The document discusses the International Tropical Peatlands Center's efforts in Peru to promote conservation and sustainable management of peatlands, highlighting various ecosystems and their potential for peat. It details the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, where sustainable management practices have successfully involved local communities in aguaje fruit production, enhancing both conservation efforts and economic benefits. The document emphasizes the collaboration and technical assistance provided, suggesting a potential model for replicable best practices in peatland management.

1. INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL PEATLANDS CENTER
Towards a new paradigm for conservation
and sustainable management
of peatlands in Peru
Gabriel Quijandría
Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources
Ministry of the Environment

2. InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
1: MINAM, 2019. National Ecosytems Map // 2: High altitude wetlands
3: Moorland // 4: Wet Puna mountain grassland
Peatlands in Peru
ECOSYSTEMS1REGION
% OF PERU’S
TERRITORY
EXTENSION (ha)
Amazon
Andean
Coastal
Palm swamp
Shrub-herbaceous swamp
Floodplain forest
Bofedal2
Páramo3
Jalca4
Coastal Wetland
Mangrove swamp
5´527,523
795,574
9´038,741
548,174
82,949
1´340,321
57,285
6,428
4.27
0.61
6.99
0.42
Ecosystems with potential to contain peat in the country:
0.06
1.04
0.04
0.01

3. InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
• 2’080,000 hectares / 2º in extension;
• 40K persons living inside the PA;
• 150K persons living in its Buffer Zone;
• Around 2,200 MT of fish/year
extracted // Main market: Iquitos,
420K inhabitants;
• Successful sustainable management
experiencie: paiche, arahuana,
taricaya;
• 93.66% in optimal conservation state;
• Aguajales cover 37% of PA extension.
Sustainable management of aguaje in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve

4. InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
Technical Assistance
Sustainability M&E
Community Management
Groups
Allignement with BD and
CC national priorities
Effective management
of the PA
Fruit collection
Beverage productionA new business model
• More than 25K hectares of
aguajales with sustainable
management;
• 111 families involved in fruit
production and PA conservation;
• Better prices: From US$ 0.1/Kg
to US$ 0.3/Kg;
• Steady price during whole year.

5. InternationalTropical PeatlandsCenter (ITPC)
One-hit –wonder or replicable?

6. tropicalpeatlands.org
The Center is a South-South cooperation
Coordinating partners