American countries. Because Peru is 1 of only 2 South American countries where local communities create and manage PPAs, we studied Peruvian PPAs in more detail by examining official creation documents and interviewing 13 local conservation professionals. We found inadequate minimum duration of PPAs and vague guidelines for conducting economic activities within them and a lack of governmental support (e.g., financial and technical support) for PPAs. Support was limited to the exemption from rural property taxes, which are relatively low compared with countries outside South America. In Peru, PPAs run by individuals and communities needed different legal frameworks because they were created with different objectives and had different sizes and duration of commitments. The prompt improvement of legal frameworks across South America is necessary for PPAs to achieve their aim of being places for enduring nature conservation in the region.

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A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America

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Bennett

Bulkan

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Conservation Biology

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“…Peru is one of few South American countries to allow for campesino communities such as those of San Pablo de Valera to create PPAs. However, PPAs lack tangible support from the government despite their conservation successes (Shanee et al 2015, Delgado et al 2021, López de la Lama et al 2023). Integrating PPAs into Peru’s climate strategies while focusing not only on forests but also on peatlands and other wetlands could broaden the country’s means for addressing the climate crisis, contributing to the fight against global warming.…”

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Mapping high-altitude peatlands to inform a landscape conservation strategy in the Andes of northern Peru

Curatola Fernández,

Makowski Giannoni,

Delgado Florián

et al. 2023

Envir. Conserv.

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Summary The wetlands of the jalca ecoregion in the Andes of northern Peru form peat and play a major role in the hydrological ecosystem services of the ecoregion. Although peat is globally valued for carbon sequestration and storage, peatlands have not yet been mapped in the jalca. In this region, the Gocta waterfall, one of the 20 highest waterfalls in the world, depends on the jalca’s wetlands ecosystem. The local population depends on tourism to the waterfall and is concerned about preserving its drainage area. To inform conservation planning, in this study we delimited the drainage area of the Gocta waterfall and identified land tenure by applying Geographic Information System (GIS), remote sensing and participatory mapping techniques. Then, by classifying optical, radar and digital elevation models data, we mapped peatland in the jalca of the Gocta drainage area with an overall accuracy of 97.1%. Our results will inform conservation strategy in this complex area of communal, private and informal land tenure systems. At a regional level, this appears to be the first attempt at mapping peatlands using remote sensing imagery in the jalca ecoregion, and it represents a milestone for future efforts to map and conserve peatlands in other tropical mountain areas of the world.

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“…Privately protected areas, which Stolton et al (2014) define as protected areas under private governance, are experiencing global expansion both in terms of their number and total area each year (Bingham et al, 2021). Numerous studies shed light on the potential and effectiveness of voluntary conservation as a mechanism to reduce deforestation when compared to both non-protected lands and government-protected lands (Delgado et al, 2021;Palfrey et al, 2021;Schleicher et al, 2017;Shanee et al, 2015).…”

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Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru

López de la Lama,

Bennett,

Bulkan

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Voluntary land conservation, including privately protected areas (PPAs), is a key component of enabling the future of biodiversity on Earth. Accordingly, the question of motivations has preoccupied conservation social science. True motivations are difficult to ascertain, however, even for ourselves. Accordingly, we explore a novel narrative elicitation approach to ask: what features of the land and landowners' relationships with the land encourage and sustain their commitment to voluntary conservation? What value framings are conveyed by landowners when sharing their origin stories and the reasons for sustaining such efforts? We conducted semi‐structured interviews with 32 landowners of PPAs across Peru. Interviews were designed to elicit landowners' origin stories and ongoing relationships with the land, as well as the values they hold about those relationships. This paper challenges the current perception that PPAs are driven by wealthy and foreign landowners in the Peruvian context. Instead, this paper showcases PPAs as the manifestation of local visions for conservation that align with the landowners' longstanding relationships with the land. Here we identified 15 different relational values that landowners have with nature, non‐human and human beings that underlie their voluntary conservation efforts. The paper highlights the importance of taking a relational perspective (recognizing that our existence is enabled and shaped by the relationships we have with others and with nature) when studying land conservation, emphasizing how PPAs are the reflection of landowners' intention to maintain, protect and restore the multiple relationships embedded in the land they strive to conserve. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Efectividad de áreas de conservación privada comunal en bosques montanos nublados del norte de Perú

Cited by 7 publications

References 89 publications

A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America

A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America

Mapping high-altitude peatlands to inform a landscape conservation strategy in the Andes of northern Peru

Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru

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