📋 Tender Overview
Four Sernanp professionals are trained in the USPeru continues to mark the pattern in biodiversity and sustainable management of its natural resources. The National Service of Natural Areas Protected by the State (Sernanp), an agency assigned to the Ministry of Environment, reported the outstanding participation of four of its professionals in the XXXI International course on the management of protected areas, carried out from July 13 to August 6 at the State University of Colorado (USA), thanks to the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
This organized training program together with the Center for the Management of Protected Areas (CPAM) and the United States Forest Service, reinforces the Institutional policy of Sernanp to invest in the formation of environmental leaders, key to face the challenges of climate change and consolidate the strategic role of the protected natural areas (ANP).
Conservation ambassadors
The four professionals who represented Peru symbolize the conservation team:
* Mario Augusto Soto Barboza, specialist of the Historic Sanctuary of Machupicchu.
* Sirley Medalit Bernabe Orellano, Head of the Historic Sanctuary Bosques de Pomac.
* Juan Alberto Casanova Daza, specialist of the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve.
* Keyko Maribel Shimamoto Armas, specialist at the Subdirectorate of Supervision, Surveillance and Control.
They become ambassadors in Peru in the participatory management of protected natural areas, bringing the national experience to the international debate and returning with learning that will strengthen sustainable tourism, scientific research and direct work with local communities.
Cooperation generated by future
The support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation shows the importance of international cooperation as an engine of transformation in environmental management. The investment in training strengthens Peru as a regional leader in the protection of the Amazon and fragile ecosystems, contributing to the fulfillment of the sustainable development objectives, the national strategy of biological diversity and the climatic commitments (NDC).
In this way, the State reaffirms that the conservation of protected natural areas is a first -order policy that ensures water, clean air, resilience against disasters and economic development opportunities for millions of Peruvians.
