Laguna del Tigre National

Park and Biotope, Maya

Biosphere Reserve,
Guatemala

Carlos Albacete
Trópico Verde / ParksWatch
Guatemala
 Ramsar 1990

Central America
Guatemala

Ib IUCN mgt.
289 912 category
ha

45 168
ha

Tehuantepec
Moist Forest
(Terrestrial
2001/03/05/08 Ecoregions
Dinerstein et al.,
2000)

335 080 ha – Created in 1990 / 2 management unities /CECON

CONAP
• Database
• Park profile
 Our strategy:

Science Science & activism

Easily accessible

Present to
Research
audiences
Advocacy
Accurate
information pressure
Publicize
Leads to
Update Changes

Data base Profile & other materials

Threats Some threats in Highest
range of our methodology

Related to permanent human settlements

 Visual materials for the profile

Forest fires invasions

Deforestation follows the road built for oil exploitation
 De fore stación anual e n la Laguna de l Tigre e ntre 2000 y 2004

6438.6 ha
Rising deforestation rates since 1999

5536.98 ha

901.62 ha

2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004

Parque
Parque + biotopo
Biotopo
 Personnel and budget
Campaign

Law enforcement
Bruner A., R Gullison, R. Rice,G.da Fonseca, 2001. Effectiveness of parks in protecting tropical biodiversity.
Science 291 (enero 2001)
Added components to the profile

Tapirus
bairdii
Added components to the profile
 2004
Laguna del Changes
Tigre
800000

700000

600000

500000

2001-2006
400000

300000

200000

100000

0
Presupuesto Presupuesto Presupuesto presupuesto
2003 2004 2005 2006

2004
97% increased budget

Advocacy/ pressure

2004
100% increased staff

Research 2001 2003

Updates 2003 /2005/2008

2006
New Management Plan

2006 Return of 10 usurped

lands to the State
 Budget increases
800000 Laguna del Tigre

700000

600000

500000

400000

300000

200000

100000

0
Presupuesto Presupuesto Presupuesto presupuesto
2003 2004 2005 2006
Personal/ha

100 % increase
New zones
 Debt for Nature
Agreement

DFN Areas of
investment

$24 million the largest pact in the history of the U.S. Tropical Forest
Conservation Act
 Key aspects

Flexible methodology
• Identification of audiences
• Using new tools that help better understand the problem (maintaining our
protocol)

Periodical monitoring of the area

Proposing solutions
• Facilitated the decision making process
• Useful to monitor our own theory of change

Presentations, advocacy and media

• Designed as a marketing campaign with measurable and
verifiable goals and dates
• Preparing materials to be easily understandable
• Media strategy
• Longer timing than the evaluation by itself (40 % vs. 60 %)

Independent evaluation
• Facilitated the understanding of problems and pressure activities