WP 9: 1 st Planning meeting summary Clarification between WP members of common objectives: Workshop planning and logistics with time- line Planning for deliverables and publications Next steps Fundación Malpelo

Refining objectives 1. Fundamental definitions, concepts and development of adaptive management mechanisms for marine eco-tourism (criteria). Determine marine tourism activities that favour conservation criteria and generate socio-economic alternatives. To determine the most appropriate criteria for evaluating the effects of marine ecotourism practices in reserves (carrying capacity and/or LAC) Development and testing of these models with appropriately designed and defined indicator categories Elaborate and implement efficient, cost-effective monitoring and evaluation protocols (integrating biophysical, socio-economic, user perceptions and governance metadata) 2. Explore cost – benefit and reciprocation mechanisms wrt conservation values - with more emphasis upon social and economic interdependencies. Develop and evaluate mechanisms to mitigate negative impacts, encourage positive impacts and examine interdependencies Assess human impacts on biological communities at specific case study sites and the implications of environmental variability (ENSO, PDO, global warming etc) upon sustainable business practices in the Equatorial Pacific. 3. Application, outreach and constructing sustainable management frameworks

Workshop schedule (and agreement in presented work plan) Workshop 1 “CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION: CREATING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM” (Site TBD : Colombia January 2006): Suggestions: Planning and discussion forum: (a) to share WP member and MPA stakeholder experiences (b) develop WP strategy, definitions and fundamental concepts (i.e. Management model definitions (LAC vs. Carrying Capacity)) (c) evaluate existing indicators and monitoring methods (d) design candidate indicators (transversal and specific for WP MPA case studies) (e) design monitoring approach/ protocols. Workshop 2 “EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION VALUES” (Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006): Suggestions: Evaluation forum : (a) share WP member progress and lessons learned, revisit conceptual questions to evaluate and modify indicators and monitoring methods if necessary, (b) integration of WP criteria and data between other INCOFISH WP’s (1,5,8 etc). Discussion forum : (b) cost benefit analysis of reciprocation of ecotourism and conservation initiatives to ensure sustainable ecosystems, coastal marine interactions (c) develop strategies to integrate WP recommendations into decision making processes within MPAs (eg. Participatory forums, conservation initiatives within the tourism sector) Discussion forum : (d) how might we implement long term improvements in sector group perceptions w.r.t sustainable activities? Workshop 3 “MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS” (Machalilla, Ecuador Sept 2007): Suggestions” Plenary: (a) integrating technical recommendations into management processes (b) summary of WP advances (c) strategies to develop WP objectives beyond the life of the project Work groups (c) continuation of publications and diffusion of project results

Planning for deliverables and publications Concept MS with global perspective and summaries/ comparisons between case reserves. Participatory processes for developing indicators with stakeholders. User perceptions and socio-economic considerations Outreach materials for Reserve managers and local communities etc. Suggested Topics:

WP 9: Work Plan Project task Months Start-up, Creation of a shared literature base: historical data and literature review between WP members, Presentation of WP goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders Workshop 1 (Site TBD, Colombia) January 2006): “CONCEPT AND ORIENTATION – CREATING ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS FOR ECOTOURISM” 9 Further integration of work package goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders (strengthened links) – local workshop sessions. Construct and maintain a web based Ecotourism discussion and feedback group through portal? Biophysical, socio-economic, user perception and governance data collection with MPA counterparts Data reduction and creation of local and WP data to WP1 Analysis: first evaluation of marine ecotourism indicators for MPAs and monitoring methods Workshop 2 (Galapagos, Ecuador, November 2006). “EVALUATION, COST/BENEFIT AND RECIPROCATION MECHANISMS TOWARDS CONSERVATION VALUES” 18 Continued indicator data collection and assimilation. Identify, explore and where feasible apply, incentives and mechanisms to improve the contributions of tourism operations towards reciprocal sustainable ecotourism and conservation. On basis of indicator outputs design decision making tools for application by Marine Reserve Managers (interpretation) Workshop 3 (Machalilla, Ecuador) Sept 2007) “MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND FUTURE STEPS” 29 Final dissemination of results to stakeholders, park administrators and academic community

WP 9: Deliverables D9.1 Month 10 DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA : to determine the most appropriate management models and “scope” of ecotourism (Carrying capacity vs. LAC/VIM) for ecotourism in the 4 MPAs under study with global review of ecotourism activities outside of Equ. Pacific D9.2 Month 25 INDICATORS, STANDARDS AND THRESHOLD VALUES : used to monitor impact of ecotourism on selected MPA’s D9.3 Month 30 A RANGE OF ADEQUATE MANAGEMENT RESPONSES : application and evaluation of ecotourism concepts, standards and indicators between WP’s and MPA stakeholders and managers (focus) D9.4 Transv. with deadline schedule SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND DISSEMINATION TO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS Dissemination of results to stakeholders, park administrators and academic community. At least 5 publications submitted between WP members

Milestones MonthMilestone 8Model/s identified and concepts defined 9Prototype indicators established 9Presentation and exploration of work package goals with local MPA administrators and stakeholders 10Monitoring protocols first applied in case study systems 18Data formatted for integration into INCOFISH web-portal 21Monitoring system/ Indicator evaluation and feedback process Publication and diffusion to stakeholders, administrators and academic community (transversal activity)

WP 9:Time table Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

WP 9: Partners and case study ecosystems Galapagos National Park Service (Ecuador) Direccion Nacional de Areas Protegidas y Vida Silvestre (Ecuador) Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia Invited experts (e.g. tourism reps, NGO experts, WP 8 member, process facilitators, local government etc.) Galapagos Marine Reserve (Ecuador) Machalilla National Park (Ecuador) Malpelo Sanctuary of Flora and Fauna (Colombia) Gorgona National Park (Colombia)

Next steps and synergies. First meeting to explore the relative methods (LAC criteria etc) is tonight. First approach to stakeholders and managers upon return to host countries Still need to meet with WP 8 – involvement in the second workshop & more emphasis on socio-economic issues? Possible synergy with WP 6 – development of decision making tools