In January, we celebrated the second anniversary of the official launch of the Nationwide Fowl Conservation Technique in Chile (ENCAChile), an unprecedented collaborative platform composed of eight public companies, eight NGOs, and 9 analysis facilities. The objective 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 Setting, 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 chook monitoring program has been created in Chile; websites of significance for marine and coastal birds have been recognized and prioritized: and the incorporation of essentially the most threatened birds into the analysis of their conservation standing is being strongly supported. Different accomplishments thus far embrace an evaluation of gaps and alternatives to strengthen public insurance policies, a monetary plan, a market evaluation of chook tourism in Chile, and the formalization of the motion plan for the conservation of shorebirds in Chile. Studies with observations and options for the sustainable improvement of wind power in Chile have additionally been created, in addition to many different actions.
With a robust dedication to selling birdwatching within the nation and aligned with ENCAChile’s objective of strengthening this space[2], one among Audubon’s main contributions to the implementation of the Technique is funding and growing the primary birdwatching market evaluation within the nation, together with Fernweh Consulting. This evaluation has made it doable to evaluate the scale of this market in Chile, and the comparative benefits of the nation, and to profile Chilean and overseas birdwatchers based on their preferences, frequency of journeys, and funds. For instance, at this time we all know that in Chile the specialised birdwatching market generates $62.6 million a yr and that the overseas birdwatcher, on common, spends 6.5 instances extra individually than the typical overseas vacationer.
Audubon is growing the Coaching Course for Naturalist Birdwatching Guides, carried out along with Fundación Legado Chile, Birds Chile, and the ROC (Fowl 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 improvement.
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 will probably be extremely helpful not just for chook 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 essential paperwork that purpose to strengthen chook 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 determine 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 provides nice enter for one of the vital essential actions of the technique[5]: to determine and prioritize websites of significance for birds in Chile.
The event and implementation of ENCAChile has a robust participatory focus. Greater than 2,200 folks participated in its improvement. Sixty-five folks have already been actively and instantly concerned in its implementation; greater than 60 folks attended the launch of the committee; greater than 40 folks 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, wherein greater than 200 folks have participated.
This manner, in its implementation, the Technique integrates human well-being transversally. It’s because we’re satisfied that biodiversity conservation and improvement will not be at odds. Quite the opposite, they share a standard path the place pure ecosystems are basic in attaining sustainable improvement.
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] Fowl Technique Motion 17: Develop motion plans for teams of birds requiring site-specific administration and planning.
[2] Fowl Technique Motion 14: Promote chook tourism in Chile.
[3] Fowl Technique Motion 15: Develop a monetary and marketing strategy for the Technique.
[4] Fowl Technique Actions: 8-10; 33-44.
[5] Fowl Technique Motion 1: Establish and prioritize websites of significance for these species in Chile.
