Biodiversity Conservation in Cuba: objectives

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN CUBA
Objectives

Specific objectives of this project were to:

train reserve staff of at least 15 Cuban nature reserves in the writing of management plans;

help those staff to prepare new management plans for at least those 15 reserves;

establish, if possible, a regional identification service for fungi based in Cuba;

computerize existing and newly generated information about neglected groups of organisms;

use that and other information to produce conventional and electronic identification guides, including a guide to insects on sugar cane, and an identification guide to common wild plants of the Viñales valley in western Cuba;

deliver as much donated equipment (including a minimum of 45 desktop computers) as possible to its nature reserves and biodiversity institutions;

collaborate in study of Cuba's fungi, including surveying at three key sites (Reserva Ecológica Alturas de Banao, Cienaga de Zapata and Viñales National Park).

	train reserve staff of at least 15 Cuban nature reserves in the writing of management plans;
	help those staff to prepare new management plans for at least those 15 reserves;
	establish, if possible, a regional identification service for fungi based in Cuba;
	computerize existing and newly generated information about neglected groups of organisms;
	use that and other information to produce conventional and electronic identification guides, including a guide to insects on sugar cane, and an identification guide to common wild plants of the Viñales valley in western Cuba;
	deliver as much donated equipment (including a minimum of 45 desktop computers) as possible to its nature reserves and biodiversity institutions;
	collaborate in study of Cuba's fungi, including surveying at three key sites (Reserva Ecológica Alturas de Banao, Cienaga de Zapata and Viñales National Park).