(COMISION PERMANENTE DEL PACIFICO SUR) THE PERMANENT COMMISSION FOR THE SOUTH PACIFIC ()

(COMISION PERMANENTE DEL PACIFICO SUR)

THE PERMANENT COMMISSION FOR THE SOUTH PACIFIC(www.cpps-int.org)

CPPS

Members States

PANAMA COLOMBIAECUADOR

PERUCHILE

LIMA CONVENTION(1981)

Update of Activities (2011)

MARINE BIODIVERSITY- COASTAL WATERS AND HIGH SEAS

MARINE AND COASTAL INVASIVE SPECIES AND BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

ECONOMIC VALUATION OF MARINE AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

GPA IMPLEMENTATION AND THE REGIONAL SEAS PROGRAMMES

MARINE BIODIVERSITY- COASTAL WATERS AND HIGH SEAS

Regional Network of Marine Protected Areas of the SEP Regional Program for the Conservation of Marine Turtles

in the SEP Plan of Action for the protection of Marine Mammals in

the SEP Marine Mammal Corridors & Critical Habitats of the SEP

(UNEP/Spain/CPPS) SPINCAM (South Pacific Information Network in support

of ICAM) – IOC/Flanders SIBIMAP: Information System for Marine and Coastal

Biodiversity

Regional Network of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas in the SEP

Protocol for Protection and Conservation of MCPA-N

Guidelines for establishment of MCPA-N

Publication: SEP Network of the MCPAs

Recent Activities: 2010:Updated version of the Pub. SEP Network,

including governance and financial issues 2011: Workshop on Tools or Management of

MCPAs (Chile, Spt 5-9th) CPPS/NOAA

Regional Program for the Conservation of Marine Turtles in the SEP

2007: Regional Program for the Conservation of Marine Turtles.

Recent Activities: 2010: II Meeting of the Technical and

Scientific Committee and standardization of reporting for marine turtles in the SEP.

2011: Assessments - National diagnostics for establishing a baseline on the populations of marine turtles in the SEP

Oct. 6-9th: Training field course on collection of biological parameters of turtles (Panama)

Plan of Action for the Protection of Marine Mammals in the SEP

1991: States of the Lima Convention adopted the Plan of Action for the Protection of MM y the SEP.

Recent Activities 2010: Publication of 5 Pilot Projects

on interactions between MM and fisheries

2011: Meeting for the installation of the Regional Scientific and Technical Committee on Marine mammals of the SEP (Focal Points / Work plan 2011-2012)

Marine Mammal Corridors & Critical Habitats of the SEP (UNEP/Spain/CPPS)

2011: CPPS and UNEP signed a small scale funding agreement to implement 2 projects: Design and conduct an economic valuation

of selected marine and coastal ecosystem services, and

Coordination and implementation of ‘LifeWeb Marine Mammal and Marine Spatial Planning’ project

May 2011: Meeting selected 5 species to be mapped at agreed spatial and temporal scales.

Mapping is in progress with support of GRID-Arendal within the CPPS GIS

SPINCAM (South Pacific Information Network in support of ICAM)

2008: Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project with support of IOC and Gov. Flanders.

2009: Set of Regional Indicators developed for the SEP

Recent Activities (2011) Upgrade Computing facilities for

mapping coastal zone data. Training course on Geonetwork (Col.) Training course on Cartographic

servers and visual tools. Regional meeting on data repositories

and Atlas tools (Panama).

SIBIMAP: Information System for Marine and Coastal Biodiversity

2009: Executive Secretariat initiated a Biological Information System project for the SEP as a complementary toll of SIBIMAP Develop an online tool for management of

information on species conservation and MPAs. Provide an interface for mapping of biological

and environmental data Provide date for regional cooperation in marine

conservation System is based on a Google Earth apps.

This project has collected published and non publish data available, for public use.

MARINE AND COASTAL INVASIVE SPECIES AND BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

2008: IMO/UNEP/GEF Project to reduce the transfer of invasive species in developing countries.

2009: A Regional Strategy and a PoA for ballast water management was made.

III Regional Task group meetings have guided the implementation of the project

Recent Activities 2011: Workshop on sampling and analysis

techniques for ballast water (Valparaiso – Chile).

ECONOMIC VALUATION OF MARINE AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

2010: UNEP and CPPS initiated a Project on Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services. Ecosystem base approach for marine resources

management. Methodology developed by the MgGill University (Canada) Co financed activity CPPS/UNEP

Recent Activities May 2011: Workshop on Methodology for economic

valuation for ecosystem services (Guayaquil) 2 Pilot Projects from the region have been selected

to apply the methodology with technical support of McGill Univ.

GPA IMPLEMENTATION AND THE REGIONAL SEAS PROGRAMMES

2006: II Intergovernmental Meeting (Beijing) guidance on Marine Conservation as a toll to reach the Millennium Objectives

2009: Regional Workshop to incorporate the Marine and Coastal issues in the Planning and Budgeting processes in the SEP states.

Recent Activities The Executive Secretariat has presented UNEP a

proposal to carry out 5 national workshops related to the incorporation of Marine issues in the planning and budgeting process of each state.

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