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23 Years
“Training Professionals from Latin America & the Caribbean”
Justification: Conservation and management of natural resources has accelerated dramatically throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, within the last few years. Through the establishment and strengthening of national, regional, state and local parks, reserves and other protected areas, these systems are seen as the key to sustaining biodiversity. Within these systems, wetlands are often regarded as the ¨hub¨, holding together the key elements needed for ecosystem health and biodiversity. Good wetland conservation depends on the quality of management in the surrounding uplands. While some conservation groups focus on specific habitat types, to be truly effective, land managers in Latin America must concern themselves with the entire system. It has become increasingly apparent that simply setting aside a protected area is not a guarantee of having achieved fundamental conservation or sustainable development goals; rather, it is just a first step. There are a lot of threats and pressures, all contributing to the degradation of the world’s natural protected areas. As to dealing with these threats, the lack of trained personnel to manage natural resources has been ranked by various authorities as one of the most critical problems facing conservation of Natural resources in Latin America and the Caribbean. Aware of this situation, the RESERVA Program was initiated during the second semester of 1989, with the participation and support of National and International institutions, where the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), US Forest Service, Department of Agriculture (USFSDA), Ducks Unlimited Inc, Ducks Unlimited de Mexico, A.C. (DUMAC) and the Secretariat of Environment, Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), represents the main partners that had supported the program for its development. Characteristics of the Program: RESERVA was established as one of the first internationally focused, hands-on protected area training program in Latin America and the Caribbean. The program’s principal function is to train professionals working on protected areas from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, in the most fundamental practical skills necessary to manage wildlands effectively. Trainees in the program are already responsible for important protected areas throughout the region, working for Governmental or Non-Governmental organizations and Universities. There is one session per year, with 62 days in duration. And a scholarship for the participants attending the course is provided.
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Objectives: 1. To train protected area biologists, planners and managers from Latin
America and the Caribbean, in protected area management techniques by means of intensive hands-on experience.
2. To provide such training directly in Spanish, in a range of tropical or
subtropical habitat and within the context of Latin American and the Caribbean cultural, biological and economic conditions.
3. To improve the capabilities of protected area managers and consequently
protected area management through Latin America and the Caribbean. 4. To conserve biological diversity through sustained resources management
of protected areas and ecosystems generally. 5. To develop the institutional capacity within Latin America and the
Caribbean, to continue and expand professional training opportunities. 6. To develop support among Latin American and Caribbean professionals,
government officials and the public, for biological diversity conservation and sustained development of natural resources.
Program Structure: The program is divided in 15 different modules, as follows: 1. GIS 2. Conservation Biology 3. Management tools for the conservation of flora 4. Management tools for the conservation and management of wildlife 5. Biodiversity: valuation and measurement 6. Social involvement and community work. 7. Environmental Interpretation 8. Environmental education 9. Environmental impact 10. Public Use Areas 11. Conservation and management of wetlands 12. Forestry conservation and management 13. Environmental planning 14. Land Use Planning 15. Conflicts resolutions
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Each of the topics consists of a combination of classroom activities and related field exercises, in which course participants are asked to address and offer solutions to a particular resources management problem. The instruction of each of the different topic is being given by fifteen proven and experienced instructors. These professors are national and international precedence, working for eleven different Academic Institutions, Governmental and no Governmental Organizations. The instructor´s academic profile is: 13% Bachelor’s degree, 40% with a Master in Science degree and 47% with Ph.D. Participant’s selection is based on the following criteria: 1. Importance of the employee's protected area to biological diversity and
sustainable resources management. 2. Need for training the employee. 3. References as to the ability and potential of the candidate. 4. Likelihood that the participant will be able to effectively apply the skills
learned in the course. Results:
To date, 36 RESERVA courses have been completed. This far RESERVA has graduated 420 professionals, representing 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries, and one from the West African country of Guinea Bissau. The nationality of the participants that are being trained in the RESERVA program, correspond to 225 professionals from 8 countries of Central America (including Mexico), 161 professionals from 10 countries of South America, 34 from 4 Caribbean countries and one from Africa. 85% of the participants on the course, came representing Governmental Organizations at local and federal level, 13% from Non-Governmental Organizations and 2% from Universities. As we can see, the majority of the trained personnel in RESERVA, came representing the governments of each of the countries in LA. This situation remarks that the administration of natural resources is in their hand in the majority of the cases, and NGO’s play an important role but as cooperators and resources facilitators for the development of specific works within the areas. So in fact if we really want to affect changes on policy and decision
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making regarding conservation and management of natural resources, we need to guarantee the improvement of the professional skills, to improve management decisions, of those that are directly involved on the administration of the resources we want to protect, and that unfortunately are also those professionals with less expectation of training opportunities. Program´s Impact. 85% of the professionals graduated on RESERVA, are still related to conservation and management of natural resources. 20% of them had received important promotions in their jobs, providing better capacity for decision making at the institutions they represent. Most of the participants after RESERVA, returned to their countries with the intention to continue their professional training, throughout graduate programs to improve their professional capacity and their decision making. Must of the countries that has participated in RESERVA with graduates, depends on Oil production to support their own country income and unfortunately, because of this situation they are facing the potential treat of coastal wetlands loss with oil spill. Countries such as Mexico with 142 participants graduated; Venezuela with 18; Colombia with 24; Bolivia with 8; Chile with 25, Guatemala with 17 and Dominican Republic with 23 participants, are the most important countries in Latin America with Oil production and all of them in addition to those countries not enlisted, having as the back bone the National Protected Areas but with the great need of improving the professional capacity of those managing the natural areas remaining in their countries. This type of course is unique to Latin America and the potential benefits to preserve biological diversity resources in this region, are enormous. Employees trained in the skills taught in this course, will be able to more effectively administer the natural resources they oversee.
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Accomplishments:
Duration of the Program: 23 years
Number of Sessions: 36
Number of Participants Trained: 420
Participant´s Derivation: 23 countries, 22 from Latin America and the Caribbean and one from Africa.
Profession of Participants: Biologist (176), Agronomist (50), Forester (39), Wildlife Technician (34), Geographer (13), Ranger (8), Forestry Technician (20), Ecologist (11), Veterinarian (15), Communications Specialist (3), Administrator (3), Oceanographer (5), Archeologist (2) Others (10).
Gender: 157 women / 263 men
Agencies and Organizations Represented among Trainees: 191 (108 government agencies / 69 non-governmental organizations / 9 universities).
Conservation Areas Benefited Trough Improved Professional Skills: More than 920.
RESERVA Headquarter and Other Facilities: John E. Walker Research Station in Celestun; Field Station at the Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve; National Marine Park Cozumel Reefs; Yum Balam Flora and Fauna Federal Protected Area.
Categories of Management and Science Training: 16
Total Instructional Hours: 540
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Countries Represented Among Trainees
(36 sessions / N=420)
20
2
8
15
25
24
14
7
14
14
17
1
3
10
142
15
10
10
20
1
23
7
18
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
Argentina
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Ginnea Bissau
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Uruguay
Venezuela
Number of Participants
Co
un
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s
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43%
7% 4% 14%
32%
Current labor responsability of ex-RESERVA graduates
Coordinator
Director
Other
Department Chief
Operation Technician
34%
20%
38%
8%
Participants per Region
Mexico
Central America
South America
Caribbean
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Session 33 April to June 2011
Participants
Name Country
María Paz Cóvolo Argentina
Pedro Antonio Salazar Humeres Chile
Claudia Pinzón Vanegas Colombia
Maykel Borges Rodríguez Cuba
Douglas Alexander Müller Gonález El Salvador
Roberto Alfonso Hernández Rivas El Salvador
Azucena del Carmen Luna Ordóñez Guatemala
Adán Arturo Aguilar Torres Honduras
Rosbel Rene Rodríguez Nuñez Honduras
Perla Xóchitl Silvestre Lara Mexico
Bertha Llamas Hernández Mexico
Nubia Elsa Núñez Vivas Mexico
Leonardo González Salazar Mexico
Lizzy Johnana Kanashiro Diaz Peru
Eduardo Rafael Rodríguez Santana Dominican Republic
Jesús del Rosario Pérez Dominican Republic
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Session 34 September to November 2011
Participants
Name Country
Alfredo Gálvez Ballón Peru
Anna Emylia Montalván Rivera Peru
Jose Luis Linares Rodriguez Cuba
Yuriet Ferrer Herrera Cuba
Jose Perez Rocha Dominican Republic
Mayra Josefina Peña Jerez Dominican Republic
Victor Delgado Del Rio Delgadillo Mexico
Oscar Manuel Sanchez Jimenez Mexico
Lucas Martin Gomez Rios Argentina
Leyrubi Aisquel Gonzalez Marchan Venezuela
Pilar de Maria Velasquez Jofre Guatemala
Evelyn Solano Brenes Costa Rica
Gerardo Josue Sandoval Costa Rica
Carmela Sanchez Garcia Mexico
Alberto Cruz Hernandez Mexico
Genaro Mondragon Contreras Mexico
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Session 35 April to June 2012
Participants
Name Country
Alexandra Goucher Vargas Costa Rica
Alexandre Milaré Batistella Brazil
Danelia Maireba Benavides Nicaragua
Reinaldo Gelvez Gutiérrez Colombia
Kelly Bolio Moguel Mexico
Oscar Ariel May Avila Mexico
Jose Omar Ku May Mexico
Edna Lizzeth Carrillo Aispuro Mexico
Ana Maria Montan Alvarez Dominican Republic
Kenset A. Rosales Riveiro Guatemala
Marcia Rodríguez Quintana Cuba
Abel Rojas Valdés Cuba
Sebastian Fermani Marambio Argentina
David Muñoz Salas Chile
Elba Noemy Martínez Bernal El Salvador
Irina Llamas Torres Mexico
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Session 36 September to November 2012
Participants
Name Country
Pablo Jaime Rios Lenes Bolivia
Pablo Medina Reyes Dominican Republic
Roger González Tenorio Costa Rica
Miguel Angel López Hernández Mexico
Dulcileia Costa Fernandes Brazil
Juan Carlos Funes López Guatemala
Eduardo José Altamirano Urbina Nicaragua
Sener Alvert Daphinis Haiti
Zara Isabel Sánchez Miranda Peru
Mirkala Paola Parra Rondón Venezuela
Iván Gamboa Marfil Mexico
Antonio Verdugo Figueroa Mexico
Alexander Fontaine Dassonvalle Chile
Yessenia Ruelas Aréchiga Mexico
Erika Arroyo Chacon Mexico
Marlen García Ortiz Guatemala