Protected Areas

What is a protected area?

• Are all the species that have protection

• Is a safe place for humanity

• Is a place created to protect natural and cultural diversity, and water sources

• Is a government declared area

What is the National System of Protected Areas of Ecuador?

• Is the Galápagos National Park

• Is a group of protected areas in Ecuador

• Is the Galápagos Marine Reserve

• Is the Galápagos National Park and Marine Reserve

The National System of Protected Areas of Ecuador ensures.....

• the coverage and connectivity of important ecosystems at the terrestrial, marine and coastal marine levels, of their cultural resources and of the main water sources

• health, food security and wellbeing

• disease and extinction of different species

• areas for cattle and farming production

Write three objectives of the National System of Protected Areas

What percentage of area is protected in Ecuador?

• 50%

• 20%

• 15%

• 35%

Protected areas in Ecuador conserve

• Citys

• Politicians

• Genetic resources

• Virus and bacterias

What are the four subsystems of the National System of Protected Areas in Ecuador?

• Marine, terrestrial, submarine and nocturnal

• Public, private, autonomous and descentralized, and community based

• Plants, animals, bacteria and fungi

• Pink, blue, green and yellow

In what regions of Ecuador is the National System of Protected Areas?

• Highlands, coast, amazon and islands

• Pichincha, Galápagos, Azuay and Napo

• Biodiversity, wellbeing and culture

• North, south, east and west

Which of the following are protected areas?

• Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Cajas

• Puerto Ayora, Puerto Quito, Esmeraldas

• Iguanas, glass frogs, cucuves

• Soft, hard, hot

Choose one protected area for your final project, it can be any of the other 56 protected areas of Ecuador besides Galápagos National Park or Marine Reserve