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Conservation and Managed Habitats

Through our Conservation and Managed Habitats program, PPI collaborates with local experts, cooperatives and communities to develop management protocols for plant resources of subsistence or commercial importance. Protocols of this program are designed around local knowledge and ecological sciences and are calibrated to satisfy conservation interests and local livelihood needs.

Below is information on PPI's Conservation and Managed Habitats activities in Mexico, Southern Africa, India, Indonesia and China.

Mexico

PPI works in two regions in Mexico:  the Selva Maya area of the Yucatan Peninsula and the Guerrero region of southwestern Mexico.  The Selva Maya  (the Mayan Forest) is a biologically and culturally rich forest located in an area comprised of southeastern Mexico and northern Belize and Guatemala; it is the largest tract of rainforest in the Americas second only to the Amazon.

In the Selva Maya, PPI's Conservation and Habitats program is working with local communities to identify and produce products made from local species and thereby create economic alternatives to deforestation.  In Guerrero, PPI is working with local communities to define and develop standards for the sustainable harvesting of a regionally important nontimber forest product, wild maguey (Agave spp), used in creating fermented beverages such as pulque and mescal.