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Community---Based Environmental Management in Mexico

Information Packet

March 12-18, 2017

EMERGENCY INFO – IN CASE YOU GET LOST/HURT IN OAXACA Mexico cell phones: Sofia: TBA Liz Phone with international plan: +1 (805) 259---9912

Hotel CasAntica Phone: +52 951 516 2673 Address: José María Morelos (Av. Morelos) 601, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca, Oax., Mexico Website: https://hotelcasantica.com/?lang=es

Clínica Hospital Carmen One of the city’s best private hospitals, with emergency facilities and English---speaking doctors. Phone: (951) 516---0027 Address: Abasolo 215

ITINERARY Sunday (12)

Arrive in Oaxaca – welcome! 17:00pm- Introduction meeting (meet in lobby of Hotel CasAntica) 19:00 pm – Dinner Hotel: Hotel CasAntica

Monday (13)

Breakfast at Hotel CasAntica ** be ready to leave Hotel by 8:00am 9:00 am – Meeting with ERA [Privada de Almendros 213, Reforma, 68050 Oaxaca, OAX] 11:00 am – Meeting with CONAFOR 13:00 pm – Lunch 16:00 pm – Meeting with CEPCO 18:00 pm – Dinner Hotel: Hotel CasAntica

Tuesday (14)

** be ready to leave Hotel by 6:00 am (if storing bags with hotel, have that done by 6:00am).

6:00 --- 8:00 am – Travel to Calpulálpam de Méndez 8:00 am – Breakfast 9:00 am – Meeting with officials 9:20 am – Presentation with the communal land commission 11:00 am – Tour of the community forestry projects (hiking shoes, water, snacks, etc!!!) 16:00 pm – Lunch 17:00 pm – Tour of ecotourism project “Calpulálpam Mágico” 19:00 pm – Rooms’ assignment at ecotourism lodge 21:00 pm – Dinner

Hotel: Ecotourism Cabañas in Calpulálpam de Méndez

Wednesday (15)

8:00 am – Breakfast at Ecotourism Cabañas 9:00 am – Field visit: Conservation of Wildlife Unit 10.40 am – Wrap up meeting with authorities of Calpulálpam 11:00 am – Travel to San Juan Metaltepec 16:00 pm – Initial meeting with President of coffee cooperative society’s president. 16:20 pm – Lunch 17:00 pm- Meeting and talk on PES and cooperative coffee 19:00 pm – Host family assignments 20:00pm- Dinner

Homestays San Juan Metaltepec

Thursday (16)

8:00 am– Breakfast with host families 9:00 am – Tour to forestry/agroforestry areas: PES and coffee production (hiking shoes, water, snacks, etc!!!) 15:00 – Lunch 16:00 – 20:00 pm – Travel back to Oaxaca city (we will stop for dinner along the way)

Hotel: Hotel CasAntica

Friday (17)

Breakfast at Hotel CasAntica ** be ready to leave Hotel by 9:00 am 10:00 am – Meeting with Rainforest Alliance 12:00 pm – Tour Ethnobotanical Garden 14:00pm Lunch at the 20 de Noviembre Market – walk around the market 16:00pm – Meeting with WWF 19:00 pm – Dinner at Los Danzantes

Hotel: Hotel CasAntica

Saturday (18)

Breakfast at Hotel CasAntica Sofia will organize a Teotitlan tour for whoever wants to go – details TBD. This is interesting. If it’s flexible, I usually like to take people to Tlacochahuaya’s chuch, Mitla and Teotitlan (They are all in the same route).

DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATIONS Monday, March 13: Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina (ERA) Rural Studies and Consulting http://www.era---mx.org/ Privada de Almendros 213 (entre Amapolas y Emilio Carranza, Colonia Reforma) Civil non---profit association composed of professionals dedicated to sustainable natural resource management in Mexico. Projects they work on include management of agricultural and forest ecosystems. Groups: Community Forestry, Ecotourism Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR) National Forestry Commission of Mexico http://www.conafor.gob.mx/portal/ Privada de almendros 106, Colonia Reforma, Oaxaca A government agency tasked with developing, supporting and promoting the conservation and restoration of Mexico's forests, as well participating in the development of plans, programs and policies for sustainable forestry development. It is part of the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources and was created on April 4, 2001. Group: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Community Forestry Coordinadora Estatal de Productores de Café Orgánico de Oaxaca (CEPCO) Oaxacan State Coffee Producers Network http://www.cepco.org.mx/ CEPCO was formed by bringing together various organizations representing small growers from different regions of the state of Oaxaca. The Coffee Growers Association of Oaxaca is the largest network of small coffee farmers in Mexico. Group: Cooperative Coffee

Tuesday-Thursday 14-17 of March:

Integradora de Comunidades Indígenas y Campesinas de Oaxaca (ICICO) http://www.icico.org.mx/inicio.html A non-profit organization made up of 12 indigenous communities, primarily from various regions in Oaxaca. The purpose of the organization is to facilitate the management of the forest, agroforest (for coffee) and reforested areas in these communties in order to produce carbon offsets for a national-level voluntary market managed by the Mexican NGO ProNatura. Information on the carbon offsetting project can be found at: http://www.neutralizate.com/mercado.html Groups: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Community Forestry, Cooperative Coffee Turismo Ecológico Comunitario Calpulalpan Mágico, Calpulalpan de Méndez http://www.turismocapulalpam.com.mx/ Groups: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Community Forestry, Ecotourism San Juan Metaltepec, Mixes, Oaxaca Groups: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Community Forestry, Cooperative Coffee Friday, March 18: Rainforest Alliance http://www.rainforest---alliance.org/community---forestry/regions/mexico The Rainforest Alliance's TREES program is working to help Mexico's community forest enterprises increase their competitiveness in national and international markets.

Groups: Community Forestry, Cooperative Coffee, Ecotourism

Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca http://www.gardendesign.com/travel/oaxacas-ethnobotanical-garden Oaxaca’s indigenous peoples are known for their textiles, ceramics, cuisine, and complex use of plants. The earliest evidence of plant domestication of squash and corn in the Americas was found in Oaxaca. To this day, wild plants are used throughout the region for food, crafts, and medicine. To tell the area’s history this ethnobotanical garden was formed with a unique arrangement of plants by ecological and cultural themes.

World Wildlife Fund – Mexico http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/mexico/ Calle Circuito Acueducto Casa 320, Fraccionamiento Rincon del Acueducto WWF has been present in Mexico since 1968, when it began a study on the Mexican gray wolves. In 1990, WWF established an office in Oaxaca, and in 1993 formally established a presence with a mandate for developing conservation projects across the country. Group: Ecotourism, Community Forestry

MAP – OAXACA CITY – MEETING LOCATIONS

Commented [stf1]: TBD- Location for Rainforest Alliance. I think it’ll be somewhere around El Zócalo. I’ll let you know this week.

MAP – COMMUNITY LOCATIONS

FUN THINGS TO DO NEAR OAXACA CITY There are tours that go all of these places (most do a combination of locations)

v Teotitlán del Valle (rugs, community museum, church) • Tlacochahuaya (church) • Yagul (ruins) • Tlacolula’s Sunday Market (the market and church)

v San Bartolo Coyotepec (black pottery) v San Antonio Arrazola (alebrijes) v Monte Albán Zapotec Ruins v Mitla Zapotec Ruins v Tule Tree v Hierve el Agua – petrified waterfall

MAP – OAXACA CITY This is a really brief list – the hotel has a map with a more extensive list of museums and stores.

HOTEL, SIGHTSEEING AND SHOPPING 1. CasAntica Hotel 2. Hotel Monte Alban – Guelaguetza show 3. Zocolo (Casa de mi Abuela restaurant) 4. Oaxacan Women’s Cooperative 5. Templo de Santo Domingo – Cultures of Oaxaca

Museum 6. Ethnobotanic garden 7. Rufino Tomayo museum 8. Mercado 20 de Noviembre 9. Macedonio Alcalá theater * Parque Paseo Juarez

RESTAURANTS 10. La Biznaga 11. Los Danzantes CAFES WITH WI---FI 12. Pan and Co. – wi---fi (name Panetco; password

3032356262) 13. Café Brujula – ask them for the password ATMS 14. BBVA – approximate location 15. HSBC