The collaborative land management planning initiative creates comprehensive plans to conserve jaguar habitats while considering the livelihoods of local communities. It emphasizes participatory processes that actively involve all stakeholders: local community members, government agencies, NGOs, and wildlife conservation experts. Interactive workshops encourage participants to share insights on land use, conservation priorities, and resource management. These workshops serve both as platforms for gathering input and promoting awareness of jaguar conservation’s critical role within the broader ecosystem.

A key component is the inclusion of biodiversity assessments to systematically evaluate ecosystem health, focusing on jaguar populations and their habitats. Socio-economic factors -such as agricultural practices, local economic dependencies, and cultural values - are also considered to ensure plans are both ecologically and socially sustainable. A multi-stakeholder committee is established to ensure the effectiveness and longevity of these strategies. This committee fosters ongoing dialogue and provides mechanisms for adapting plans as environmental and social conditions evolve. This participatory, adaptive approach ensures a harmonious coexistence between jaguar habitats and sustainable economic activities, and is transferable to other regions facing similar land-use challenges.

The ecotourism development initiative focuses on creating sustainable opportunities centered on jaguar conservation, while showcasing the rich biodiversity of the Cerrado. This initiative includes the establishment of eco-lodges and guided tours designed to highlight jaguar habitats and other wildlife, such as bird species and medium to large mammals. Responsible wildlife viewing is carefully orchestrated to minimize human impact and maximize the chances of observing these elusive big cats in their natural environment.

Educational workshops emphasize the ecological role of jaguars and the importance of maintaining ecosystem balance. Interactive learning experiences cover tracking methods, habitat preservation, and apex predator significance. Additionally, cultural exchanges connect tourists with local rural communities, illuminating traditional practices and fostering appreciation for the region’s natural heritage.

To enhance visibility in the global ecotourism market, marketing strategies promote the unique cultural and natural attractions of the Cerrado. Targeted campaigns encourage eco-conscious travelers, both domestic and international, to engage in responsible tourism that generates income for local communities while directly supporting conservation. This model is transferable to other regions seeking to align economic development with biodiversity protection.

This building block emphasizes the transformative role of technology in monitoring wildlife populations and habitats, particularly jaguars. As apex predators, jaguars are key indicators of ecosystem health; understanding their movements and habitat use is vital for effective conservation. Using tools like camera traps, drones, and remote sensing, we collect high-resolution data on jaguar behaviors and habitat changes. Strategically positioned camera traps provide real-time insights into movements, breeding, and conflicts, supporting adaptive management and rapid responses.

Combined with satellite imagery, these technologies offer a holistic view of habitat conditions, tracking land use changes, vegetation cover, and threats such as poaching. Data are transmitted via mobile and satellite networks to a centralized platform, enabling timely analysis and coordinated conservation actions. The program incorporates citizen science by training local community members in data collection and reporting, fostering ownership and enhancing local capacity. E-waste generated by equipment is responsibly managed through certified recycling. This participatory, tech-driven approach strengthens conservation outcomes and long-term sustainability.

This building block emphasizes the development and implementation of comprehensive training programs tailored for local communities, focusing on wildlife conservation strategies, habitat preservation, and effective conflict mitigation techniques essential for both community and ecological health. The program includes multiple modules on key aspects of conservation, such as jaguar behavior, the ecological role of apex predators, and identification of habitats and corridors that facilitate safe wildlife movement.

Participants also receive practical training on sustainable agricultural practices that minimize habitat encroachment and livestock predation. For example, integrating agroforestry techniques helps create buffer zones by planting shade trees alongside cash crops, thus promoting biodiversity and offering alternative livelihoods for local farmers. The program also addresses non-lethal conflict resolution techniques, such as employing guard animals and installing protective fencing, while launching community awareness campaigns that promote coexistence.

This training model is transferable to other regions facing similar human-wildlife conflicts, offering a scalable approach to community-based conservation and long-term ecological resilience.

This component fosters collaboration, transparency, and co-learning among conservation stakeholders by facilitating the open and inclusive exchange of data and insights. By ensuring that conservation strategies are informed by the latest findings, and that communities and researchers work toward shared goals, the platform strengthens collective action for lemur protection. Through targeted communication, training workshops, and education campaigns, it empowers local communities, supports academic engagement, and raises public awareness around biodiversity conservation.

This component directly supports GBF Target 21 (enhancing knowledge sharing and access to data) and Target 22 (inclusive and equitable participation in biodiversity actions), by ensuring that knowledge is not only available, but also usable and co-developed by those closest to the ecosystems in question.

This dual-component system combines a mobile application for real-time data collection with an online platform for data visualization and analysis. The mobile app allows field agents, students, and community members to record species observations, even in remote areas, thanks to offline functionality. Data is automatically synchronized to a central database for visualization and analysis on the web platform.

By enabling spatial tracking of species, improving data flows from protected areas, and involving diverse users in conservation, this component contributes to GBF Target 1 (planning and managing biodiversity areas), Target 3 (strengthening protected areas), Target 4 (preventing species extinction), and Target 22 (ensuring inclusive participation in biodiversity action). These components also form the basis for long-term funding to maintain the project. By collaborating with travel agencies and protected areas, non-intrusive advertisements could be implemented on the website and mobile app to generate revenue and support the website's activities.

A centralized, open-access database compiles high-quality biodiversity data, including lemur species distributions, habitat conditions, and conservation threats. It provides a reliable foundation for research, policy development, and conservation planning across Madagascar. The database is regularly updated with field observations collected via the mobile app and validated by local experts.

By making biodiversity knowledge accessible, up-to-date, and decision-relevant, this component directly contributes to the GBF Target 4 (halt species extinction) and Target 21 (ensure public access to biodiversity knowledge and data). It enables trend monitoring, supports conservation action, and strengthens coordination between field and policy levels.

Relevant ecological processes and incidents that are of interest in environmental change research typically occur in remote areas beyond the reach of terrestrial communication infrastructures. Data generated in the field using animal tags in these regions can often only be transmitted with a delay of days or even weeks. To overcome this delay and ensure no delay in the early-warning system, GAIA develops a satellite communication module for the tags as well as a nanosatellite operating in low earth orbit (LEO): In order to be able to transmit collected data and information directly from the transmitting node to the LEO satellite (Low Earth Orbit), a high-performance satellite IoT radio module will be integrated into the new tags. This guarantees immediate, secure and energy-efficient transmission of the extracted data. The communication system is based on the terrestrial mioty® technology and will be adapted to satellite-typical frequency bands such as L- and S-band for the project. Typical communication protocols, which are sometimes used in the IoT sector, are usually designed for small packet sizes. Further development of the mioty® system will therefore also aim to increase the data rate and message size to enable application scenarios such as image transmissions.

The satellite IoT system will be key for a no-delay communication and thus for an early-warning system. It greatly contributes to the GAIA system in achieving GBF target 4 "Halt Extinction, Protect Genetic Diversity and Manage Human-Wildlife Conflicts". 

To meet the goal of the GAIA Initiative to develop and put into practice a high-tech early-warning system for environmental changes, a new generation of animal tags is a key component. GAIA teams are working on the hardware and software development of miniaturized animal tags with lowest-power sensor technology with camera and image processing. The tags will be energy-autonomous, optimally adapted to the anatomy of vultures and are the basis for further technological features under development such as on-board artificial intelligences for behaviour detection and image recognition as well as a satellite-based IoT communication system.

Additionally, GAIA is developing concepts of distributed artificial intelligence and networks of micro-processors – animal tags that act just like a swarm. Analogous to natural swarm intelligence, the GAIA initiative is mapping digital swarm intelligence in an ad hoc network of microprocessors. These spontaneously forming networks are the foundation for distributed and sensor-based analysis of large amounts of data. Following this path will make it possible for vulture tags, for example, that are present at the same location during feeding events, to link and share tasks such as artificial intelligence analyses and data transmission.

In order to increase resilience to climate change, coffee farming households need the knowledge and skills to apply regenerative agricultural practices that can increase biodiversity, enrich soil health, improve watersheds, and enhance ecosystem services.

Nespresso’s AAA Sustainable Quality Program empowers coffee farmers through three pillars: coffee quality, farm productivity, and social and environmental sustainability. Improvements in these areas can boost farmers’ financial security while also helping their communities and protecting nature.

From July 2022 to April 2024, AAA agronomists — nearly half of them women — delivered monthly lessons to small, self-selected focal farmer groups of roughly 25 coffee farming households. Modules included a wide range of relevant topics, including regenerative agricultural topics (Coffee Pruning and Rejuvenation, Soil Health, Coffee Planting, and Shade Management and Climate Change), household nutrition topics (Nutrition Basics, and Establishment and Planting of Kitchen Gardens), and gender equality topics. With the establishment of demonstration plots, farmers learned through this hands-on, field-based training.