Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)

Project Code: 114-680-???	Start Date: Apr. 1, 1989	End Date: Apr. 1, 1992
Commitment: £78,000	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
Chiapas State, in south-western Mexico, contains a few small patches of very diverse moist forest. The Natural History Institute at Tuxtla Gutirrez (the state's capital) was responsible for the original gazetting of three of these areas as reserves and has had small-scale conservation management programmes for several years. The two most important areas in terms of biological diversity and degree of threat are the El Ocote and El Triunfo reserves. Both areas contain several rare and endangered plants, mammals and birds. The flora of both areas is extremely rich and very little of this vegetarian type remains in Mexico.

Project Objectives:
The objective of the project is to develop a management plan to assist in the development of a comprehensive conservation programme by conservation research, mapping and creating buffer zones.

Intended Outputs:
Management plans for El Triunfo and El Ocote Reserves. Increased level of training of local conservationists.