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Collaborative Protected
Area Management in the Philippines
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1:20,000 scale Participatory 3D Model
(P3DM) of El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected
Area, Palawan, Philippines (Yr 1999).
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3D model measuring 4.1 m x 5.6 m covers a total
area of 1,968 km2 and includes one Ancestral
Land Claim.
The model is located at the Protected
Area Office in
El Nido proper. It has been used for planning
purposes during Protected Area Management Board's
meetings, for awareness raising, introducing visitors
to the area, and for discussing resource use and
access during planning workshops.
Informants (70) included residents of
the concerned administrative units (farmers and fisherfolk), Local Government Officials, DENR, private
sector (including tourist operators) and NGOs.
Used 3-D model for (a) collaborative
planning purposes, (b) awareness raising and (c)
introducing visitors to the area and (e) education.
Method/tools:
P3DM,
GIS, GPS and surveying
Recommended
reading:
Profile of the Protected Area
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Image courtesy Giacomo
Rambaldi © / NIPAP
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Image courtesy Giacomo
Rambaldi © / NIPAP
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Image courtesy Giacomo
Rambaldi © / NIPAP
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Image courtesy Giacomo
Rambaldi © / NIPAP
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In line with the 1992 Earth Summit,
the European Union and the Government of the Philippines, initiated and co-financed the National Integrated
Protected Areas Programme (NIPAP). This is a five-year
(1995-2000) intervention aimed at establishing eight
protected areas within the framework of the Philippine
protected area system. The system strongly supports
the participation of local communities in planning
and implementing policies and actions to conserve
biodiversity. The challenge faced by the Programme
has been how to give due weight to the interests
of local communities in delineating protected area
boundaries, identifying resource-use zones and formulating
policies on protected area management.
DEM source: NAMRIA map at 1:50,000-scale.
Digitised contour lines at 40-m intervals, enlarged
to 1:20,000. Facilitated Participatory 3-D modelling
with 70 participants. Transposed protected area
boundary corners resulting from on-field boundary
delineation. Extracted data by the use of georeferenced
grid and plastic sheets. Done GIS elaboration and
produced thematic maps.
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The El Nido-Taytay Managed
Resource Protected Area is located on the
north-western tip of the mainland of Palawan. In
1991, the Government of the Philippines
proclaimed Bacuit Bay as a marine reserve. In
1998, the protected area was expanded to include
terrestrial ecosystems and portions of the
municipality of Taytay. It is now known as El
Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area,
which covers over 36,000 hectares of land and
54,000 hectares of marine waters. It contains
towering limestone cliffs, beaches, mangroves,
clear waters, unique forests over limestone and
neat farmlands. It is home to five (5) species
of mammals, including the Malayan Pangolin and
16 bird species endemic to Palawan including the
threatened Palawan Peacock Pheasant, the Palawan
Hornbill and Palawan Scops Owl. Bacuit bay is
also home to the dugong, dolphins and marine
turtles, many of which are threatened species.
Colorful coral reef fishes are found here. Some
of these are the: butterflyfishes, parrotfishes,
wrasses, triggerfishes, angelfishes,
surgeonfishes, damsel fishes, emperors,snappers,
groupers and rabbit fishes.
In 1984, the then Ministry of
Natural Resources issued a MNR Administrative
Order No 518 establishing a 36, 000 hectare area
in North-western Palawan as a Marine Turtle
Sanctuary The El Nido Marine Reserve was
expanded by virtue of DENR Administrative Order
No. 14 Series of 1992, upon recommendations of
the El Nido and Taytay Municipal Mayors to
address livelihood opportunities for fishers.
Proclamation No. 32 dated October 8, 1998 was
passed to Congress for deliberation. Since 1989,
several different government and non-government
programs and projects have been introduced in
the area. |
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