Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Expansion of intensive shrimp farms in the
Muisne Canton, Ecuador
- Excessive propagation of uncontrolled shrimp farms or
artificial farms generating legal and illegal actors.
- Ilegal actors
- False concessions for shrimp
farming in the mangrove area
- Illegal shrimp farmers not
associated with local organizations
- Legal actors
- Shrimp industry
- Central Government of Ecuador
- Local Shrimp Associations
- Temporary concessions for shrimp
farming in the mangrove area
- The mangroves fulfill two functions
- Source of sustenance
for the inhabitants of
the region
- Medium of protection of the
coasts of marine erosion and
source of birth and food for
species of primary marine
ecosystems of the region.
- Dispute location
- Ecuador, Province of Esmeraldas,
Muisne Village
- Cause of conflict
- Ancestral right of the inhabitants to
the development of artisanal fishing
and exploitation of the mangrove.
- By government dispense has been delivered in
concession to large companies and some local for the
development of artificial shrimp farming, a situation
also exploited by illegal for the economic advantage.
- Protection of the environment
and primary marine ecosystem.
- Environmentally, mangroves protect
the coast from marine erosion
- Ecosystem because the mangrove are source of birth
of mollusks and shrimp, as well as this is a food for a
native fish of the sea, and some inhabitants use their
wood to build their houses and make any handicrafts
- Parts of the conflict
- Defenders of the mangrove
- Fundación de Defensa Ecológica (FUNDECOL)
- Small groups organized against the
destruction and privatization of mangroves
- Mangrove Users Group
- Groups of women Concheras
- VS.
- Mangrove Exterminators
- Central Goverment
- Legal grants
- Ilegal grants and shrimps fishers
- Interestingly economic and voracious
growth of the shrimp industry
- Protection of the environment and
the ecological chain of the region.
- Guarantee their traditional methods
of subsistence and self-sustainability.
- Inclusion and vindication of women's
rights.
- Threats to the safety
- In the environmental
- Threats against
biodiversity
- Extinction of native marine
species
- Erosion of coastal zones
- In the economics
- Excessive privatization and
deregulation of public
property
- Generalized economic
uncertainty
- Socially
- Modification of the labor
market
- Social disintegration
- Increase in poverty in the
region