Presentation to Sustainable Summits 2014.

1. Importance of Sustainability in
Perú’s Natural Protected Areas
Zara Sánchez
SERNANP
PERU

2. Peru, a mountain country
• Andes Mountains define the
three regions traditionally
used to describe Peru´s
geography: coast, highlands
y jungle.
• Peru maintain 70% of
tropical glaciers in the world
• In 1948 -1970, Cordillera
Blanca have registered a
regression between 50 and
150 m

3. Natural Protected Areas (ANP)
Biome Ecorregion Ecorregion´s cover
in natural protected
area

4. Glaciers and ANP
• PN Huascarán (Áncash)
• ZR Cordillera Huayhuash (Áncash, Huánuco y Lima)
• SN Ampay (Apurimac)
• RN Salinas y Aguada Blanca (Arequipa)
• SH Machupicchu (Cusco)
• BP Pui Pui (Junín)
• RP Nor Yauyos Cochas (Lima y Junín)
• RP Subcuenca del Cotahuasi (Arequipa)

5. Huascaran National Park
• Established on 1st march, 1975
• Located in Ancash – Perú
• 1 155,800.00 ha
• Biosphere Reserve Huascaran,
Recognized by UNESCO in 1977

6. Management model of Natural Protected Areas
Delimited space Authority
Space to make
agreements
Planning
document
Management
resourceResearchTourisim
Comité de
gestión
“Agreement
Space”
Working Groups
Jefatura
del ANP
Objetives Visión
Strategies
Agreements”
Participatory Management
Planning
Initial conditions Expected conditions
Implement
Monitoring
Management Cycle

7. Planning ANP and Climate change
Population of
vicunas
Poaching
Areas under
control
Chaccu
Construir micro presas
Personal
Equipment
Operative
expenses
Primary productivity
Of Grasslands
License
Patrol
Objetive ( 5 years)
Precipitation
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8. Planning in Huascaran
• Model
Infiltración /
ACUÍFERO

9. Working groups – Public Participation
Grassland Management
• Livestock of sheeps, cattle
and south american
camelids.
• Authorization of activities
within the ANP
Solid Waste Management
• Throw of litter on roads
• Grassland users help with
waste management

10. Working groups - Public Participation
Tourism
• Use of donkeys increase soil
compaction.
• Promote use of llamas
• Two kinds of tourists: a)
Conventional, nationals and b)
Adventure, foreigners
• ASAM: “Associations of high
mountain”
• 10% of tickets is for improving
waste management and
tourism conditions
Research
• “ROUTE TO CLIMATE CHANGE”
– Pastoruti
– Climate change transformed
tourism, and affect incomes of
200 family
• 03 infrastructures to give them in
research concesion.

11. Working group - Public Participation
Mining
• 36 mining concession
before 1975.

12. Interest group – Public Participation
Grassland Management Solid Waste Management
Tourism Research
Mining
Committee of Management

13. THANK YOU
SERNANP and
Huascaran National Park Staff
Zara.sanchezm@gmail.com