Work Package 9 Impact of Ecotourism

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Work Package 9Impact of Ecotourism
Fundación Malpelo

• Coordinators
• Charles Darwin Foundation
• (Galapagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador)
• ECOLAP/ USFQ
• (Machalilla National Park, Ecuador)
• WP members
• CDF
• ECOLAP/ USFQ
• Fundación Malpelo (Colombia)

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WP 9 Ecosystems of study

• Galápagos Marine Reserve (Ecuador)
• Machalilla National Park (Ecuador)
• Sanctuary of Flora and Fauna Malpelo (Colombia)
• Gorgona National Natural Park (Colombia)

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WP 9 Ecosystems of study

• Great differences - size, accessibility, academic
  level, infrastructure, number of visitors and
  management.
• Efforts currently made to regulate marine
  ecotourism activities
• Comparison between MPAs has allowed to identify
  and evaluate approaches to sustainable marine
  ecotourism at local and regional levels

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WP 9 Objectives

• To provide scientific basis for the management of
  marine ecotourism in protected areas
• Determine the most appropriate criteria to
  evaluate the impact of ecotourism in MPAs based
  on threshold values
• Design and define indicators that respond to
  those criteria
• Identify and implement efficient, cost-effective
  monitoring protocols for the indicators
• Assess human impacts on biological communities at
  specific sites and benefits to human communities
  and management systems through the application of
  the monitoring protocols
• Elaborate/improve conservation and management
  strategies for the MPAs through the suggestion of
  management responses based on monitoring
  activities

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WP 9 Results

• CI battery tested by the four MPAs and redefined
  for global application
• Monitoring protocols improved and threshold
  values defined for both MPA and regional levels
• Management responses suggested

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WP 9 Deliverable accomplished
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PRODUCTS
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WP 9 Regional battery of Criteria Indicators
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WP 9 Regional battery of Criteria Indicators

• Pertinence the indicator responds to a specific
  attribute and provides information that allows
  proposing variation ranges
• Feasibility it is possible to verify the
  information provided by the indicator and, then,
  it is a trustable source of information for the
  decision makers
• Clarity the objective, method and other elements
  are understandable to those who apply the
  indicator detecting, collecting and interpreting
  the indicator is easy
• Reliability data are clearly replicable
• Comparability the possibility to compare
  information in time and space exists

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WP 9 Monitoring protocols
Name of the indicator 1. Description of the
indicator Objective, basic aspects of the
methodology and value of its application for
management purposes 2. Measurement unit of the
indicator 3. Methodology 3.1. Steps to
calculate de indicator 3.2. Formula of the
indicator
Where 3.3.
Threshold values
3.4. Presentation of the results Graphs, tables
and figures that provide a simple visualization
of the results 3.5. Possible limitations in the
methodology of the indicator 4. Relationship
with other indicators 5. Proposed pediodicity
for data collection 6. Bibliographic
documentation related to the indicator 7.
Comments Date Author
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WP 9 Threshold values and Management responses
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WP 9 Threshold values and Management responses
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WP 9 Threshold values and Management responses
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WP 9 Threshold values and Management responses
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WP 9 Pending deliverables
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WP 9 Publications

• Scientific and technical documents
• Cubero-Pardo P. In prep. Codigo de Conducta para
  Actividades Ecoturisticas en Sitios de Visita
  Marinos Reserva Marina de Galapagos. Ecuador -
  Printed Spanish and digital English versions
• Cubero-Pardo P., H. Zambrano, L. Chasqui-Velasco,
  C. Martinez, P. Herron y G. Reck. 2007.
  Contribución al manejo de turismo en ecosistemas
  marinos Criterios e Indicadores para evaluar el
  impacto del ecoturismo en Areas Marinas
  Protegidas II Congreso de Parques Nacionales y
  otras Áreas Protegidas, Bariloche, Argentina. 9
  pp. Grey Literature.
• Cubero-Pardo, P., P. Herrón y F. González. In
  prep. Assessing the effect of SCUBA diving on
  sharks in two Marine Protected Areas of the
  Eastern Tropical Pacific -Tourism in Marine
  Environments
• González, F, y P. Cubero. In prep. Efecto a corto
  plazo del tipo de actividad turística en el
  comportamiento de fauna representativa de las
  Islas Galápagos Revista Investigaciones Marinas
• Green, E., P. Cubero-Pardo, F. González. In prep.
  Marine megafuana responses to SCUBA diving
  tourism in the Galapagos Marine Reserve an
  impact assessment Journal of Conservation
  Biology
• Martinez, C. In prep. Las actividades turisticas
  de observacion de ballenas en la zona Costero
  insular de Ecudor y Colombia y su impacto sobre
  las poblaciones de Ballena Jorobada, Megaptera
  novaengliae To be defined
• Martinez C. In prep. Codigo de Conducta para
  Guias y Visitantes del Parque Nacional
  Machalilla, Ecuador Printed version
• Zambrano, H., P. Herron and L. Barreto. In prep.
  Codigo de Conducta para Guias y Visitantes del
  Santuario de Flora y Fauna Malpelo y el Parque
  Nacional Natural Gorgona, Colombia Printed
  version
• Zambrano, H., P. Herron, L. Barreto, C. Martinez
  y P. Cubero-Pardo. In prep. Indicadores para
  evaluación de impacto de ecoturismo en áreas
  marinas protegidas To be defined

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Next Steps

• To insert the CI System proposed in the visitor
  management plans of the MPAs involved in this
  project
• To follow-up the concepts and methodologies
  developed through WP9 to provide appropriate
  adjustments accoridng to the requirements of the
  MPAs
• To insert the concepts and tools proposed as part
  of proceses to evaluate the impact of ecotourism
  in the Marine Corridor of the Eastern Tropical
  Pacific - CMAR
• To establish communication with MPA networks at
  regional or global levels involved with marine
  ecotourism and promote the CI System

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WP9 Step by step tool

• http//www.incofish.org/Workpackages/WP9/Tourism_I
  mpact.php

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