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1. Summary: |
The invasive species are
considered to be the second cause of biodiversity loss and threat to the
agriculture and public health. Unfortunately, they have not been considered
as a serious problem in Bolivia, even though their management and control as
well as the struggle against them has generated coordinated efforts in
several countries and institutions at the international level. Nevertheless
this vision is changing, and the importance of generating plans and
strategies at national level to face the serious problem that the invasive
species represent has been recognized. Thus, the National Government,
through the Vice ministry of Biodiversity, Forest Resources, and Environment
(VBRFMA, by its Spanish acronym) and IABIN's focal point in Bolivia,
is generating the national strategy concerning the detection, prevention,
management, and control of invasive species.
Therefore, it is
extremely important
to develop a database that compiles and generates more information related
to this subject, as well as, and in a parallel way, to generate the node of
national information that participate in an active way in the IABIN Invasive
Species Information Network (I3N), to address the problems concerning
invasive species jointly and applying common strategies in the Western
Hemisphere and thus, to prevent future invasions and damages caused to the
ecosystems and national economies.
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