Bio-diversity

The area of the jungle of Pejibaye at Jim n cant nez, in the province of Cartago maintains one of Medes h m s diverse and picturesque tropical forests, their vocaci n forest lands are used in subsistence agriculture, and thanks to some visionaries peasants, today there are lush forests. As it is the case of the Association for the conservation and sustainable development of the Copal, which has maintained a 200 property you have. in order to keep the mountain for future generations. However the concept of conservation of forests and mountains has changed, leading to a sustained resource usage. In addition to this the conditions based Muscovites s PA and especially for the sector agr tail, it has generated in organizations and civil society in general to seek and generate new alternatives of subsistence which allow the use of the resource forest in a sustainable manner and that allow an improvement of the quality of life. Thus is born the idea of the Association for the conservation and sustainable development of the Copal implements a project ecotur elastic into the forest of 200 has. This organization was born product of inter s of 17 friends and neighbors, to maintain and conserve the area of forest that is located in the buffer zone of the Park international friendship, with the aim that the expansion of agriculture and the urbanizaci n of the n region not transcend to the mountainous area. They have 200 hectares of land, which owns 88% of native forest soon intervened, where born 7 streams and feature a great diversity of flora and fauna, seg n a preliminary study to realiz INBIO. The property was acquired through a pr loan made to a State Bank, in principle were 17 associated however, problems econ micos seven partners could not meet the shared debt, and withdrew from the organization. Currently there are 10 partners and members and members are in the process of acceptance of m s, now have five members m s, of the community. Members and members of the Association, are part of other grassroots organizations such as for example the Development Association, Association for the aqueduct, Member of Board of Directors of the school, etc., by means of which it has led to an amelioration of the conditions of life of all members of the community. Copal is located 50 kms from the center of Carthage, on the national road, which is in a very bad state. The roads in the community and neighbouring communities are lastreadas and in poor condition, they have b-take electricity and water services, but est s conditions is not available in the area where this located hostel. Nor has n available to the phone service nico, and much less service p public buses. The main productive activities are basically, the cultivation of sugarcane az car, caf, pastures (dual site prop livestock), tub rculos, vegetables. Adem s of the functioning of some Mills (which are in bad condition) and trade in general (pulper, panader,). The more the members of the Association to develop activities in the sector agr tail, as employees. The strengthening of the PDP team, has been working on the concept of quality of companies tour statistics through training workshops and exchange of experiences, in which the Asoc. the Copal has participated enthusiastically and has tried to put into practice pr concepts. Recently, the DPP took out a training and workshop sensibilizaci n about est standards of quality due to the hostel, in order to provide better service. The PPD defined a number of basic criteria, applied to the small and medium industry tur feature. The objective of this workshop at the level of the Organization was: show with members the aspects of quality and infrastructure m nima that must have a tur feature company and that are demanded by the tourists - at the level of the PPD equate supply projects tur plastics of the DPP to an est standard minimum of quality. This remained a meeting n with the members of the Board of direct and adem s defined roles and functions, which are required when a group of tourists arrives. Ultimate goal: achieve the sustainable use of the resource forest through the implementation of a project ecotur stico, in the community of the Copal, in order to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and to the improvement of the quality of life of families. Objectives spec graphics: make improvements to existing infrastructure in order to increase the quality of the service provided. Improve the visitaci n to the hostel through the implementation of a plan of promotion responsible for n

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