Nature Collectibles are digital twins of real world species and allow the monetarisation of biodiversity assets over a net zero-carbon bockchain

Pathogen and disease detection under the PREDICT and PREDICT-2 projects as well as other research initiatives have generated a strong evidence base on the drivers of zoonotic diseases. In Liberia, the finding of Ebola virus antibodies in a bat provided evidence that Ebola is circulating in wildlife in the West Africa region and signaled that there are ongoing spillover risks requiring public health attention. 

Many people interact with wildlife and domestic animals in Liberia, but overall awareness about zoonotic disease risks is low. Raising awareness involved information about the purpose of the project, as well as dedicated engagement using the 'Living Safely with Bats' visual book. This messgaing integrated biodiversity and health information, in line with a One Health approach. 

Communities were initially concerned about outsiders coming to their villages. Sustained engagement with community leaders, and outreach to community members, helped to establish trust over time. In particular, a key feedback was hearing the appreciation that the team came back to share information.

Although Gomeza Community used Self-drive to restore the forest reserve, the community attracted attention from government and non-governmental organisations. The partnerships led to provision of technical capacity building to the community on sivicultural aspects. Other insitutions also supported the community in their vision. This led to reduced resource need per institution to work with the community.

The species in focus was a demand for the conservationists, ecologists, biologists, etc. Thus, the importance of the target species and the habitat at the global level gave the interventions a global impact. The threatened species is a part of the global conservation action, therefore, took immediate attention.                            

Another important aspect of the intervention was the ability of replication and site-specificity. These features made the interventions important for all such areas where there is a need of conservation of certain habitats and species.

The energetic zeal and passion of the mentors and the local youth at every phase, from step one of planning to the last one of execution, could be treated as important feature in success of the interventions. The stakeholders learned about the scope of other attributes of tourism at Abu Hills. This triggered the interest of stakeholders to get involved with the tourism sector in anyway. Thus, nature tourism was popularized. 

Due respect was given to the indigenous customs and traditions of the target (deprived) section of the community. This action transformed the local community to take the ownership which fostered community participation resulting into the success of the interventions.

The most important feature of the intervention was the set-target and well defined objectives. Based on the principle of win-win at the end of all the sides, the strategies were planned and executed. Another important feature included the flexible and customized approach of the strategy.