March 16 – 18, 2010, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica
This workshop was intended to develop a monitoring program that will identify whether:
The MPA system is functional and conserving system-wide biodiversity
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related to a national strategy of increasing representativeness
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will require comparison across protected sites as well as with unprotected areas
The protected areas are effective in conserving the local biodiversity
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local effectiveness measures should capture individual protected area objectives
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needs to accommodate the different biodiversity and threats of the areas