News

December 2000

United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization

Convention Concerning the Protection of the
World Cultural and Natural Heritiage

WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE
Twenty-fourth session

Cairns, Australia

http://whc.unesco.org/sites/967.htm

Brief description by UNESCO: Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is one of the largest (1,523,000 ha) and most intact parks in the Amazon Basin. With altitudinal diversity stretching from 200 to nearly 1000 meters, it is the site of a rich mosaic of habitat types from Cerrado savannah and forest to upland evergreen Amazonian forests. The park boasts an evolutionary history dating back over a billion years to the Precambrian. An estimated 4,000 floristic species as well as over 600 bird species as well as viable populations of many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate species are contained in the park.

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/noelkempffmercado.html

May 23, 2001

Testimony of Dale E. Heydlauff

Senior Vice President-Environmental Affairs
American Electric Power Company
Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change:
A Case Study Before the Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space Senate Commerce,
Science and Transportation Committee

www.senate.gov/~commerce/hearings/0523hey.PDF

March 2002

Project Giant Otter

Its status in the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park

http://subsites.bp.com/centres/press/conservation/this_year/otter.asp

March 24, 2003

Kennedy School Bestows Inaugural Roy Family Award to
Bolivia-U.S. Public-Private Partnership

CAMBRIDGE, MA --- The John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University is proud to announce
the inaugural winner of the Roy Family Award, established
to recognize an outstanding effort by public and private
sector organizations working together to protect our
environment or preserve uniquely valuable natural
resources.

After reviewing applications from around the world, the
2003 Roy Family Award will be presented to the Noel
Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia. The
project partners are American Electric Power (AEP), the
oil and gas company BP, the Government of Bolivia,
Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), PacifiCorp,
and The Nature Conservancy.

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/press/releases/2003/roy_awards_032403.htm