The Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to biodiversity conservation in Bolivia. As part of its climate change and conservation planning projects, FAN has used Dinamica EGO to model land use in Bolivia and Cameroon. In Bolivia, Dinamica EGO supported the development of baseline scenarios for a pilot REDD program in Northern Beni and Southern Pando, projecting deforestation. In 2010 in Cameroon, FAN provided technical training on baseline development using Dinamica EGO and conducted preliminary modeling of forest dynamics in East Province.

1. DINAMICA EGO APPLICATIONS AT FAN-BOLIVIA
E.Armijo1, May 2011
The Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (Friends of Nature Foundation, FAN) is a private nonprofit organization
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dedicated since 1988 to the conservation of biodiversity in Bolivia. FAN’s actions are guided by scientific bases,
technical feasibility, social participation and administrative transparency.
As part of its climate change and conservation planning projects, there has been a need at FAN to use tools
that provide a better understanding of landscape past dynamics and future trajectories. Since 2009, the
Dinamica EGO environment has been applied at FAN to model land use processes in the Amazonian basin of
Bolivia and Southeast Cameroon.
In Bolivia, Dinamica EGO has supported the development of baseline scenarios for a pilot sub-national REDD
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program in Northern Beni and Southern Pando departments (states), in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon. At
this time, the modeling exercise has been completed with a “business as usual” projection of deforestation.
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Examples of Dinamica EGO applications in Bolivia (left) and Cameroon (right), developed at FAN.
In 2010, in the context of an initial phase for a national REDD program of Cameroon (Central Africa), FAN was
invited to provide technical training on baseline development. Dinamica EGO was the tool selected for the land
use simulation workshop, held in the city of Yaoundé, in French, and to carry out a preliminary modeling of
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forest dynamics in the East Province.
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E-mail: earmijo@fan-bo.org