Co-management in the national park of Lanin Javiera Rulli NRM, September 2004
Co-management in the national park of Lanin
Javiera Rulli NRM, September 2004
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
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
Co-management
Key axes:• diversity of interests• transparency of the process • consensus
Study case: NP Lanin
• South of the province of Neuquen, Argentina
• Patagonian Andean Forest • 379.000 ha • founded in 1937
Mapuches in NP lanin
• 8 Mapuce communities • small rural subsistence producers • sheep and goat ranching • timber exploitation• recently tourism activities
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
First meeting of TIP
• Multiple participation• Territory• Co-management• Link between cultural and
biological diversity
Co-management coordination
Directive community
Community
Local Committe Management Committe
Local Park ranger
Co-management
area
Members:-4 COM-4 APN-1INAI
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