Amazon Basin Protected Areas Workshop
Panama, Rep. of Panama
June 22-24, 2005

Countries members of the Amazon Basin
Country	Participant	Organization
Bolivia	Vladimir Orsolini	SERNAP - Servicio Nacional de Áreas Protegidas
Brazil	Antonia Lucia Monteiro	Sistema de Informação das Unidades de Conservação - SIUC-IBAMA
Brazil	Edinaldo Nelson dos Santos Silva	INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Amazonicas
Colombia	Rodrigo Botero	Parques Nacionales de Colombia
Ecuador	Edgar Rivera	Dirección Nacional de Biodiversidad y Áreas Protegidas. Ministerio del Ambiente
Guyana / Suriname Guyana Frencesa	Richard Pasquis	CIRAD - Centro de Desenvolvimiento Sustentavel (CDS). Universidad de Brasilia (UnB)
Peru	Miryan García Donayre	Intendencia de Áreas Naturales Protegidas. Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales-INRENA. Ministerio de Agricultura.
Venezuela	Hildebrando Arangú	INPARQUES. Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales

Guest Organizations
Country	Participant	Organization
US	Viviana Salas	Parkswatch Brochure about Parkswatch
	Leonardo Lacerna	Protected Areas Iniciative. WWF International
US	Mauricio Jaimes	Trimble
US	Ana Cristina Villegas	AAS Diplomacy Fellow. Department of State
Panama	Rosa Montañez	CREHO - Centro Regional RAMSAR para el Hemisferio Occidental
US	Gary Geller	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Satellite Data for Conservation: The Protected Area Archive

Sponsor Organization of the Workshop
Country	Participant	Organization
US	Jaime Cavelier	Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

Coordinator Organizations of the Workshop
Participant	Organization
Richard Huber	OAS - Organization of American States
Carolina Peña	OAS - Organization of American States
Alvaro Espinel	Consultant OAS - Organization of American States
Iván Valdespino	IABIN - Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network - IABIN overview
Rita Besana	IABIN - Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network - Focal Points Roles
Boris Ramirez	IABIN - Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network - Standards and Protocols

OAS - Office for Sustainable Development and Environment, News and photos