1 Mexico´s outreach efforts onInvasive Species Ana Isabel González, Patricia Koleff, Yolanda Barrios, Silvia De Jesús, Georgia Born-Schmidt and Nubia Morales

2 Overview GEF_ IAS ProjectGEF_ IAS Project “Enhancing National Capacities to Manage Invasive Alien Species (IAS) by Implementing the National Strategy on IAS” GEF – Financing Agency PNUD – Implemening Agency CONABIO – Main Coordination Entity CONANP – Coordination Entity

3 Magnets, stickers, and other materialsStakeholder groups Government / Decision makers Productive sector Commercial sector General public Children Tools Workshops Outreach: an effort to bring services or information to people where they live or spend time Species sheets Web–pages Books PA, islands sheets Courses Posters Magnets, stickers, and other materials Scientific Publications Media Publications for general public

4 Decision makers and technical and field staffTetraTech Staff 2013 ICS- 2013 Workshops Incident command system for IAS Risk assesment Diploma course ICS-2016 70 participants Aim: Introduce federal government staff to Incident Command System for Invasive species

5 Invasive aquatic weeds: Problems and control strategiesCapacity building for government staff of the water management sectors to identify and manage invasive aquatic weeds. Mexican institute of Water technology 2016, 22 participants Morelos.

6 Seminar Workshop for Legislators“Invasive alien species and their impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity” Mexico City, January, 2017 20 attendees Got a request to replicate it for the state of Chiapas A book coming soon A new proposal for Law (on Biodiversity, that is under discussion)

7 Workshop on Environmental journalism: Invasive Exotic SpeciesValle de Bravo, April, 2017 22 participants

8 Diploma course: Principles for prevention, management and eradication of Invasive Alien SpeciesFirst in its kind in Spanish Online diploma 14 sections 19 national experts as teaching staff 98 students (54 in 2016 and 44 in 2017, including participants from Peru and Costa Rica) Students National Protected Areas Commission (CONANP) Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) Ministry of Environment Ministry of Agriculture National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR) Thanks to Amanda Gonzales/Wildlife without borders

9 Ornamental fish Mexico city: main MarketMorelos: main producer 40, 000,000 fish 2016 Fish fauna composition in Morelos (Mendoza 2010) Fish fauna composition in Central Mexico (Contreras-MacBeath et al 2014)

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11 Commercial sector Association of Ornamental Fish Producers from Mexico city Posters Outreach talks to general public Good practices Design of new transport bags

12 Portal del agua www.agua.org.mxMaterials for primary school teachers Portal del agua

13 Materials for the general publicDeveloped and designed by postgraduate students on Scientific Outreach at UNAM

14 www.biodiveridad.gob.mx/invasoras Information provided: - DefinitionsList of species Species pages Data Publications Tools Links Outreach materials

15 Information requests on IAS

16 Species information sheets and technical opinions

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18 Image Database http://bdi.conabio.gob.mx/fotoweb/

19 Agradecer a quienes nos han dejado traducir y usar materialesOrientados al público general

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23 Merci! Thank you! ¡Gracias!Acknowledgements to all CONABIO’s staff, especially to: Dir. Gral de Comunicación de la Ciencia: Carlos Galindo, Fabiola López Saldaña, laura Rojas, Laura Cárdenas, Bernardo terroba, Ivette Mota, Susana María Rivas, Yadira Estrada, Isaí Guerrero etc… And to all researchers and institutions that tirelessly continue to work and share their experiences and knowledge with us. Especially: Roberto Mendoza, Heike Vibrans, Jordan Golubov, Ana Ortiz Monasterio, Eduardo Rendón, Federico Mendez, Alfonso Aguirre, Enrique Martinez, Gustavo González, Paco Navarrete, Eduardo Jiménez, Mayra Valdez, Gustavo Torres, Carlos Ramírez, Humberto Mejía, Juan Antonio Ocampo, Francisco Espinosa, Manuel Elías, Ek del Val, Gabino Rodríguez, Juan Jacobo Schmitter, Gerardo Suzan and many many more… Patricia Koleff Ana Isabel González Yolanda Barrios Silvia De Jesús Nubia Morales Georgia Born-Schmidt Jordi Parpal Rodrigo Mejía Conabio Liga Periférico-Insurgentes Sur 4903 Col. Parques del Pedregal 14010, Tlalpan, Mexico City MEXICO