Fragile Ecosystems

We support national and regional authorities in the identification and participative management of fragile ecosystems in Peru to guarantee their protection and defense in favor of local populations. 

According to the legislation in our country, fragile ecosystems enjoy additional measures for their conservation and sustainable use due to the unique characteristics and resources they have, such as the provision of ecosystem services essential to life and key for the adaptation to climate change. Due to their condition of fragility, these spaces —among them, marshes, mist oasis, and wetlands— are highly vulnerable to activities that are developed within them or their surroundings, such as illegal land occupation or illegal resource extraction.

In this regard, the SPDA seeks to contribute to the effective management and protection of fragile ecosystems with the consolidation of the regulatory framework and the creation of citizen instruments for the defense of these strategic spaces.

The following are some of our key actions:

• Protection and defense of fragile ecosystems.
• Strengthening of the regulatory framework for the protection and coordinated management of fragile ecosystems.
• Legal assistance for citizens in order to guarantee the protection of fragile ecosystems threatened by invasions, unplanned buildings, illicit resource extraction, among others.
• Supporting the management and governance of fragile coastal marine ecosystems. Working for the creation and consolidation of a legal framework to implement and acknowledge OMEC initiatives along with the Ministry of Environment. 

One of the main milestones is the approval of a supreme decree to protect the almost 16 million hectares of marshes in Peru.