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Bic)Diversity Conservation at the Landscape Scale Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement Award LAG-A-OO-99-00047-00 , v WILDLIFE -~ Bic)diversity Conservation at CONSERVATION SOCIETY . co.'" the Landscape Scale :s.~r -0", • " . A Program ofthe Wildlife Conservation Society ... '":. ".': .... ~. .:."': ':~. Supported by the USAID/Global Conservation Program Northwestern Bolivian Andes Landscape Conservation Area Semi-Annual Report April 2001 - September 2001 I. Summary of Activity Status and Progress a. Introduction/Summary: The Northwestern Bolivian Andes Biological Conservation at the Landscape Scale (BCLS) Program aims to ensure conservation of the wild lands and wildlife of the greater Madidi area through a landscape conservation approach, working with other conservation and sustainable development projects active in the region. The landscape approach is designed to determine the needs of key wildlife species, assess human activities across the same landscape, and use the intersection of these to focus efforts on those areas and actions which emerge as key conservation conflicts or opportunities. To accomplish the long­ term goal ofbiodiversity conservation at the Northwestern Bolivian Andes Landscape Conservation Area (LCA), we focus on four interrelated objectives: establish baselines and monitor landscape species and the landscape context in which they are found; strengthen local, on-site protection and management of biological resources across the landscape; promote the development ofnational policies that support the landscape conservation approach; and elaborate a participative, integrated landscape conservation action plan. In general, the Northwestern Bolivian Andes Landscape Program is on track and in several cases we are ahead of where we expected to be at this stage in the project. For example, our community natural resource management component is growing rapidly with more and more communities expressing an interest. Similarly, our work with Tacana people, their representative body (CIPTA) and the TCO they intend to manage is well ahead of schedule. In many ways the quality of information available for the TCO is now a benchmark for the ongoing Madidi National Park management plan and will also be a model for updates to the Apolobamba and Pilon Lajas protected area management plans. The imminent release ofa first draft ofa Landscape Conservation Action Plan for the region, coupled with first drafts of monitoring and long-term financial strategies for the landscape represent the consolidation of the landscape vision for Northern La Paz. In addition, our success at placing environmental issues on the local government agenda will assist in the realization ofa truly integrated conservation planning process. Delayed activities are largely due to delays in necessary input from collaborating institutions, particularly one ofour key partners in the region, the Bolivian protected area service (SERNAP). b. Highlights: • The Bolivian contingent ofthe Living Landscapes Program has continued its leading role in the development ofthe Landscape Species Selection Criteria and also has begun the process of developing 'biological landscape' models for the landscape species. The final suite of landscape species has been detennined for the Northwestern Bolivian Andes Landscape Conservation Area: Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), jaguar (Panthera onca)and surubi catfish (Pseudoplatystoma sp.) (See Appendix I). The BCLS team is currently developing biological and human landscape GIS models for these species and the landscape in general, using the biological data collected by the project and available spatial infonnation on threats. • During this period the CARE/WCS-managed Madidi Management Plan project began activities and the BCLS team has provided technical support to this project. The management plan team has made a series of substantial requests for infonnation from the BCLS project, particularly biodiversity infonnation, but also spatial threats infonnation and socioeconomic data generated through the participatory rural appraisals (PRA's) of the Tacana TCO diagnostic. Indeed, these documents were considered so valuable that the Madidi Management Plan diagnostic will be largely based on PRA's using the same methodology as the TCO process. • Meanwhile, our community natural resource management program continues to grow with the addition of three communities during this period. These communities have identified hunting and fishing as potential problems and have asked for assistance accordingly. Fieldwork for the crop damage studies was also completed during this period, and in the initial partner communities, native bees were successfully transferred to hives. • The BCLS team also secured a second year of funding to support activities in the Tacana TCO from the USAID Bolivia office. This funding has allowed continuation of the development of a natural resource strategy for the proposed Tacana TCO, including legal support necessary for the consolidation ofthis land demand. In addition to this management plan, during this reporting period the Tacana along with their organization, CIPTA, have produced a participatory Five Year Budget Plan for the strategy that will allow CIPTA representatives to prioritize additional proposal development. Similarly, CIPTA was able to review its constitution in a participatory manner and develop an organization and operational plan for CIPTA that is currently being implemented. • Finally, in June 2001 the BCLS team was able to begin a focus on local government land-use and environmental planning with an innovative and experimental workshop held in the Apolo municipality, during which participants included over 150 people from the area as well as governmental and non-governmental institutional representation. Workshop philosophy was one of participation, with the BCLS providing technical support to municipality staff and the major input coming from locally based participants. This workshop has resulted in a preliminary environmental planning document, one ofthe first of its kind anywhere in Bolivia, and is a significant step that may allow local government to generate mom funding for environmental issues. 2 c. Table of Activity Status Activity Activity Title Status Page Number Number Obj.l Establish baseliues and monitor landscape species and the landscaoe context in which thev are found. 1.1. Biodiversitv Survevs On Track 4 1.2. Candidate Landscane Snecies Research On Track 4 1.3. Landscape Species Distribution Questionnaire On Track 5 1.4. Human-Animal Conflicts On Track 5 1.5. Complementary Ecological Studies On Track 6 Obj.2 Strengthen local on-site protection and management of biological resources across the landscaoe. 2.1. SERNAP Institutional Strengthening On Track 6 2.2. Protected Area StaffTraining On Track 7 2.3. Community Wildlife Management Proiects On Track 7 2.4. Community Wildlife Workshoos On Track 8 2.5. Wildlife Manallement, Conservation and Ecologv Unit (IE) On Track 8 2.6. Schoolyard EcolollY Education On Track 9 2.7. Monitoring Strategy Design On Track 9 2.8. Tacana Land Titling and Management On Track 9 Obj.3 Promote the development of national policies that support the landscape conservation approach. 3.1. Technical and Policv Report On Track 10 3.2. Financing Mechanisms On Track 11 3.3. Threats Assessment Working Group On Track 11 Obj.4 Elaborate a participative, integrated, landscape conservation action plan. 4.1. Cooperative Agreements Completed 12 4.2. Landscape Stakeholder Workshoo Delaved 12 4.3. Land Use Plan On Track 12 4.4. Municipal Development Plan On Track 13 4.5. Landscape Conservation Priorities and Action plan Delayed 13 II. Detailed Description of Progress a. Key short and long-term program objectives for the reporting period (April 2001 - September 2001) In one ofthe most biologically diverse landscapes on the planet, WCS intends to develop and implement long term conservation measures at a landscape scale by working with key national, regional and local partners to address identified threats and opportunities, and by focusing research efforts on ensuring the conservation and management of wide-ranging and vulnerable 'landscape species'. We aim to successfully implement and refine the landscape approach within the Northwestern Bolivian Andes Landscape, thereby promoting this concept in other biologically critical Bolivian landscapes. In the short term our objectives are to capitalize on our working relationships with the plethora ofother actors in the region, promoting the development ofthe landscape approach with interested parties through the production ofa participatory landscape conservation action plan. We also intend to add more detailed 3 environmental planning experiences to the document thereby creating a 'living' library of relevant landscape conservation planning documents. This process and the accompanying document will explore mechanisms to integrate spatially distinct land-use planning initiatives into an overall landscape conservation strategy: for example, community and inter-community zoning, TCO land-use plans, protected area management plans, local government development proposals, multiple municipality planning, private lands and forestry concessions. We also intend to continue gathering and interfacing the biological and socioeconomic information necessary to begin implementing the spatial priority setting at the landscape scale. In tum this will permit the identification of priority interventions and
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