Acceso PanAm’s conservation program has four components that connect people and mountains: (a) support for better protected area management; (b) community engagement and stewardship; (c) citizen science; and (d) public policy advocacy.
This specific project addresses certain issues in the Piedra Parada Natural Protected Area (Piedra Parada NPA), a provincial park in Argentinean Patagonia by proposing solutions to manage human waste in wilderness areas and involve the local community in the management of the Natural Protected Area through the construction of two dry toilets within the Piedra Parada NPA boundaries and understanding the local context.
The applied result was a simple and economical option to manage waste in a wild and remote location, provide a healthier human experience in the region, as well as an improvement for the local environment.