Department of Sustainable Development

WHMSI is building country capacity to conserve and manage migratory wildlife. It improves hemispheric communication on conservation issues of common interest, provides training in priority areas, strengthens the exchange of information needed for informed decision-making, and provides a forum to address emerging issues such as new threats to migratory species, or the connections between wildlife disease and human diseases.

Latin American Network for The Conservation of Bats (RELCOM)

First Workshop

December 12-14 of 2009

Agenda

Sarapiqui Statement

25 experts attended the first meeting of the Latin American Network for Bat Conservation that took place in La Tirimbina Reserve in Costa Rica. The meeting designed a capacity-building program to provide each of the 11 Latin American country teams with tools and methodologies to establish Research, Conservation, and Environmental Education Plans highlighted by 15 years of successful work on bat conservation in Mexico. Each country then adapts the program according to their specific needs. Additionally, the participants drafted and approved the Declaration of Costa Rica that lays thegroundwork for a Latin American Strategy for Bat Conservation. The strategy aims for the conservation of ecologically and economically important species of bats, including those species that are conservation priorities such as endangered, migratory, and endemic bat species.

Tirimbina, Costa Rica, December 12-14 of 2009.

About The WHMSI project:

The Magazine of the Americas called "AMERICAS". Publicized in its February edition of 2010 an article where the WHMSI project is quoted.

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Working Material of the Workshop:

Speakers	Presentations	File
Rodrigo A. Medellín	Origenes e Historia de la RELCOM
Mónica Díaz	“Estado de conocimiento y de conservación de los murciélagos de Argentina”
Rodrigo A. Medellín	“El PCMM a quince años de su creación”
Luis Fernando Aguirre	“Una década del PCMB: lecciones aprendidas y retos futuros”
Jafet M. Nassar	“Estado actual de conservación de los murciélagos de Venezuela, iniciativas de investigación y perspectivas para acciones en red”
Bernal Rodríguez	“Conservación de murciélagos en Costa Rica, 8 años de logros y fracasos”
Sergio Estrada	“Primeros pasos del Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de Colombia”
Germán Botto	“Conservación de murciélagos en Uruguay, cuatro años de trabajo del GIM”
Ludmilla Aguiar	“Panoramica dos Morcegos Brasileiros”
Armando Rodríguez	“El Desarrollo de la Quiropterifilia en Puerto Rico”
José Luis Mena	“Avances en el análisis del estado de conservación actual de los murciélagos de Perú”
Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de México	“Educación, Comunicación Ambiental y Trabajo Comunitario”
Richard Huber	“Visión General de la Iniciativa de Especies Migratorias del Hemisferio Occidental (WHMSI), La Red Interamericana de Información sobre Biodiversidad (IABIN) y las actividades de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA)”