GLIN==> Please join us August 3 for a CILER-GLERL seminar presentation by Brazilian biologist Marco Bueno

_Presentation Title_:

Brazil´s Amazon Region Protected Areas Programme (ARPA): A success story 
of society´s involvement in biodiversity conservation

_Abstract_:

Brazil´s Amazon Region Protected Areas Programme (ARPA) is the largest 
worldwide initiative in tropical forest conservation, aiming to protect 
600,000 km² of biologically priority areas between 2003 and 2016 through 
the establishment and permanent financial sustainability of parks and 
reserves. We present here the major results of ARPA in its first phase 
(2003-2009): almost 30% of all protected areas (PA) in Brazilian Amazon 
today are supported by ARPA (64 PA covering 320,000 km²); half of ARPA 
PA (extractive reserves and sustainable development reserves) directly 
benefit local human communities; ARPA PA hold decreased deforestation 
rates as compared to other PA in Amazon; ARPA protection holds the 
potential to reduce 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050; 
increased efficiency in PA implementation; increased society´s 
engagement in PA councils. ARPA has been innovative in developing 
decision support tools to manage effectiveness and prioritize 
investments in PA, in developing financial mechanisms to allow PA to be 
sustainable in the long term and in engaging a wide range of 
stakeholders (local human communities, governments at all levels, 
non-governmental organisations and the private sector) in its 
decision-making processes, proving to be a promising model of 
participatory PA management and biodiversity conservation.

_Biography_:

Marco Bueno is a Brazilian biologist and holds a Master´s degree in 
Environmental Management (University of Nottingham, UK). Marco works as 
an environmental analyst at ARPA, the Amazon Region Protected Areas 
Programme (ARPA) at the Ministry of Environment of Brazil. ARPA is the 
largest initiative in tropical forest conservation in the world and 
Marco is in charge of planning and coordinating the implementation of 
the ARPA component concerning the integration of local human communities 
with protected areas management.

_Date, Time and Location_:

Wednesday, August 3 at 10:30

Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
Lake Superior Hall
4840 S. State Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI  48108-9719


Please post the attached PDF of this announcement.


-- 
Sander D. Robinson
Outreach Director and Administrative Coordinator
Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER)
4840 S. State Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI  48108
(734)741-2172
Alternate E-mail:sanderdr at umich.edu


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