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Mapping Conservation Investments MAPPING CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS An Assessment of Biodiversity Funding in LATIN AMERICA and the CARIBBEAN By: G. Castro and I. Locker, with V. Russell, L. Cornwell and E. Fajer ¿DÓNDE SE INVIERTE EN BIODIVERSIDAD? Una Evaluación del Financiamiento para la Biodiversidad en AMÉRICA LATINA y EL CARIBE Por: G. Castro e I. Locker, junto con V. Russell, L. Cornwell y E. Fajer TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLA DE CONTENIDOS Acknowledgements 5 Reconocimientos 5 Executive Summary 7 Resumen Ejecutivo 7 Introduction 10 Introducción 10 Previous Conservation Funding Assessments 12 Evaluaciones Previas sobre Financiamiento Biodiversity Funding Assessment for LAC 13 para la Conservación 12 Evaluación del Financiamiento para la Methods 14 Biodiversidad en LAC 13 Survey 14 Métodos 14 Information Collected 14 Encuesta 14 Potential Sources of Error 15 Información Recolectada 14 Results and Discussion 16 Fuentes Potenciales de Error 15 General Results 16 Resultados y Discusión 16 Funding by Donor Type 20 Resultados Generales 16 Funding by Project Category 21 Financiamiento por Tipo de Donante 20 Number of Projects by Project Category 23 Financiamiento por Categoría de Proyecto 21 Project Category by Donor Type 24 Número de Proyectos por Categoría de Proyecto 23 Funding Trends Over Time 25 Categoría de Proyecto por Tipo de Donante 24 Funding Analysis by Country 26 Tendencias de Financiamiento al Paso del Tiempo 25 Funding by Ecoregion 29 Análisis de Financiamiento por País 26 Funding by Larger Aggregates 35 Financiamiento por Ecoregión 29 Funding by Major Ecosystem Types and Major Habitat Types 37 Financiamiento en Agregados Mayores 37 Gaps in Funding 38 Financiamiento por Tipos Principales de Ecosistemas y Tipos Principales de Hábitats 37 Recommendations 41 Vacíos de Financiamiento 38 Conclusion 44 Recomendaciones 41 Appendix 1 47 Conclusión 45 Appendix 2 49 Apéndice 1 47 Appendix 3 50 Apéndice 2 49 Appendix 4 59 Apéndice 3 50 Appendix 5 62 Apéndice 4 59 Appendix 6 70 Apéndice 5 62 References Cited 78 Apéndice 6 70 About the Biodiversity Support Program 80 Referencias Bibliográficas 78 Acerca del Biodiversity Support Program 80 TABLES TABLAS Table 1: Top Funders 19 Tabla 1: Principales Financiadores 19 Table 2: Biodiversity-Related Funding by Country 28 Tabla 2: Financiamiento para Biodiversidad, por País 28 Table 3: Ecoregions with Largest Investment and Greatest Tabla 3: Ecoregiones con la Mayor Inversión y el Mayor Número Number of Projects 35 de Proyectos 35 Table 4: Percentage Investment in Larger Regional Aggregates Tabla 4: Porcentaje de Inversión en Agregados Regionales by Donor Type 37 Mayores por Tipo de Donante 37 Table 5: Investment Levels in WWF Priority Level I Ecoregions 42 Tabla 5: Niveles de Inversión en las Ecoregiones de Nivel de Table 6:Matrix for Integrating Biological Distinctiveness Prioridad I del WWF 42 and Status to Assign Priorities for Biodiversity Tabla 6:Matriz para Integrar la Particularidad Biológica y el Conservation 60 Estatus de Conservación para la Designación de la Prioridades para Conservación de la Biodiversidad 60 FIGURES Figure 1: Biodiversity-Related Funding by Sub-Region 17 FIGURAS Figure 2: Number of Biodiversity-Related Projects by Sub-Region 17 Figura 1: Financiamiento para Biodiversidad por Subregión 17 Figure 3: Cumulative Funding 19 Figura 2: Número de Proyectos de Biodiversidad por Subregión 17 Figure 4: Biodiversity-Related Funding by Donor Type 20 Figura 3: Financiamiento Acumulado 19 Figure 5: Biodiversity-Related Funding Percentages by Figura 4: Financiamiento para Biodiversidad por Tipo de Donante 20 Project Category 21 Figura 5: Porcentajes de Financiamiento por Categoría de Proyecto 21 Figure 6:Number of Biodiversity-Related Projects by Figura 6: Número de Proyectos por Categoría de Proyecto 22 Project Category 22 Figura 7: Porcentaje de Financiamiento por Categoría de Figure 7: Percentage of Biodiversity-Related Funding by Project Proyecto y por Tipo de Donante 23 Category and Donor Type 23 Figura 8: Financiamiento Relacionado a la Biodiversidad Figure 8:Biodiversity-Related Funding by Project Category and por Categoría de Proyecto y por Tipo de Donante 24 Donor Type 24 Figura 9: Suma del Financiamiento Relacionado a la Biodiversidad Figure 9:Sum of Biodiversity-Related Funding by Donor Type in por Tipo de Donante en Intervalos de Dos Años 25 Two-Year Intervals 25 Figura 10:Porcentaje de Financiamiento por Tipos de Figure 10:Percentage of Funding by Major Ecosystem Types 39 Ecosistemas Principales 39 MAPS MAPAS Map 1: Biodiversity-Related Funding by Country 27 Mapa 1: Financiamiento por País 27 Map 2: Number of Biodiversity-Related Projects by Country 30 Mapa 2: Número de Proyectos por País 30 Map 3: Biodiversity-Related Funding by Country, controlled for size Mapa 3: Financiamiento por País, controlado por tamaño (US$/square kilometer) 31 (dólares/kilómetro cuadrado) 31 Map 4: WWF Ecoregions for Latin America and the Caribbean 32 Mapa 4: Ecoregiones del WWF para América Latina y el Caribe 32 Map 5: Biodiversity-Related Funding by Ecoregion 34 Mapa 5: Financiamiento por Ecoregión 34 Map 6:Biodiversity-Related Funding by Larger Aggregates: Amazon, Mapa 6: Financiamiento por Agregados Mayores: Amazonas, Andes, Atlantic Forest, Central America, and Caribbean 36 Andes, Mata Atlántica, Centroamérica, y el Caribe 36 Map 7: Biodiversity-Related Funding by WWF Priority Level I Mapa 7: Financiamiento por Ecoregiones de Niveles de Prioridad I Ecoregions (Gap Analysis) 40 del WWF (Análisis de Vacíos de Información) 40 APPENDICES APÉNDICES Appendix 1:Survey of Biological Diversity Project Funding and Apéndice 1: Encuesta sobre el Financiamiento y Localización de Location in the LAC Region 47 Proyectos de Diversidad Biológica en la Región de LAC 47 Appendix 2:List of Respondents 49 Apéndice 2: Lista de Encuestados 49 Appendix 3:Methodology 50 Apéndice 3: Metodología 50 Appendix 4:Ecoregions, Priority Setting and Ecoregion- Apéndice 4:Ecoregiones, Establecimiento de Prioridades y Based Conservation 59 Conservación Basada en Ecoregiones 59 Appendix 5:Participant List for Donors Workshop 62 Apéndice 5: Lista de Participantes al Taller de Donantes 62 Appendix 6:Complete List of Ecoregions with Funding and Apéndice 6:Lista Completa de Ecoregiones con Financiamiento y Number of Projects 70 Número de Proyectos 70 ( 4 ) BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT PROGRAM RECONOCIMIENTOS DEL BIODIVERSITY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SUPPORT PROGRAM The Biodiversity Support Program (BSP — a USAID- El Biodiversity Support Program (BSP, un consorcio del World funded consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy y el World Resources Conservancy and World Resources Institute) would like Institute, financiado por el USAID) desea dar reconocimiento to acknowledge authors Eric Fajer and Gonzalo Castro, a los autores Eric Fajer y Gonzalo Castro, del USAID y el Banco of USAID and the World Bank, for their initial vision for Mundial, respectivamente, por la visión inicial para este this project and for the project funding their institutions proyecto y por el financiamiento proporcionado por sus provided. BSP would also like to thank Jeff Brokaw and instituciones para dicho proyecto. El BSP también desea author Laura Cornwell, both of USAID, for their guidance agradecer a Jeff Brokaw y a la autora Laura Cornwell, ambos during the implementation of this project. del USAID, por su dirección durante la implementación de este proyecto. This project could not have been completed without countless hours of data entry, research, follow-up with Este proyecto no se hubiera podido completar sin las inconta- donors, map making and analysis. For these, we thank bles horas dedicadas a la captura de datos, la investigación, el consultants Karin Harjes, who started the process, seguimiento con los donantes, y el trazado y análisis de mapas. Meghan McKnight, who picked it up in the middle, and Por éstas, agradecemos a los consultores Karin Harjes, quien ini- Danielle Berman, who brought it to closure. ció el proceso, Meghan McKnight, quien lo tomó a medio camino, y Danielle Berman, quien lo llevó hasta el final. The donors workshop, where the preliminary results of this analysis were first presented, would not have been El taller de donantes, donde se presentaron los resultados prelimi- the success it was without the tireless support of BSP nares del análisis por primera vez, no hubiera sido el éxito que fue staff Rita Ogilvie, Janice Davis, Jonnell Allen, Connie sin el infatigable apoyo de los miembros del personal de BSP Rita Carrol and Christopher Maness. Tom Lovejoy, of the Ogilvie, Janice Davis, Jonnell Allen, Connie Carrol y Christopher World Bank, and Jack Vanderryn, of the Moriah Fund, Maness. Tom Lovejoy, del Banco Mundial y Jack Vanderryn, del also provided key guidance during the planning of Moriah Fund, también proporcionaron orientación clave durante la the workshop. planeación del taller. Base geographical data came from a variety of sources. La información geográfica de base fue obtenida de varias fuentes. World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Conservation Science El Programa de Ciencia para la Conservación del World Wildlife Program provided country and administrative unit bound- Fund (WWF) suministró los linderos para los países y las unidades aries, ecoregions and forest cover. WWF also provided administrativas, las ecoregiones y la cubierta forestal. El WWF tam- data from the Environmental Systems Research Institute bién suministró información del Environmental Systems Research (ESRI) on site locations and from the International
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