Monitoring Biodiversity in Alto Chagres

For the Fund’s Biodiversity Monitoring component, the eight (8) conservation objects defined in two (2) pre- vious planning processes — the Alto Chagres Conservation Plan1 and the Chagres National Park Management Plan2 — were reviewed, and it was also based on the technical experience generated during the Parque en Peligro Project’s conservation actions.

Five (5) conservation objects were selected, and ecological attributes were defined under size, condition and landscape categories. The objects of conservation include the jaguar, the harpy eagle, the semi-deciduous forest, the lotic ecosystem, and the cloud forest; and to assess the status of each object of conservation a total of eleven (11) biological indicators were identified.