Fausto Gmez Pezzotti

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Fausto Gómez Pezzotti TNC-Dominican Republic
Program
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Conservation Approach

• To fulfill our long-term vision and achieve our
  goals, The Nature Conservancy employs an
  integrated conservation process comprised of four
  fundamental components

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• Setting priorities through
• ecoregional planning and global
• habitat assessments.
• Developing strategies at multiple scales to
  address ecoregional priorities and global
  threats.
• Taking direct conservation action and
• Measuring conservation success.

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Setting Priorities

• The Conservancy sets priorities two ways through
  global major habitat type assessments and through
  ecoregional planning.

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GREATER CARIBBEAN ECOREGIONAL PLAN - GEOGRAFIC
AREA
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Developing Strategies

• Single-Area Strategies
• For all priority conservation areas in which the
  Conservancy invests resources directly or through
  partnerships, we employ the 5-S Framework for
  Conservation Project Management.

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The 5-S planning approach focuses on the
following components
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• Systems
• The focal conservation targets and their
• key ecological attributes.
• Stresses The most serious types of destruction
  or
• degradation affecting the conservation
• targets or key ecological attributes.
• Sources of stress The causes or agents of
  destruction or
• degradation.

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• Strategies The full array of actions necessary
  to
• abate the threats or enhance the
• viability of the conservation targets.
• Success measures The monitoring process for
• assessing progress in abating threats
• and improving the biodiversity health of a
  conservation area.

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Taking Action

• In keeping with the Conservancys commitment to
  results, the bulk of our resourceshuman and
  financialare focused on implementing
  well-conceived conservation strategies.

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Measuring Success

• For purposes of assessing progress toward our
  mission, The Nature Conservancy defines
  conservation success as

• the combination of three outcomes the
  maintenance of viable biodiversity, abatement of
  critical threats, and effective protection and
  management of places where we take action with
  partners.

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• A unique Dominican case which is a result, among
  some other facts, of the assisting conservation
  actions of TNC in the Dominican Republic.
• LOS DAJAOS

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Madre de las Aguas Mother of the Waters
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Madre de las Aguas comprises some 320,000
hectares within the Central Mountain Range
(Cordillera Central) of the Dominican Republic
this ecoregion is integrated by five national
parks and two reserves with a territory under
protection equivalent to 7 of the nations land
mass.
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Why the Conservancy Works HereUnsustainable
logging, uncontrolled fires, slash and burn
agriculture, expansion of sun-grown coffee fields
and hillside farming are causing soil erosion and
significant species loss. 
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Strategies being proposed by the Conservancy to
mitigate these threats are reforestation, and
providing help to partner organizations that
undertake economic and community development
projects to build support for conservation work
and alternative livelihoods.
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Madre de las Aguas

Los Dajaos
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Los Dajaos watershed
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Agriculture on high slope
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A plot ready to be planted
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A plot ready to be planted
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Conuco
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Strawberry
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Nursery - Strawberry
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Strawberries are kept in bags
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Strawberry bundle
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Strawberry nursery on deep slope
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1 hectare 16 tareas
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CONUCO VS NURSERY
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Small farmers income

• Before the innovation of the greenhouses
• Working from 1 to 50 tareas 0.063 to 3.13
  hectares
• Less than RD500.00 US14.29 per month
• In rare cases they made up to RD1,000.00
  US28.57
• (exchange rate 35)

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Small farmers income

• After changing the agricultural practice
  (nurseries)
• Working from 1 to 3 tareas 0.063 to 0.2
  hectares
• RD12,333 US352 to RD37,000 US1,057 per
  month
• (exchange rate 35)