Training opportunities also include innovative training projects and in-service workshops. Providing training opportunities for reserve directors to improve and enhance their practical skills. Participants from throughout the hemisphere receive training at sites in Mexico and Brazil. Building archives and clearinghouses of information needed to strengthen natural resource management. Regional clearinghouses provide access to technical literature, especially unpublished local reports and documents.
All projects incorporate full participation and cost-sharing by national partners.
Cooperation among these entities and the WHP as well as other private sector partners has contributed significantly to the success of the Program. As a result of the many shared borders, conservation efforts throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, may have the most direct and immediate impact on the protection of hundreds of migratory species. The increasing number and complexity of environmental problems along national borders will require regional and global solutions which will only be found through cooperation among nations. In the years to come, the Western Hemisphere Program will be challenged to maintain growth in the qualitative gains achieved and strive toward higher levels of success as pressures on natural resources mount and financial resources diminish. With continued support for its Program, investment in human potential will impact the future of the hemisphere positively.