50

Insular Caribbean (primarily Jamaica), the Northern and Central

Andes (i.e., Ecuador, Peru), Amazonia, (i.e., Brazil), and

Northern Mexico.

The region also harbors globally important

coral reefs and marine ecosystems in the Caribbean and the

Galapagos.

USAID assisted countries important for biodiversity

conservation in LAC include all those in Central America plus

Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru.

Agency Strategic Goal:

The World's Environment Protected for Long Term

Sustainability

Indicators:

Nationally protected area (in thousands of square

kilometers and as percent of total land area)

Source:

World Development Indicators and World Resources Institute

based on data from the World Conservation Monitoring Center

Performance Goal 2:

Conservation of

YEAR

1994

1999

*

biologically significant habitat

(km x1000

(km x100

)

0)

improved.

(%)

(%)

PLANNED

3308

km

5.7%

ACTUAL

3,007

km

5.18%

Note:

Top figure is thousands of square

AFR

PLN

948

km

kilometers of terrestrial based protected

areas according to the World Conservation

6.3%

Monitoring Center.

Protected areas

ACT

862 km 

include 5 World Conservation Union (IUCN)

5.81%

categories (national parks, managed

natural reserves, etc.).

Bottom figure

ANE

PLN

524

km

is same area as a percentage of total

land area. This indicator is for USAID 

5.4%

assisted countries only.

ACT

476 km 

Since the most recently available

4.9%

information is from 1994 (and is usually

updated annually), projecting this to

LAC

PLN

908

km

1999 is difficult at best.

A nominal one

percent per year increase over five years

7.1%

of the total area is given for 1999.

For

ACT

829 km 

example if the protected area coverage in

6.45%

1994 is 100 km  or 10%, the 1999 figures

would be 105 km  or 10.5%.

ENI

PLN

924

km

4.8%

ACT

840 km 

4.33%

Comment(s):

*If current data reporting remains the same, actual 1999

figures would not be available until 2004.