Recomendações para a Conservação de Estuários e Restauração de Manguezais na América Central e do Sul

This white paper argues for the critical importance of estuaries and mangroves in Central and South America for biodiversity, climate regulation, and coastal protection. It identifies threats such as climate change, pollution, and urbanization, and proposes a comprehensive framework for sustainable management. The report emphasizes the role of 'blue carbon' in climate mitigation and advocates for science diplomacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and community engagement. It provides specific case studies from the Coiba Archipelago in Panama and the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to illustrate successful management and the need for continued restoration.

• Estuaries and mangroves are vital for climate mitigation as they are the primary systems responsible for capturing biological carbon from the oceans, known as 'blue carbon'.
• These ecosystems are sensitive indicators of coastal oceanographic changes caused by climate change, which have been intensified by the increased frequency and magnitude of El Niño-La Niña events.
• The Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica is a highly productive tropical estuary and a primary fishing center, though some mangrove systems there are significantly degraded by salt mines, shrimp farms, and deforestation.
• The Coiba Archipelago in Panama contains some of the best-preserved mangroves in Central America, including the rare piñuelo mangrove, and is considered a 'living laboratory of evolution'.
• The report recommends implementing biodiversity monitoring programs to track threats such as invasive species, habitat fragmentation, and resource overexploitation.
• Effective conservation requires science diplomacy and multinational cooperation to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and public policy decision-making.
• The document advocates for the integration of local communities and indigenous peoples in management, emphasizing the preservation of ancestral knowledge and the development of sustainable economic activities like ecotourism.

APA

Díaz-Ferguson, E., Echeverria-King, L. F., Pantović, B., Segovia, J., Aranguren, Y., Brugnoli, E., Muniz, P., Weiler, A., de Gracia, E. F., Ramírez, Á. M., Lasso, E., Sánchez-Gallego, J., Urriola-Garcia, K., Ana, R. S., Zapata, S., da Cruz, A. C., Fábrega, A. V., Alarcón-López, C., & Ohira, M. (2024). Recomendações para a Conservação de Estuários e Restauração de Manguezais na América Central e do Sul. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/Estuarios_IAI_PO_2024.pdf

Chicago

Díaz-Ferguson, Edgardo, Luisa F. Echeverria-King, Branislav Pantović, Johanna Segovia, Yani Aranguren, Ernesto Brugnoli, Pablo Muniz, et al. Recomendações para a Conservação de Estuários e Restauração de Manguezais na América Central e do Sul. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, 2024. https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/Estuarios_IAI_PO_2024.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{dazferguson2024recomendaes, author = {Díaz-Ferguson, Edgardo and Echeverria-King, Luisa F. and Pantović, Branislav and Segovia, Johanna and Aranguren, Yani and Brugnoli, Ernesto and Muniz, Pablo and Weiler, Andrea and de Gracia, Eric Flores and Ramírez, Álvaro Morales and Lasso, Eloisa and Sánchez-Gallego, Joel and Urriola-Garcia, Karly and Ana, Rodrigo Sant and Zapata, Sofía and da Cruz, Andrea Cancela and Fábrega, Anabella Vásquez and Alarcón-López, Claudia and Ohira, Marcella}, title = {{Recomendações para a Conservação de Estuários e Restauração de Manguezais na América Central e do Sul}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iai.int/administrador/assets/images/ckfinder/files/Estuarios_IAI_PO_2024.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }