Monitoreo Participativo

Participatory Monitoring Program

This program aims to provide managers of protected areas and biological corridors with a basic toolbox to increase the conservation value of managed landscapes. Specifically, participants receive advanced training on the monitoring and evaluation of bird biodiversity; the use, monitoring, and modeling of indicator species in fragmented landscapes; and the use of participatory biodiversity monitoring tools to involve local communities in avian biodiversity monitoring and evaluation in corridors, buffer areas and in protected areas. 

Monitoring is an integral part of efforts to halt the loss of biodiversity. The aim of this monitoring project is two-fold. First biodiversity monitoring will be used as a means to educate and involve citizens of the biological corridor on the importance of managing landscapes for connectivity. We expect that by bringing together various interest groups a common ground can be found to support both conservation and sustainable agricultural production activities in the corridor. Second, the data collected by biodiversity monitoring will provide essential data for decision makers on best practices that support conservation and production goals. The results generated from the monitoring program will be used to identify key issues related to policy and management goals, assess priorities for bird conservation, and inform policy-makers and the general public on the state of biodiversity.

Participatory monitoring volunteers can access the project website to both enter data remotely as well as have access to data results. Volunteers who are not comfortable with, or that do not have access to the Internet will be able to submit paper copies of the data, which will be entered by project staff. All volunteers will be trained on the web-based database during the avian ecology-training workshop.

To ensure sustainability of the program, participants in the monitoring program will be provided all the necessary resources to participate in the program. Notably, participants will be provided with a field manual, copies of datasheets, access to project staff and databases, training, and binoculars. Binoculars will be made available to program participant who do not have their own pair and are generously provided through the Optics for the Tropics program.

Participatory Monitoring Data Acquisition and Submission:

Current Participatory Monitoring Volunteers data should include species name, site location, land use at the site, date and time of sighting for the following fifteen indicator species:

Click here for remote data entry.