Guyana receiving protected areas support from German Society
In photo, from left, are Protected Areas Officers, Thadaigh Baggallay and Anouska Kinahan; Head of Department, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Dr. Antje Muellner; FZS CEO, Dr. Christof Schenck; Minister Raphael Trotman; Commissioner of the Protected Areas Commission, Damian Fernandes; and Permanent Secretary, Joslyn McKenzie after signing of the MoU
In photo, from left, are Protected Areas Officers, Thadaigh Baggallay and Anouska Kinahan; Head of Department, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Dr. Antje Muellner; FZS CEO, Dr. Christof Schenck; Minister Raphael Trotman; Commissioner of the Protected Areas Commission, Damian Fernandes; and Permanent Secretary, Joslyn McKenzie after signing of the MoU

GUYANA will receive financial and technical support for the development of its protected areas system from the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS).This was confirmed on Tuesday when Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Christof Schenck signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the boardroom of the Minister’s Brickdam Office.

As part of the agreement, FZS is providing the Protected Areas Commission (PAC) with the services of two experts; Dr. Anoushka Kinahan and Thadaigh Baggallay, who have been in Guyana for the past year.

These two experts are tasked with advising the PAC on setting up the Guyana conservation area system, lending support to establish administrative and monitoring systems for the Kanuku Mountains, the crafting of monitoring plans and biodiversity surveys, and liaising with representatives of other interest groups such as indigenous communities, Conservation International and regional planning authorities.

Additional support in the form of financing will be made available once development of the country’s management plans and strategies are completed.

Minister Trotman said the Government welcomes this support which is critical for the advancement of the country’s protected areas system. He said that, “we are now awakened to the fact that our biodiversity is precious and we need to preserve it. Thankfully, we have not lost much of what have and your intervention and presence bodes well for us.”

FZS is an independent, international conservation organisation based in Germany. It is committed to preserving wild lands and biological diversity in the last remaining wilderness areas on the planet.

This organisation is active in biodiversity-rich areas in central and Eastern Europe, east Africa, central South America and south-east Asia.(GINA)

 

 

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