Law Declaring Protected Area National Park Montaña Botaderos

The Montaña de Botaderos National Park is hereby established, located at the boundary between the Departments of Colón, Yoro, and Olancho as an integral part of the National System of Protected Areas of Honduras SINAPH.

The general objective of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park is the conservation of biodiversity, the integrity of ecosystems, the preservation of its genetic resources, soil stability, and water regulation, promoting the organization of existing productive activities, as well as stimulating the generation of sustainable economic alternatives in favor of the local population, through the participation of the central government, local governments, communities and non-governmental organizations with conservation objectives and civil society in general in the activities of administration, conservation, and management.

The specific conservation objectives are the following:

• 1)

  The recovery and protection of ecosystems and biological diversity, the fulfillment of ecological functions and environmental services to the communities involved in the shared management of the area;

• 2)

  Promote environmental education activities within and outside the Park, with emphasis on the relationship between conservation and sustainable socio-economic development;

• 3)

  Promote economic activities compatible with the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, mainly the development of sustainable tourism with the leading participation of residents of communities participating in co-management;

• 4)

  Promote equitable distribution of benefits resulting from conservation and management; and provide areas of scenic beauty for scientific, educational, tourist, and recreational purposes; other activities that cause ecological disturbances or are incompatible with the objectives of creation of the National Park; and, 3) Buffer Zone: It constitutes the Zone that surrounds the Core Zone, it is the area intended to maintain equilibrium, mitigate the impact of human activities in the core zone. It acts as a barrier to external influences. This buffer zone shall contain the rest of the ecosystems present in the park and in it productive activities may be carried out that ensure the sustainability of resources in accordance with what is established in the park's use regulations, which must be developed in a participatory manner and shall be approved by the National Institute for Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF).

The Montaña de Botaderos National Park has a surface area of 96,755.4 Hectares, of which 24,223.7 hectares constitute the CORE ZONE and 72,531.7 hectares the BUFFER ZONE. The coordinates that delimit the Protected Area are described as follows: Starting from Station A at the confluence of the Tuyaco Rivers and Río Sico in a westerly direction to Station B, then northwest to Station C, southwest to Station D, continues in a southwest direction along the El Naranjal River to Station F, southwest to Station H, west to Station I, southwest to Station J, west to Station K, east to Station L, southwest to Station M, route to the Limón River, north to Station N, southwest to Station Ñ, northwest to Station O, northwest to Station P, northwest to Station Q, southwest to Station R, west to Station S, northwest to Station T, north to Station U, east at Station V, northwest to Station WX, northwest to Station Y, northwest to Station Z, A, WX, northwest to Station Y, northwest to Station AA, southwest to Station AP, along the Tocoa River, southwest to Station AQ, southwest to Station AT; south to Station AU, southwest to Station AV, southwest to Station AW, northwest to Station AX, southeast to Station AY, and east to Station A to close the polygon. CHAPTER II DEFINITIONS AND DELIMITATION.

For the purposes of this decree, the terms expressed below have the following meaning: 1) Montaña de Botaderos National Park: It is the area comprised within general limits, intended for the conservation of ecosystems, includes flora and fauna, as well as other associated living organisms, historical-cultural and anthropological resources currently identified and those to be identified in the future, so that this category is dedicated to:

• a)

  Conserve natural or scenic areas;

• b)

  Maintain representative samples of the main existing ecosystems;

• c)

  Serve for the realization of eco-tourism, educational, and scientific activities, which are compatible from the anthropological, ecological, and cultural point of view; and,

• d)

  Conserve the zone of anthropological origin according to guidelines of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History. 2) Core Zone: it is the area considered of national convenience and collective interest for the conservation of its ecosystems; natural area that has received minimal alteration caused by man, within its limits no change or alteration of the ecosystem shall be permitted, no agricultural, pastoral, forest exploitation, mining, dam construction, antenna installation activities, or 51. Protect and promote the conservation of plant and animal species that inhabit within the limits of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park; 6) Protect anthropological resources and promote research of pre-Hispanic monuments found in La Montaña de Botaderos; and, 7) Promote opportunities for the realization of sustainable economic activities compatible with the objectives of creation of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park. ID_N ID_A Zone X Y Latitude Longitude 1 A Buffer 630405.00 1703780.00 15.407700 85.784800 2 B Buffer 624125.00 1704290.00 15.412500 85.843200 3 C Buffer 621607.00 1704640.00 15.415900 85.866700 4 D Buffer 618493.00 1702710.00 15.398500 85.895800 5 E Buffer 616713.00 1702430.00 15.396000 85.912400 6 F Buffer 612704.00 1700110.00 15.375300 85.949900 7 G Buffer 610241.00 1699680.00 15.371500 85.972800 8 H Buffer 608226.00 1697990.00 15.356300 85.991700 9 I Buffer 603302.00 1697720.00 15.354100 86.037600 10 J Buffer 598279.00 1695830.00 15.337200 86.084400 11 K Buffer 597970.00 1696100.00 15.339700 86.087300 12 L Buffer 595188.00 1696260.00 15.341200 86.113200 13 M Buffer 591782.00 1695230.00 15.332000 86.145000 14 N Buffer 592300.00 1697550.00 15.353000 86.140100 15 Ñ Buffer 589804.00 1696800.00 15.346300 86.163300 16 O Buffer 587106.00 1698140.00 15.358500 86.188400 17 P Buffer 586599.00 1700050.00 15.375700 86.193100 18 Q Buffer 583390.00 1700960.00 15.384100 86.223000 19 R Buffer 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Within the buffer zone, "Special Use Zones" may be declared, those that contain protectors of high ecological value for the country or forests whose principal purpose shall be the preservation of the identified utilitarian resource based on field studies.

The usufructuaries of lands located within the limits of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park shall retain their usufruct rights and the current use of exploitation, provided that they comply with the Management Plan that the National Institute for Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF) approves, as well as other regulatory provisions that may be generated in this regard. The Agro-Forestry Groups located in the Buffer Zone that have subscribed Usufruct Contracts for the exploitation of natural resources shall conform to the regulations issued in this respect.

The total surface area of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park is of national tenure, so the lands are considered property of the State, and in accordance with existing regulations shall become part of the Catalog of Inalienable Public Forest Patrimony, so that any land titling process to private parties, as of the publication of this Decree in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta".

The programs and management activities of the Park shall be established through the respective Management Plan in accordance with current regulations.

The administration of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park shall be in charge of the National Institute for Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF), so it shall perform coordination and support functions, other institutions that operate within the perimeter of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park shall coordinate their actions with the National Institute for Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF), and the Institutions and Organizations that in the future perform Co-management functions of the Area.

Once the Montaña de Botaderos National Park is declared, and the Institutions and Organizations interested in participating in a Co-management Agreement have been identified, the Co-management Agreement may be subscribed. Municipalities, Inter-municipal Associations, community organizations, or organized civil society, dedicated to the protection of Protected Areas and Wildlife, in accordance with what is established and regularly provided in Protected Areas and Technical Botaderos; through the subscription of the Co-management Agreement of the Montaña de Botaderos National Park.

Matters not provided for in this Decree shall be governed by the Forest Law, Protected Areas and Wildlife, Decree 98-2007 dated September 19, 2007 and its Regulations, and other current environmental regulations, linked to the National System of Protected Areas of Honduras SINAPH.

This Decree shall enter into force as of the day of its publication in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta". Done in the City of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, in the Session Hall of the National Congress, on the twenty-eighth day of the month of August of two thousand twelve. MAURICIO OLIVA HERRERA PRESIDENT RIGOBERTO CHANG CASTILLO SECRETARY GLADIS AURORA LOPEZ CALDERON SECRETARY To the Executive Power. Therefore: Execute it. Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., August 30, 2012. PORFIRIO LOBO SOSA PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC The Secretary of State in the Departments of Natural Resources and Environment. RIGOBERTO CUÉLLAR CRUZ NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTARY TITLE The undersigned, Secretary of the Second Court of Letters Sectional of Copán, HEREBY ANNOUNCES: That in the supplementary proceeding of Supplementary Title promoted by ISRAEL LOPEZ ALVARADO, who is of legal age, married, farmer, Honduran from Carrizal, Lands of the Cucuyagua Type Copán, is the owner of a plot of land described as follows: with a total area of TWO MANZANAS (2.5000 MZA.), of surface extension with the following boundaries: On the NORTH, borders with Mariano Lara; on the SOUTH, borders with José Rafael López Alvarado; on the EAST, borders with Esteban López; and, on the WEST, borders with Ernesto Alvarado and Horacio Alvarado.- Represented by ATTORNEY OVIDIO LENIN AYALA ORELLANA. Santa Rosa de Copán, 3rd day of the month of September of the year 2012. REBECCA ORTIZ LANZA SECRETARY S S., 8 O. and 8 N. 2012