Biodiversity in Priority Areas Project (GEF)

The overall objective is to put in place measures to assure the conservation of the Honduran section of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in core areas in t he long term. This overall objective is to be achieved by focussing on the following specific goals:- Sufficient institutional capacity achieved to change prote cted areas from 'paper parks' to actively managed entities.- Key core areas benefit from better management and protection with management plans, demarcation, and delimitation, and participatory management.- Dema nd-driven activites in buffer zones (general and targeted) result in increased participation of local communities in management activities and more benign land use.- Biodiversity monitoring system in place to determine major changes in the status of biodiversity in the Corridor with local participation in monitoring activities and a flow of information on the biological status of resources.This project falls within the Biodiversity window of the GE F and the following Operational Programs: OP #2 (Coastal, Marine, and Freshwater Ecosystems), OP #3 (Forest E cosystems), and OP #4 (Mountain Ecosystems).