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The Amazon Protected Areas Network
RANPA
Alvaro Espinel
Senior Environmental Information Specialist
Department of Sustainable Development
Organization of American States
Washington, D.C.
[email protected]
"Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information
in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for
Sustainable Development", Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil
May 8 to 10, 2007
AMAZON – ANDES PROTECTED AREAS
INFORMATION DATABASE
 Some Geographical and Historical Background
 Project goals
 Strategies and Previous Events
 Project products and Services
 Sharing Data, Metadata, Information, Knowledge
and Influence Policies – The learning feedback
 Next steps
The Amazon Region
 > 35% world’s species
 1.5 million square miles forest
 2500 tree species (1/3)
 30 k/100k plant species of
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latinamerica
2.2 million sq miles basin
4000 miles length river
46000 gal/sec 20% total
discharge
3000 spp fishes freshwater
1.5 – 2 million ha deforestation
per year
SURAPA (1996-2000)
• EU
•CI
•FAO
•TCA
Andes Amazon Protected Areas DataBaseAAPAD
GOALS
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Design and structure the AAPAD
to be compatible with other PA
Databases.
Development of indicators useful
for investors and donors.
Development of international
standards and protocols.
Update AAPAD structure in
sustainable way.
Andes Amazon Protected Areas Database
Pilot project 2005
I Workshop Andes Amazon Protected Areas Database
Gamboa – Panamá 2005
 Executed by the Department of Sustainable
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Development and Environment at OAS
Database is updated by the governmental
representatives of the National Conservation
Areas of the countries
Official representation of Bolivia, Brazil,
Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela
Delegated No official representation of
Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname
Other participants: IABIN, OAS, Gordon and
Betty Moore, WWF, ParksWatch, Trimble.
Phase 2, Financial Support Approved
December 2005 until 2008 Gordon and
Betty Moore Foundation
ESRI grant for software and training in
Geomatics
Online DataBase Public Domain:
RANPA.net
Data captured and disseminated
on line.
Updated by the participants.
II Workshop in Amacayacu, Colombia
JULY 10-16 2006
•25 official delegates from 7 Amazon countries
•30 from Colombia
•OTCA, GTZ, Holland Embassy, INPA &INPE (Brazil)
III Workshop in Quito (Cuyabeno)- Ecuador
JULY 23-31 2007
Ministry of the Environment- Directorate of Biodiversity and Protected Areas
TOPICS
•Data Interoperability
•PA in the country borders
•Payment for Ecosystem
Services
Collaborations
NASA – JPL in the PAA. Gary Geller
 ASTER and LANDSAT (80-90-00)
 TerraLook a public Domain tool
to handle images for
Conservation Areas Management
Collaboration with the U. of Maryland (Dept. of Geography) –
Diane Davies
Strengthtening the Institutions
Training and tools in Geomatics
Global Positioning System
Geographic Information
System
Remote Sensing and Image
Processing
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MODIS
LandSat
ASTER
CBERS (Brazil- China)
Deforestation
Use of satellite
images
… evaluation of
conservation
effectiveness
Payment for Ecosystem Services DataBase
Environmental Services
 Public Payment Scheme;
 Self-organized Private Deals
 Open Trading;
 EcoLabelling
Andes Amazon Protected Areas Database
Other Collaborations
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BioParques (Venezuela).
Evaluation of Conservation Areas
Amazon Conservation Association
Instituto Venezolano de
Investigaciones Cientficas-IVIC:
EcoSIG & CIET (Centro de
Investigaciones en Ecologica
Tropical)
German International Cooperation
Agency - GTZ
The Governmental institutions for
the Protected Areas of the Amazon
Basin Countries.
Brazilian Ministry of the
Environment National Service of
Information on Conservation Units.
Levels in the Information Process
Sustainable
Actions
Knowledge
Information
MetaData
Data
• SUSTAINABLE ACTIONSPolicies & Legislation
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• KNOWLEDGE– Prediction
tools
• INFORMATION– Decision
making tools, indicators.
• METADATA – Reference to
datasets and knowledge objects
(quality, availability, property,
etc.)
• DATA – observations or
measurements recorded and
reported in a standard way
Metadata Strategy
 Defining the basic elements for identification,
evaluation, accessibility, and improve conservation
purposes using a Lingua Franca.
 Essential objects (people, organizations, documents,
species, locations).
 Strategies to use and make useful metadata to avoid
duplication.
 Incentives to propagate the metadata in the network
(Horizontal Cooperation, Comparison /measurement
framework, competitiveness, Knowledge and
experiences interchange).
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
FOR
DATA SHARING
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INTEROPERABILITY
XML SCHEMA Design
XSD
Remote
Process
XML
•XSL/XSLT
SOAP
PDF
HTML
WML
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RDBMS
XMLDB
Next Steps
 Harmonize the Schemas with the
Brazilian System for Conservation
Units (SNUC)
 Synchronize the database creating an
Spanish – Portuguese translator
 Train the Park Managers on XML
technology
 Disseminate the automatic system in
the PA governments of the Amazon
Basin – adjusted to their own
requirements but keeping the bridges
between the other countries.
Thank you!
Pictures: Gary Geller NASA-JPL, and Wealth of the Rainforest, Pharmacy to the World, by
Leslie Taylor, Copyrighted 1996-2006 by Raintree Nutrition, Inc. Carson City, NV. 89701 Online
at http://www.rain-tree.com and A.Espinel,