Comanagement in the national park of Lanin

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Co-management in the national park of Lanin

• Javiera Rulli
• NRM, September 2004

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Community based natural resource management

• addresses the participation of local communities
• comprises both conservation and development
  objectives
• indigenous people and local communities
• approach with diverse strategies

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Co-management

• participatory, collaborative, joint, mixed,
  multi-party or round-table management
• seeks for social justice and democracy in the
  management of natural resource
• political and historical analysis

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Co-management

• Key axes
• diversity of interests
• transparency of the process
• consensus

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Study case NP Lanin

• South of the province of Neuquen, Argentina
• Patagonian
• Andean Forest
• 379.000 ha
• founded in
• 1937

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Mapuches in NP lanin

• 8 Mapuce communities
• small rural subsistence producers
• sheep and goat ranching
• timber exploitation
• recently tourism activities

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Co-management in Lanin

• Severe institutional crisis of National Protected
  Area System
• Community proposes TIP,protected indigenous
  territory
• New dialogue and relation
• ILO 169 , Biodiversity Convention

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First meeting of TIP

• Multiple participation
• Territory
• Co-management
• Link between cultural and biological diversity

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Co-management coordination
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Conclusions

• slow process in order to set a participatory and
  transparent basis
• land tenure issues
• legal framework
• empowering of communities
• regional authorities and private owners can be an
  obstacle

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