Since 2012, FANP has promoted the Protected Areas Learning Community (CAAP).
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In 2022, the FANP celebrated 25 years of operation as a successful financial mechanism contributing to priority ecosystems' conservation and permanence. Thanks to the collaboration of CONANP, communities, local organizations, and the trust of more than 23 donors who have joined this initiative since 1997. FANP is an exemplary mechanism at the national and international levels. In 2022, in addition to celebrating the success of this mechanism, we celebrated the collaboration between the government and the organizations and the work of the park rangers who, together with the communities that inhabit the PAs, guard and conserve the natural resources that allow us Mexicans to enjoy environmental services.
Twenty-five years after its inception, the FANP channels strategic financial resources to 55 federal PAs covering 36.18 million hectares, which represents 54% of the protected land territory and 35% of the protected marine territory.
In 2022, we launched the CAAP call for proposals, receiving 30 proposals from 25 different organizations to strengthen PA staff and local communities in ecosystem management and monitoring and sustainable tourism through exchanges of experiences. The FANP Technical Committee approved eight proposals to be implemented during 2023.
In 2022, two more PAs were added to this financial mechanism as part of the Sustainable Financing Protected Areas Project, Phase II (FINANP II). In addition, in the second half of the year, we updated the strategic plans for the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, La Sepultura, Ría Lagartos, and Islas Marías Biosphere Reserves (BR). Finally, in November, we celebrated 25 years of FANP operation in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán BR. We shared this celebration with more than 150 people from 38 of the 55 PAs supported by this financial mechanism, Conanp staff, four organizations, and more than ten local producer groups, who gathered at the Helia Bravo Hollis Botanical Garden in Zapotitlán Salinas, Puebla. Finally, in 2022, support was provided to combat and control 18 fires in seven PAs through the Emergency Fund, an extraordinary resource for contingencies in PAs supported by the FANP.
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