The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) was established by indigenous people in southern Belize to provide technical assistance to indigenous communities to communicate effectively with government agencies and advocate for policy reform. SATIIM's objectives include protection of the ecological integrity and cultural values of the Sarstoon-Temash region, development and implementation of a park management strategy, development and implementation of a regional land management strategy, facilitation of community participation in regional conservation/natural resource management and development initiatives and encouragement of sustainable agricultural systems. The objective of the 'Community Managed Sarstoon Temash Conservation Project' (COMSTEC) project is to reduce land degradation and conserve globally significant biodiversity resources in the STNP and its buffer zones. Proposed activities are based on the concept of co-management, as the most effective means for addressing open access problems related to indigenous peoples and natural resource use. Co-management aims to reconstitute the incentives at the local level in a way that those closest to the resource - the local indigenous people - are given a greater stake in its long-run viability and to directly involve the population in the effective protection of resources. In practice, this means increasing the feasibility of exclusion (promoting a sense of responsibility for the resource, improving control) and creating awareness for joint benefits of the resource (biodiversity, soil and water conservation).
SATIIM's activities are mainly oriented towards regional (e.g., TRIGOH, MBRS) and transboundary (e.g., TRIGOH, FUNDAECO, Oak Foundation (binational watershed)) projects and mush less so towards technical partnerships (e.g., EcoLogic) and international initiatives (e.g., WPCA).
Data collection activities focus on social, biological and baseline biodiversity data.
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Rapid Ecological Assessment of Sarstoon-Temash National Park. Vol. I
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Rapid Ecological Assessment of Sarstoon-Temash National Park. Vol. II
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