Políticas Públicas: Visión general y realidad en el Parque Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica

<p>Costa Rica has a set of policies emerged from a process of improvement and analysis of previous instruments and the need to consolidate the management of the Wildlife Protected Areas of the country. In this article, we review the overall framework of public policies, what it means and what it should cover; and finish with a review the overall policy framework of protected areas in Costa Rica with a focus on its application in Isla del Coco National Park. Policies must be improved, including budget, indicators and verification.</p><div> </div>

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Conservation of Biodiversity and Poverty in Costa Rica: Analysis by Planning Regions

Revista ABRA ◽

10.15359/abra.38-57.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (57) ◽

pp. 33 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Steven Arroyo-Zeledón ◽

Guillermo Zúñiga-Arias

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Social Development ◽

Protected Areas ◽

National Park ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Costa Rican ◽

The Creation ◽

Conservation Of Biodiversity

One of the main strategies to preserve biodiversity has been the creation of protected areas, and some authors argue that such action will also have economic benefits for the human communities involved. Nevertheless, in several countries a spatial coincidence between these areas and poverty has been registered. This work evaluated whether there was more poverty in Costa Rican districts that have larger areas in inland national park or biological reserves. As an estimator of poverty in the districts, the Costa Rican index of social development (ISD) was used. For the whole country, districts with protected (DPA) areas had a lower ISD than those without them (DNPA). This result was also observed in the Central and Huetar Caribe planning regions; the opposite happened in the Huetar Norte region. The differences between planning regions offer opportunities for further research.

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Survival of protected white-lipped peccaries in Costa Rica

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z02-020 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 80 (3) ◽

pp. 586-589 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Todd K Fuller ◽

Eduardo Carrillo ◽

Joel C Saenz

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Central America ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

National Park ◽

Human Population ◽

Annual Survival ◽

Tayassu Pecari ◽

Specific Mortality ◽

Corcovado National Park

The conservation of remnant populations of white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari) in Central America depends on understanding their demography, but few quantitative data exist. We report survival and cause-specific mortality of 25 female and 11 male radio-marked adult (>1.0 year old) white-lipped peccaries monitored during February 1995 February 2001 in Corcovado National Park, their largest stronghold in Costa Rica. Annual survival was lower for female (0.78; 95% CI = 0.680.88) than for male (0.94; 95% CI = 0.861.00) peccaries. Both sexes were poached and died in accidents but only females were killed by predators or died of unknown causes (but not poaching). In comparison with the demography of collared peccaries (Tayassu tajacu), the population of white-lipped peccaries in Corcovado National Park may be maintaining itself. Still, protected areas may need to be expanded and (or) more forcefully monitored to sustain white-lipped peccaries throughout their range if additional use by humans is likely to occur, especially given stochastic population processes and human population increases.

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Wildlife Diversity and Relative Abundance among a Variety of Adjacent Protected Areas in the Northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica

Diversity ◽

10.3390/d12040134 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 134 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carolina Sáenz-Bolaños ◽

Todd K. Fuller ◽

Eduardo Carrillo J.

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Relative Abundance ◽

Human Activities ◽

National Park ◽

Bird Species ◽

Camera Traps ◽

Conservation Strategy ◽

Species Abundances ◽

Indigenous Territories

Protected areas are intended to achieve the long-term conservation of nature, but not all such areas are equal in their effectiveness because of their varying regulation of human activities. In Costa Rica, we assessed mammal and bird species presence and relative abundance in three protected areas in the northern Talamanca Mountains. In this humid tropical forest area, we placed camera traps in an adjacent national park, forest reserve, and indigenous territories, each with a different mix of human activities. In 10,120 trap nights, we obtained 6181 independent photos of mostly mammals (34 species other than humans) and birds (34 species). Species with greater abundance or only occurrence in the national park were mammals and birds commonly hunted outside of the park, large carnivores rarely documented in other areas, and poachers. Species found more often outside of the park were medium-sized mammals, some birds, and domestic mammals. We conclude that even in the same ecological area, varying regulations related to type of protected area have significant effects on some mammal and bird species abundances and occurrences, and thus need to be considered when assessing the overall effectiveness of protection as a conservation strategy.

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Fauna of Protected Areas - 30: New additions to the ichthyofauna of Keoladeo National Park, a world heritage site in India

Zoos Print Journal ◽

10.11609/jott.zpj.1648.2848-52 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 22 (10) ◽

pp. 2848-2852 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

B. Anjan Kumar Prusty ◽

Rachna Chandra ◽

P.A. Azeez ◽

L.L. Sharma

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

National Park ◽

World Heritage ◽

World Heritage Site ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Keoladeo National Park

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Fauna of Protected Areas - 28: Additions to the mantid fauna (Insecta: Mantodea) of Pench National Park, Maharashtra, India

Zoos Print Journal ◽

10.11609/jott.zpj.1474.2261-2 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 21 (5) ◽

pp. 2261-2262 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S.S. Jadhav ◽

P.M. Sureshan ◽

H.V. Ghate

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

National Park

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No Limits of Acceptable Change: A Proposed Research Framework for Informing Visitor Use Management in the Context of Cultural Resources

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13010377 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 377

Author(s):

Zachary D. Miller ◽

Wayne Freimund ◽

Stefani A. Crabtree ◽

Ethan P. Ryan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Human Activities ◽

National Park ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

Cultural Resource ◽

Limits Of Acceptable Change ◽

The Us ◽

Visitor Use ◽

Material Evidence

Cultural resources are commonly defined as resources that provide material evidence of past human activities. These resources are unique, as they are both finite and non-renewable. This provides a challenge for traditional visitor use management since these resources have no limits of acceptable change. However, with nearly every national park in the US containing cultural resources, coupled with ever-growing visitation, it is essential that managers of parks and protected areas have the ability to make science-informed decisions about cultural resources in the context of visitor use management. We propose a framework that can help provide context and exploration for these challenges. Drawing on previous literature, this framework includes risk-based approaches to decision making about visitor use; visitor cognitions related to cultural resources; emotions, mood, and affect related to cultural resource experiences; creating and evaluating interpretive programs; deviant visitor behaviors related to cultural resources; and co-management.

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