Protected Areas

Protected Areas // Country

Dominican Republic

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Status on Key Actions


PoWPA Key Action Implementation Progress Global Average
1.1: To establish and strengthen national and regional systems of protected areas integrated into a global network as a contribution to globally agreed goals 2 - Activity fully underway 2
1.2: To integrate protected areas into broader land- and seascapes and sectors so as to maintain ecological structure and function 2 - Activity fully underway 1
1.3: To establish and strengthen regional networks, transboundary protected areas (TBPAs) and collaboration between neighbouring protected areas across national boundaries 1 - Just started, limited progress 1
1.4: To substantially improve site-based protected area planning and management 3 - Significant progress, nearly complete 2
1.5: To prevent and mitigate the negative impacts of key threats to protected areas 2 - Activity fully underway 1
2.1: To promote equity and benefit-sharing 2 - Activity fully underway 1
2.2: To enhance and secure involvement of indigenous and local communities and relevant stakeholders 3 - Significant progress, nearly complete 2
2.1: Progress in assessing protected area governance 3 - Significant progress, nearly complete 1
3.1: To provide an enabling policy, institutional and socio-economic environment for protected areas 2 - Activity fully underway 2
3.1: Progress in assessing the contribution of protected areas to local and national economies 2 - Activity fully underway 1
3.2: To build capacity for the planning, establishment and management of protected areas 3 - Significant progress, nearly complete 2
3.3: To develop, apply and transfer appropriate technologies for protected areas 1 - Just started, limited progress 1
3.4: To ensure financial sustainability of protected areas and national and regional systems of protected areas 3 - Significant progress, nearly complete 1
3.5: To strengthen communication, education and public awareness 2 - Activity fully underway 2
4.1: To develop and adopt minimum standards and best practices for national and regional protected area systems 3 - Significant progress, nearly complete 1
4.2: To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of protected areas management 2 - Activity fully underway 1
4.3: To assess and monitor protected area status and trends 1 - Just started, limited progress 1
4.4: To ensure that scientific knowledge contributes to the establishment and effectiveness of protected areas and protected area systems 2 - Activity fully underway 1
Progress in incorporating climate change aspects into protected areas 1 - Just started, limited progress 1
Progress in marine protected areas 1 - Just started, limited progress 1

Priority Actions

countries
1
actions
9
steps
40
timeframe
2012 - 2020
cost
$9,286,000

Incorporation of private protected areas
 2012 - 2020 $2,000
2020 $2,000 Implementation of regulation process of private protected areas adopted in late 2011.
2020 Receive and assess applications for establishment of private protected areas
Consolidate the implementation of shared management regulations
 2012 - 2020 $4,000
2012 - 2020 $1,000 Evaluate and monitor existing shared management agreements
2020 $1,000 Receive and assess new applications
2013 $2,000 Assess and respond to pending applications
Empower and train park rangers and managers
2012 - 2017 $700,000
2020 $400,000 Terrestrial and marine means of transportation
2020 Uniforms
2020 Appropriate technology
2020 Office equipment
2020 Sleeping gear / equipment
2020 Tools
2020 $300,000 Communication
Strengthen preventive program for protection and surveillance
2012 - 2015 $4,600,000
2015 $1,500,000 Appoint more parks rangers
2015 $1,800,000 Appoint administrators
2015 $300,000 Provide protection and surveillance logistics
2015 $1,000,000 Building security and surveillance centers
Promote and encourage public use
2012 - 2018 $1,510,000
2018 $800,000 Develop paths and look-out points
2018 $250,000 Train interpreters
2018 $150,000 Distribute informative material
2018 $250,000 Acquisition of equipment
2018 $60,000 Economic impact assessment for public use in communities
2018 Consolidate financial sustainability
Monitor ecosystems and key species
 2012 - 2020 $100,000
2012 - 2020 Adopt monitoring system
2012 - 2020 Ecosystems and species selection per protected wildlife area
2020 $100,000 Implement monitoring system
Training and technical capacity-building
2012 - 2017 $800,000
2014 $100,000 Management training in marine protected areas
2015 $100,000 Training courses for park rangers
2020 $150,000 Training abroad
2020 $200,000 Courses for PA administrators
2020 $250,000 Training for managers
Adaptation measures to climate change
 2012 - 2020 $880,000
2015 $330,000 Strengthen management in buffer zone
2020 $200,000 Ecosystem restoration linking protected areas
2020 Monitor mangrove ecosystems associated with fishing areas
2020 $200,000 Revegetation of PAs degraded by anthropogenic actions
2020 $150,000 Broadcast climate change issues
Planification
 2012 - 2020 $690,000
2020 $330,000 Preparation of management plans
2014 $125,000 Management effectiveness evaluation
2014 $10,000 Structure design of MPA management
2015 $100,000 Economic valuation of PAs
2020 $125,000 Establish regional protected area networks

LifeWeb Projects

Name Submitted Status Funding Needed Funding Secured
Strengthening Marine Resource Management Across the Samaná bay Protected Area Complex in the Face of Climate Change 30 12 2009 Not Funded $612,000 USD $0.00