Coral Reef Conservation. Panama

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1 Coral Reef Conservation Panama

2 Low nutrient levels Bocas del Toro Caribbean Sea Tides up to 0.5 m Temperatures o C Guna Yala Narrow continental shelf Gulf of Chiriqui Without upwelling Temperatures Of o C Wide contiental shelf Pacific Ocean Tides up to 6.0 m Gulf of Panama With upwellings Temperatures of o C High nutrient levels

3 Coral reefs of Panama Caribean Sea ~ 754 km 2 Guna Yala Bocas del Toro Coverage untill 75% 5-15% in coastal zones Gulf of Chiriqui Pacific Ocean Gulf of Panama ~ 16 km 2

Contadora I. Bolaños I. Pájaros I. Chapera Bahía Piña <15.7 km 2 Coverage: 25-50% 26 spp 8 45 I. Otoque 5 Km 79 40 Bahía de I. Taboguilla Panamá I. Taboga I. Urabá < 0.

4 Taboga Otoque Bahía de Panamá Las Perlas I. Pá ridas I. Silva de Afuer a I. Se ca s 12.5 Km 2 I. Ladrone s I. I. Canale s Cont reras de Tie rra I. Coibita I. Canal I. de Afue ra Coiba I. Montuosa I. Cébaco Arrecife de coral I. Jicarón I. Jicarita I. Restinge Iguana Arrecife de coral 8 40' < 1.6 Km 2 I. Pacheca I. Saboga I. Contadora I. Bolaños I. Pájaros I. Chapera Bahía Piña <15.7 km 2 Coverage: 25-50% 26 spp 8 45 I. Otoque 5 Km Bahía de I. Taboguilla Panamá I. Taboga I. Urabá < 0.1 Km 2 I. Boná 8 20' I. Señorita I. Pedro González I. San José < 1.5 Km 2 Arrecife de coral 79 Arrecife de coral I. Del Rey Rey I. I. Espíritu Santo I. San Telmo 5 Km I. Galera

5 Río Changuinola Solarte Bastimentos Cristóbal Cayos Zapatillas Popa Cayo Valiente Agua Almirante Colón 87.4 Km 2 Laguna de Chiriquí Peninsula Escudo de Veraguas 8.2 Km 2 70 spp Bahía Limón Cristóbal km 2 Coverage: 25-30% (5-15% on coasts) 48 Km 2 Bahía Las Minas 9 25' Km 82 20' Arrecife de coral Río Calovébora Río Chagres Canal de P anam á 79 50' 0 5 Km PUNTA SAN BLAS Punta San Blas Km Mar Caribe Cayos Holandeses Cayos Limones 610 Km 2 Salar Arrecife de coral Azucar Ṙ N

6 Protected Area Special Management Zone Main Coral Reefs Regions MPA s with coral reefs

7 Tourism Curio trade Dredging Extraction for landfill and construction 12,923 m 3 during the colonial period Coral and Fish extraction Anchoring, stranding Sea warming and diseases (El Niño) Exotic species Coastal Refineries Sedimentation Overfishing Eutrophication Coastal development Marine Debries Deforestation Chemical and organic contamination

CORAL REEF CONSERVATION Law Nº 2 (January 2006) that regulates the touristic concessions on islands prohibits the construction on coral

Project: Extraction and recollection of marine debris (ghost nets) through the communitarian participation in Chiriquí and Darien.

Croquer STRI(since 1985)- 33 reefs, 17 in the Pacific Ocean and 16 in the Caribbean Sea.

8 CORAL REEF CONSERVATION Law Nº 2 (January 2006) that regulates the touristic concessions on islands prohibits the construction on coral formations, and any activity that can cause their death, bleaching or the destruction. Project: Extraction and recollection of marine debris (ghost nets) through the communitarian participation in Chiriquí and Darien. Panama Coral Reef Monitoring Network-H. Guzman & A. Croquer STRI(since 1985)- 33 reefs, 17 in the Pacific Ocean and 16 in the Caribbean Sea. Bahía Las Minas Oil Spill Monitoring-STRI MPA s Management plans (Coiba, Bocas del Toro and Las Perlas Achipielagos) Communitarian activities to promote the extraction and consumption of the Lion Fish in the Caribbean Coast of Panama. Lion Fish Studie on parasitism, predation, relationship wityh other species in Panama (A. Sellers).

Why to join the ICRI? Panama has coral reefs on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts with different characteristics and very high diversity components.

9 Why to join the ICRI? Panama has coral reefs on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts with different characteristics and very high diversity components. The major coral reef of the East Pacific is in Coiba National Park- UNESCO s World Heritage Site since 2005 and the Third Marine Protected Area in The Mesoamerican Marine Corridor. Panama as a member of the UN has the obligation of make all possible efforts to accomplish a better management and protection of its ecosystems, including coral reefs. Coral reefs provide important economical and ecological goods and services to island and costal communities of our country It is of the interest of the Panamanian government to improve the conservation and management of the coral reefs in and out MPA s.

10 Panama, trough the Aquatic Resources Authority, as a new member wants to ensure its support for the Renewed Call to Action and the Framework for Action of the International Coral Reef Initiative.

11 Thank You!!

LATIN AMERICA / CARIBBEAN COIBA NATIONAL PARK PANAMA

LATIN AMERICA / CARIBBEAN COIBA NATIONAL PARK PANAMA WORLD HERITAGE NOMINATION IUCN TECHNICAL EVALUATION COIBA NATIONAL PARK (PANAMA) ID Nº 1138 Bis Background note: Coiba National Park was nominated for