Natural Heritage of Peru. SERNANP team led by Pedro Gamboa. Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, initiative launched on May 28, 2019.
The National Service of Natural Protected Areas – Sernanp has the privilege of ensuring the conservation of Peruvian natural protected areas (ANP), which represent key spaces for the generation of goods and services for local populations and contribute to the country's economic development. We cite as an example the export agriculture irrigated by the Santa River that originates in Huascarán National Park or the protected natural areas of Amazonian forests that provide clean air to the citizens of the world.
Aware of the contribution of protected natural areas to improving the quality of life of the populations and to the development of the country, The Ministry of the Environment and Sernanp designed the “Natural Heritage of Peru” initiative (PdP) which, through non-refundable donations, aims to improve the management and sustainability conditions of protected natural areas in the long term.
The PdP Initiative was designed to be implemented in three phases in the following order: Amazon, Coast and Highlands. Thus, on this day 2 years ago, the Minam and the Sernanp, accompanied by their allies for this challenge, Profonanpe, World Wildlife Fund, Andes Amazon Fund, Adaptation Fund, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Global Environment Facility and the Development Bank of the Federal Republic of Germany (KfW), They signed a commitment to contribute tangibly to the improvement of management in the 86% of the National System of Protected Natural Areas by the State which, with its 16.7 million hectares, is equivalent to almost the entire surface area of Uruguay.
In these two challenging years of implementing one of the most ambitious initiatives of its kind in the country, we highlight resilience in the management of protected natural areas and the advances in the organization for the effective implementation of increasing and more sustainable financing, where the management of protected natural areas is being adapted, and with it, the Initiative. An example of this is the activation of the safeguards associated with biosecurity and the promotion of a fund for the reactivation of economic activities in favor of management groups of the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, impacting in the lives of three hundred and ninety families from management groups of the taricaya, and reducing the negative economic effects of the pandemic on the beneficiary communities.
Despite the actions and strategies mentioned, The search for financing and implementation of sustainable activities is a dynamic process, This prompts us to explore new ways to keep fundraising and interaction strategies with protected natural areas (ANP) current. One of the new challenges It revolves around identifying opportunities and designing innovative strategies to incentivize private companies and ordinary citizens, to get involved in the management of protected natural areas for their comprehensive development.
That's why, to commemorate these two years, we invite you to join the action. Contact us if you have ideas to improve the conservation of protected natural areas or collaborate with the "Sponsor a Taricaya Turtle, Conserve Pacaya" campaign., This project helps ensure the livelihoods of families in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve and the conservation of this emblematic species of the Peruvian Amazon. Learn more here: https://profonanpe.org.pe/taricaya/
Join us and let's participate together in this historic opportunity for a #NatureForAll, #NatureForAlways.
