Abstract
Panama and Costa Rica in 1988 created the La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, an international transboundary effort for conservation development. The La Amistad effort is one of the oldest trans-boundary projects in Central America. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has been prominent in this effort along with other NGOs and diverse other participants. Stakeholder (participant) identification and description is essential to understand the context of the many natural resource management and policy challenges of this cooperative effort. We found that needed contextual mapping has been overly selective and is not comprehensive enough. This has limited options for progress. Past contextual mapping has overlooked stakeholders who could aid the initiative as well as participants who are actively opposed to it. We offer questions and worksheets (matrices) that can be used to contextually map conservation projects to aid TNC and all other participants achieve conservation development in the common interest.
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