Servicio Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado
The Servicio Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado SERNANP (National Agency for the Protection and Conservation of Natural Areas) is the state nature conservation agency of Peru . SERNANP looks after all state protected areas with the IUCN category, including the Manú National Park and the Titicaca National Reserve . The agency reports to the Ministry of the Environment.
The 1993 Constitution of Peru recognizes the natural resources and diversity of this country's ecosystems as national heritage. In 1992 the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales was founded as a department of the Ministry of Agriculture. It is subject to the Sistema Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado which keeps a list of all protected areas in Peru. In the past there have repeatedly been disputes over competence in nature conservation between the executive agencies of the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture ( Instituto Nacional de Recursos Naturales ) and the Ministry of the Environment ( Servicio Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado ).
Supervised areas
A total of 73 areas with a total of 195,487.7 km² or 15.21% of the land area of Peru are protected by the government: 13 national parks ( Parques Nacionales ), 15 nature reserves ( Reservas Nacionales ), 9 protected areas ( Santuarios Nacionales ), 4 historical protected areas ( Santuarios Históricos ), 3 protected areas for forest fauna ( Refugios de Vida Silvestre ), 2 landscape protection areas ( Reservas Paisajísticas ), 6 forest protection areas ( Bosques de Protección ), 8 communal protected areas for indigenous peoples ( Refugios Comunales ), 2 hunting reserves ( Cotos de Caza ) and 12 other protected areas ( Zonas Reservadas ).
National parks
Protected areas
- Reserva Nacional del Titicaca (36180 hectares) in front of Puno
Individual evidence
- ↑ SINANPE: Áreas Naturales Protegidas ( Memento of April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 121 kB) of August 24, 2011.