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Mount Diablo and its environs, St Ann
The Pilot project will address the following:
The project seeks to pilot an approach that will allow for a dedicated team of forest rangers (between two to four), equipped with needed resources to address identified gaps in patrol planning allowing for improved enforcement, while also supporting improved governance and management. Successes from this pilot will be replicated with additional response teams established in other targeted areas island wide and are reliant on achieving the following outcomes and activities.
Outcome 1 – Increased Forest enforcement and governance will include the development of mobile emergency rapid response procedure documents (SOP); conducting Mobile Response Procedures & Reporting training, procuring necessary tools and equipment to support initiatives, conducting Forest Law & Investigation training; Conduct UAV/Drone Operation training, erecting perimeter fencing to support boundary marking activities, fabricating and installing signage to support boundary marking and visibility activities and launching mobile emergency rapid response and conduct post impact evaluation. The project will also include stakeholder partnership meetings / community engagement meetings held to support establishment.
The development of an effective mobile emergency response team would provide the following expected change(s):
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Forestry Department
Turneffe Atoll and Lighthouse Reef Atoll
Support local communities’ initiatives aiming to enhance the livelihoods of local people whilst effectively contributing to protected areas management.
Assessing biodiversity viability.
Establishing a science-based roadmap to revive Caribbean marine megafauna in MPAs can be achieved through the following activities:
Through long-term monitoring efforts, the project aims to determine whether the rewilding of marine megafauna is a sustained phenomenon at Turneffe and Lighthouse Reef Atolls. Results are expected to galvanize continued management efforts, inform management plans for the respective atolls, and demonstrate that, with strong stewardship practices, populations of long-lived and late maturing marine megafauna can rebound. The demonstrated success of the MPA model in place at Turneffe Reef Atoll and Lighthouse Reef Atoll will guide justification for replication at other sites.
Ultimately, the project will provide an empirical basis for measuring successful rewilding of ecologically and commercially important marine species throughout Belize and other parts of the region.
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MarAlliance
Bladen Nature Reserve;
Maya Mountain North Forest Reserve;
Golden Stream Corridor Preserve
Enhance the management and governance of priority protected areas by addressing existing limitations.
Realising that protected areas management is people centred, this project aims to change the perception that protected areas are unnecessary and mere land areas locked away from the public. While working toward changing this perception, the project will change the current levels of awareness of rules and regulations related to protected areas by providing education and outreach campaigns on the subject and improving management presence in key hotspots where illegal activities occur within the protected areas. The goal here is for an eventual transition from enforcement to compliance of rules and regulations. Ensuring clear delineation of boundary lines by physically opening the lines and installing signs will assist greatly in creating the awareness necessary for an eventual status of compliance with rules and regulations. To achieve compliance the project will improve and build the capacity of the enforcement & compliance teams, providing enhanced protection for select protected areas in the Maya Golden Landscape.
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Ya’axché Conservation Trust
Iwokrama Protected Rainforest Area
Increased resilience to major shocks and recovery of the protected and conserved areas including sustainable/innovative funding planning.
The project intends to interview stakeholders from the Iwokrama Protected Forest Area which include indigenous community and staff of an Eco-Lodge in the protected area to identify how the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted their operation and livelihoods within the protected area. The information gathered will then be used to prepare an Eco-tourism recovery manual from the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific manuscripts to be submitted for peer review to international journals and several reports to be shared with the stakeholders of Iwokrama and the wider tourism sector of Guyana. The project will also enhance the promotion of Iwokrama through digital media advertisements and online platforms. The entire project will culminate with a tourism stakeholder’s conference where all the project findings will be shared to the larger tourism sector of Guyana.
The Iwokrama Protected Area is a unique case study site that demonstrates the benefits of an effective eco-tourism model that enhances conservation efforts. The challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic are unique to the eco-tourism industry in general as the level of travel restrictions imposed globally was unprecedented. The eco-tourism operations in Iwokrama was not prepared for the measures taken to alleviate COVID-19 which has impacted the operations of its conservation efforts and the livelihoods of numerous indigenous communities. The change the project will therefore bring to the protected area is in better preparing the eco-tourism operation of Iwokrama for future pandemic circumstances similar to COVID-19 by understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic affected current operations.
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Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Guyana
Savannes Bay: Pointe Sable Environmental Protection Area (PSEPA)
Enhanced management and governance of protected or conserved areas.
Enhanced management and governance of protected or conserved areas
Project funding will support piloting of governance and capacity building measures intended to improve the effective management and sustainable use of coastal and marine resources. In the main the project scope will address issues related to the use of coastal and marine resources within a protected area, that includes potential user conflicts; deterioration of coastal and marine habitats and unregulated and unsustainable practices. The project will also contribute to the long-term goal of effectively managing resources and resource users and supporting the sustainable livelihoods within the PSEPA. These include:
This project will improve management and governance of Savannes Bay’s natural resources through interventions that regulate and promote sustainable livelihoods through sustainable use of resources within the protected area including zoning and the certification of seamoss farmers. It is envisaged that the project activities will help to:
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Saint Lucia National Conservation Fund
Department of Fisheries
Parc National Foret des Pins, Boucan Chatte
Maintained livelihoods and/or enhanced resilience of local communities to major shocks caused by COVID pandemic, whilst effectively contributing to protected areas management.
After COVID-19 was detected in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, many citizens returned to Boucan Chatte; a village located in the buffer zone of the Forêt-des-Pins National Park. The returning citizens cleared forested areas for agricultural use thereby accelerating rates of environmental degradation in the region. These unsustainable agricultural practices threatened the primary forest that provides habitat for the critically endangered Black-capped Petrel (BCPE). The project aims to address the need for improved agronomic techniques and enhanced environmental awareness to reduce deforestation and land degradation which threaten biodiversity.
To reduce forest degradation and protect the critically endangered Black-capped petrel (BCPE), the project activities will include training in sustainable agricultural practices to local farmers associations, teaching environmental education in local schools, building two community tree nurseries, and enhancing research and conservation of the BCPE.
The project is implemented near the Forêt-des-Pins National Park providing locals with the opportunity to work as part of an association that provides farmers with access to loans and savings, obtaining skills in land restoration and sustainable agricultural practices. This will reduce deforestation for agricultural expansion. It is envisaged that with the construction of three tree crop nurseries farmers will have the capacity to continue restoring degraded areas.
Additionally, the project will provide the opportunity for field staff researchers to identify additional BCPE nest cavities and better understand drivers and cause of the species decline in the community and potential measures to mitigate against threats. Furthermore, the environmental education subjects taught in local schools will help kids to develop a passion to protect their environment.
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Action pour la Sauvegarde de l’Ecologie en Haïti (ACSEH)
Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC) and Plant With Purpose
Chumbe Island Coral Park
This project will address three priority needs of the protected area:
Chumbe Island Coral Park is a not-for-profit private marine and terrestrial protected area in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Funded entirely by sustainable ecotourism, the park has been self-financing for more than 20 years. Due to COVID19 however, tourism came to a complete standstill in 2020 and is still nowhere near to pre-Covid numbers. We have had to put 29 out of 41 staff on unpaid leave and the remaining 12 staff have been working fulltime on a reduced salary to keep the park protected during these difficult times. This project will fund the salaries and patrol costs of the conservation team to keep the island protected and secure from poaching threats.
The following project activities will ensure that conservation management on Chumbe Island will continue, despite the fact that the eco-lodge still has limited to no bookings, and address the urgent threat on the marine park, Chumbe staff and local fishing communities:
Most importantly, project implementation will allow for full patrol operations over the coming 12 months which will decrease poaching attempts inside the MPA and subsequently ensure that 25 years of successful conservation efforts are not lost. Moreover, eight previous Chumbe team members will receive full-time employment for the whole project duration, each supporting on average 12 dependents in their local communities. Zanzibari community members from neigbouring fishing villages will gain knowledge and practical insights in nature conservation through Chumbe’s extensive environmental education program which will positively impact compliance to MPA regulations. Especially young fishers, who are economically impacted by the pandemic, will be offered a skill development course with tangible skills that will increase their employability in conservation and marine tourism. Two motivated youth will have access to a six-month internship with the prospect of employment on Chumbe Island once the effects of the pandemic have subsided. At least 15 local rangers from two other marine conservation areas in Unguja will benefit from the establishment of a Ranger Network with enhanced skills and knowledge in effective MPA management which will strengthen relationships and cooperation between the rangers.
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Chumbe Island Coral Park (CHICOP)
Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve (USNFR)
Enhanced management and governance of protected or conserved areas
This project will address three priority needs of the protected area:
1. Strengthening the capacity of the patrol team in USNFR.
2. Reducing the illegal activities in USFNR.
3. Integrate results of ecological monitoring in protection planning.
Continue collaborating with Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre (UEMC), which monitors threatened species in USFNR and uses existing data and new results to identify priority areas for protection.
As a direct result of this project, STEP expects to continue collaborating with TFS during this difficult period in management and protection efforts with the goal of significantly reducing illegal activities threatening the tropical biodiversity hotspot and aiming to attain the following changes:
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Southern Tanzania Elephant Program (STEP)
Lumo Community Wildlife Conservancy
Satao Elerai Conservancy
This project will enhance management and governance of Lumo and Satao Elerai Conservancies by deploying SAGE diagnostic tool to identify and prioritize for action, key management and governance issues within the two conservancies.
While the growth of conservancies has been on an upward trajectory in the country, most conservancies are still grappling with disputes and conflicts arising from governance challenges, local politics and unfulfilled expectations. This project seeks to strengthen governance and management of Lumo and Satao Elerai Conservancies for improved development and conservation outcomes.
Project implementation will entail a number of activities under three broad categories: Preparation, Assessment and Reporting. Under preparation, KWCA and IIED will conduct an introductory workshop targeting the stakeholders of the two sites. The workshops will be approximately2-3 hours long and will aim at introducing the stakeholders to the SAGE tool as well as site profiling and assessment planning. The workshops stakeholders will include local government representatives, conservation NGOs working in the two landscapes, Kenya Wildlife Service representatives, conservancy committee members, youth and women representatives. The introductory phase will give way to Assessment where a one-day assessment workshop will be held for the two sites. The Assessment workshop will be followed by a one-day synthesis workshop for the two sites to present findings and draw action plans. Finally, Assessment report shall be developed and disseminated to the key stakeholders.
Conservancies are increasingly being embraced in Kenya and indeed elsewhere, as institutions capable of providing socio-economic development to local communities while at the same time providing the much-needed space for wildlife conservation. However, the potential of wildlife conservancies in Kenya are yet to be fully exploited due in part to numerous governance and management challenges including inequitable distribution of resources, marginalization of women and youth, positon related disputes and conflicts and elite capture. Through the deployment of SAGE governance and equity diagnostic tool, this project shall identify governance and management issues within the two conservancies and prioritize action plans. It is hoped that ultimately, the implementation of the action plans will strengthen governance and management of the two conservancies and enhance development and conservation outcomes.
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Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Kisite Mpunguti Marine Conservation Area
Result 1: Improved management effectiveness of Kisite–Mpunguti Marine Park
Result 2: Improved governance, communities’ participation, equity and benefit sharing in KMMP and surrounding community management areas
Result 3: Enhanced knowledge management; Improved communication, education & public awareness (CEPA)
Result on ESMS
Development, implementation, and monitoring for an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP)
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Kenya Wildlife Service
WWF Kenya