Story from Irina Montenegro, WWF-Chile
In November 2016, an introductory Open Standards workshop was held during the National Congress on Protected Public Areas in Chile. During the workshop, 30 park rangers and professional conservationists from the Chilean Ministry of Environment, the U.S. Forest Service, and CONAF (a government environmental agency responsible for Public Protected Areas in Chile) strengthened their ability to use planning tools to make better management decisions for protected areas. Building OS capacity will help protected area staff and partner organizations use a common language for planning and management.
CONAF has been using the Adaptive Management cycle as its main approach to improving their management practices since 2015; at least nine public protected areas are now using a version of the OS to design management plans. In this sense, the OS workshop was a valuable opportunity to learn from others experiences and insights. Check out our recap video on YouTube to get an inside look at the workshop.
This workshop was hosted by Foundations of Success, CONAF (a government environmental agency responsible for Public Protected Areas in Chile), and WWF/CCNet South America.
