In January, we celebrated the second anniversary of the official launch of the Nationwide Chook Conservation Technique in Chile (ENCAChile), an unprecedented collaborative platform composed of eight public providers, eight NGOs, and 9 analysis facilities. The purpose of this collaboration is to strengthen the conservation of birds and their habitats within the nation.
Along with these 24 establishments, Audubon is sharing its strategic imaginative and prescient, funding, and expertise as a member of the Board of Administrators, the Public Coverage Working Group, and as a facilitator of the Funding Working Group. As well as, together with the Ministry of the Atmosphere, Audubon is coordinating the event of Motion Plans for the Conservation of Seabirds and Wetlands and is a part of the driving group for the Shorebird Conservation Motion Plan[1].
The Technique has made notable progress in these two years. Along with officializing this inter-institutional collaborative platform (the implementation committee), a nationwide hen monitoring program has been created in Chile; websites of significance for marine and coastal birds have been recognized and prioritized: and the incorporation of probably the most threatened birds into the analysis of their conservation standing is being strongly supported. Different accomplishments to this point embody an evaluation of gaps and alternatives to strengthen public insurance policies, a monetary plan, a market evaluation of hen tourism in Chile, and the formalization of the motion plan for the conservation of shorebirds in Chile. Reviews with observations and solutions for the sustainable growth of wind vitality in Chile have additionally been created, in addition to many different actions.
With a powerful dedication to selling birdwatching within the nation and aligned with ENCAChile’s purpose of strengthening this space[2], one among Audubon’s main contributions to the implementation of the Technique is funding and creating the primary birdwatching market evaluation within the nation, together with Fernweh Consulting. This evaluation has made it doable to evaluate the dimensions of this market in Chile, and the comparative benefits of the nation, and to profile Chilean and international birdwatchers in line with their preferences, frequency of journeys, and price range. For instance, immediately we all know that in Chile the specialised birdwatching market generates $62.6 million a yr and that the international birdwatcher, on common, spends 6.5 occasions extra individually than the typical international vacationer.
Audubon is creating the Coaching Course for Naturalist Birdwatching Guides, carried out along with Fundación Legado Chile, Birds Chile, and the ROC (Chook and Wildlife Observers Community of Chile) to increase its impression to native communities. This initiative seeks to coach 31 birding guides in three areas—Valparaíso, Bíobío, and La Araucanía—contributing to the conservation of biocultural heritage and selling native financial growth.
Audubon additionally leads the Financing Working Group, which oversees estimating the implementation funding and figuring out financing mechanisms for the ENCA. This evaluation and the monetary plan[3] revealed a key discovering: the Technique has a really optimistic cost-benefit ratio. In different phrases, investing within the implementation of this technique is handy, and it will likely be extremely helpful not just for hen conservation but in addition for biodiversity conservation within the nation.
In these two years of implementation, Audubon’s work together with different establishments has led to the creation of two necessary paperwork that goal to strengthen hen conservation within the nationwide territory. The primary of those is the Public Coverage Hole Evaluation, which sought to visualise alternatives for the implementation of 15 actions[4] associated to the strengthening of ENCAChile’s public insurance policies (for instance, incorporating the Technique, birds, and their habitats within the Strategic Environmental Evaluation of Territorial Planning Devices). As such, a possibility was visualized within the creation of the laws of the brand new Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service, to combine the Technique and its actions into the regulatory framework.
The second doc is the Spatial Evaluation to establish Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) of Shorebirds and Seabirds in Chile, which recognized 245 of those websites within the nation. This evaluation and doc is a gigantic development and presents nice enter for probably the most necessary actions of the technique[5]: to establish and prioritize websites of significance for birds in Chile.
The event and implementation of ENCAChile has a powerful participatory focus. Greater than 2,200 individuals participated in its growth. Sixty-five individuals have already been actively and immediately concerned in its implementation; greater than 60 individuals attended the launch of the committee; greater than 40 individuals have participated within the coaching of native guides in birdwatching; and macro-zonal workshops have been held within the framework of the work with shorebirds and seabirds, by which greater than 200 individuals have participated.
This fashion, in its implementation, the Technique integrates human well-being transversally. It is because we’re satisfied that biodiversity conservation and growth are usually not at odds. Quite the opposite, they share a standard path the place pure ecosystems are basic in attaining sustainable growth.
We firmly imagine that by selling the conservation of birds and their pure habitats, we’re defending current and future generations. Audubon celebrates these advances and appears ahead to persevering with to strengthen this nice alliance with NGOs, public organizations, and analysis facilities.
[1] Chook Technique Motion 17: Develop motion plans for teams of birds requiring site-specific administration and planning.
[2] Chook Technique Motion 14: Promote hen tourism in Chile.
[3] Chook Technique Motion 15: Develop a monetary and marketing strategy for the Technique.
[4] Chook Technique Actions: 8-10; 33-44.
[5] Chook Technique Motion 1: Establish and prioritize websites of significance for these species in Chile.
