| Contacts: | Estuardo Secaira, The Nature Conservancy-Guatemala and Juan Cornejo, Africam Safari-México | |
| Date & Time: | Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 08:00-17:00 hrs | |
| Location: | Hotel Galería Plaza, Salón A. Veracruz, Mexico |
Background: : The Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) is an endemic species of SE Mexico and Center-West of Guatemala, it is considered threatened with extinction due to the enormous loss and fragmentation of the cloud forest where it is found, and due to the intense hunting pressure that is suffering. For the Cracid Specialist Group of the IUCN its conservation is considered a high priority (Brooks and Strahl 2000).
The Population and Habitat Viability Analysis workshop (PHVA), held in 2002 at Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala, was useful to review the existing information, to analyze the problem and to propose actions for the conservation of the species and its habitat (Grupo de Especialistas de Reproducción para la Conservación (SSC/UICN), 2002). One of the main outcomes of the workshop was the creation of the Bi-national Committee for the Conservation of the Horned Guan and its Habitat, whose main aim is to promote the fulfillment of the propose actions.
As a consequence of the elaboration of the plan and the formation of the Committee in Guatemala, a systematic study of the distribution of the species started, public presentations of awareness were made on the importance of the conservation, the Horned Guan was included as part of the image of two protected areas in the Atitlán volcanic chain, and the personage “Cachín” was created as guide of the environmental education campaign of the Friends of the Atitlán Lake Association.
Later, in 2003 during the VII Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation, carried out in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico, the first Symposium for the Conservation of the Horned Guan and its Habitat was held. During this meeting the results of the PHVA, and the advances in the captive breeding program were presented, and it was decided to reinforce the joint work between Mexico and Guatemala. In April 2005, at Los Tarrales, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala, the II International Simposium was held, with 35 participants including investigators and promoters of the habitat conservation.
These events have served to impel and to coordinate the investigation and the actions of conservation in situ and ex situ, as well as environmental education on this species, and the exchange of experiences. We consider it very important to disclose the advances made in the knowledge and conservation the species, and to involve more people and institutions in the future efforts, the frame of the North American Ornithology Congress would be ideal for this intention.
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Agenda:
Please note: Symposium will be largely in Spanish – title is given in the language of presentation.
| 9:00-9:30 am | Avances en la Implementación del Plan de Conservación del Pavón, por Juan Cornejo (Africam Safari) | |
| 9:30-10:00 am | Avances del Comité de Conservación del Pavo de Cacho y su Hábitat, por Estuardo Secaira-Guatemala (TNC) y Juan Carlos Castro-México (CONANP) | |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Distribución Actual del Pavo de Cacho en Guatemala, por Javier Rivas y Ana José Cóbar (Escuela de Biología de la Universidad de San Carlos) | |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Dieta y conducta de forrajeo del pavón (Oreophasis derbianus) en la Reserva de la Biosfera El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico, por Fernando Gonzalez-García) (Instituto de Ecología de Xalapa) | |
| 11:00-11:30 am | Receso | |
| 11:30 am-12:00 pm | Propuesta de protocolo para el monitoreo del pavón (Oreophasis derbianus) en la Reserva de la Biosfera El Triunfo, Chiapas, México, por Alejandro Abundis y Fernando González-García (Departamento de Biodiversidad y Ecología Animal. Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico) | |
| 12:00-12:30 pm | Avances en el Programa de Conservación ex situ del Pavón, por Juan Cornejo (Africam Safari) | |
| 12:30-1:00 pm | Dieta y nutrición del Pavón en cautiverio, por Gretel Tovar, Juan Cornejo y Ellen Dierenfeld (Africam Safari y Zoológico de Saint Louis). | |
| 1:00-2:30 pm | Almuerzo | |
| 2:30-3:00 pm | Avances en la Conservación del Hábitat del Pavo de Cacho en la cadena volcánica de Atitlán, por Estuardo Girón (Vivamos Mejor) y Ronaldo Cárdenas (CONAP-Altiplano Central) | |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Panel sobre el Futuro de la Investigacion y Conservacion de la Especie, moderado por Estuardo Secaira y Juan Cornejo |
References:
Brooks, D. M. & S. D. Strahl (compilers) 2000. Curassows, Guans and Chachalacas. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Cracids 2000-2004. IUCN/SSC Cracid Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Grupo de Especialistas de Reproducción para la Conservación (SSC/UICN). 2002. Análisis de Viabilidad de la Población y el Hábitat del Pavo de Cacho o Pavón (Oreophasis derbianus): Reporte final. CBSG, Apple Valley, MN, Estados Unidos: 320 pp.
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