The Bio-Diversity Agreement (CBD), ratified by Ecuador and Peru, obligates these countries to facilitating mechanisms to access information (CHMs) on the subject. DarwinNet, in first instance, became the instrument to access information about the dry forests of Northwest Peru and Ecuador, also known as the Tumbesian Endemism Region. This system of binational information, through its components (www.darwinnet.org, bulletins, distribution material and meetings) looks to systematize and to spread the necessary and available information among the different actors or users, thus contributing to better decision making on the use and development of policies of conservation of the biodiversity in the region.
By these principles and in this new phase, DarwinNet focuses on the actors (communities, institutions, and heads or administrators of reserves or protected natural areas) of about 10 Important Areas of Bird Conservation (IBAs - Important Bird Area), among whom it promotes an open exchange of experiences and information, through training courses and meetings on high-priority subjects (i.e. trans border traffic of wild species), thus enhance capacities and bonds of communities, institutions and authorities on behalf of the conservation of the region.
