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