To achieve the objective of mobilizing all social strata, in particular young people and women, the F4F project has opted for the production of seedlings (required for restoration) by local village nurseries. This option has the advantage of avoiding the long distances involved in transporting seedlings, and above all of helping to increase the incomes of young people and women. In addition to the 8 nursery groups, F4F proposed to encourage and support other nursery groups, bringing the total to 18 groups spread across the 5 project cantons. The 18 groups were trained (2 members per group) and provided with production inputs (seeds and nursery equipment). Each group received close advisory support and financial backing for the production of higher-quality seedlings. The seedlings produced were transported by the same actors to the restoration sites during planting activities.

The agroforestry ecosystem restoration model proposed by the F4F-GIZ-DFS project is the fruit of a concept note validated by the relevant technical departments of the Ministries of Agriculture and the Environment, and by local authorities and grassroots communities. It involves the establishment of agro-forestry plantations on the plots of land of households that have voluntarily agreed, with the consent of the landowners, to put at least 0.5 ha of their farmland under restoration, while continuing agricultural production on the restored plot. The aim of these plantations is to increase crop yields, the carbon sequestration capacity of agroforestry parks and the income of beneficiary households, for greater socio-economic and environmental well-being in the Tchamba prefecture.

Using a participatory, inclusive and non-discriminatory approach, beneficiary households are identified through awareness-raising workshops in all project villages. The principle is voluntary and unconstrained, and includes the restoration of at least 0.5 ha of cultivated land capital for each farming household. Each plot is inventoried, geolocated and mapped. The condition of each plot (cultivation history, yield, trees present, etc.) is established and well documented. The restoration of the plot is carried out bilaterally, with each party contributing its share: the project 80% (payment of ambassadors, provision of seedlings, contribution to site preparation, etc.) and the household 20% (in kind, search for stakes, planting, maintenance of the plantation).

Import the raw data of sound into Adobe Audition 3.0 or Avisoft-SASLab Pro sound analysis software, resampled (Sample size: 44100 Hz; Window size: 1024 points), and then saved separately in WAV format. High-quality waveforms and sonograms were selected to measure characteristics of Hainan gibbons’ calls, to analyze the differences in acoustic indexes between individuals, and to build a database of Hainan gibbon sound patterns on an individual basis. Then, perform individual sound recognition using the implemented sound recognition model. Finally, the effectiveness of the sound acquisition is evaluated, and the accuracy of the sound recognition is assessed. Among them, the evaluation of the sound recognition effect is done mainly by comparing with the field research and other sound monitoring results.

Based on the research results, combined with the coverage of 4G signal, a set of domestic automatic sound recording equipment with 4G signal, which has a real-time transmission function (product model: LBird-01211) was installed in the typical environment of Hainan gibbons in the Bawangling Reserve.  

The Creole Language Academy is the authorised body to approve new words into the Creole language. Officially, the collaboration with them was essential to elgitimise the exercise and to obtain official new words and terms for seagrass. On the other hand, the Academy's input was essential in ensuring that the cultural element of the naming process was maintained.

Reptile farming is well positioned to capitalize on emerging markets. Until recently, reptiles have been somewhat overlooked and undervalued due to colonial legacies and euro-centric agri-food tendencies towards warm-blooded livestock. Reptile products are mostly valued in the Global South where the impacts of climate change are predicted to be acute and the drivers for transformational change are dynamic. Dovetailing a novel agri-food sustainability concept with traditional cultural and culinary values in tropical regions offers unique economic opportunities. That said, future growth will depend on good farming practices and close supervision by veterinary and other authorities. Research on envionmental impacts and broader health implications (e.g., feeding unprocessed animal waste protein to reptile livestock) is essential. 

Until recently there was minimal agricultural precedent or appreciation for farmed reptiles, and most people strongly preferred wild-caught alternatives. Vietnam has since celebrated the success of the reptile farming industry, and the general public are now well informed about the industry and the end products. Farmed reptile products are available in most wet markets and on the menu of many mainstream restaurants. A remaining challenge is that there has been no attempt to regulate or inform customers of what farmers feed to their reptiles. Wild-sourced animals (e.g., rodents captured in rice fields), commerical feeds (e.g., fish pellets), and waste protein from agri-food chains (e.g., still born pigs and male chicks from hatcheries) are the most common feed types. The risks associated with these feed inputs need further research and evaluation. The risk of wild laundering of reptiles also remians, but the scale and likelihood have been significantly reduced through more lucrative production models (e.g., selective line breeding to improve production genetics) and improved law enforcement.  

With underwater HD cameras deployed in the rivers, the video streams are fed to an edge device. The edge devices are physically close to the rivers, with the benefit of reduced latency. A highly optimized AI inference software is implemented for real-time fish recognition.

Since establishment, CTPH has cultivated strong partnerships with government and other stakeholders, including other NGOs and the private sector. This ensures that CTPH’s work is in line with government priorities and strategies, is supported by the Government and aligns with other stakeholders. This was particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic when the Government of Uganda instituted a strict ‘no movement’ lockdown to minimise spread of infection. Recognising that CTPH’s work is critical to the survival of Uganda’s mountain gorillas and the livelihoods dependent on them, the Government  granted CTPH special permission to continue its One Health activities.

CTPH’s advocacy activities are more successful due to the ongoing close working relationship that CTPH maintains with government institutions. This includes calling for park rangers and other conservation personnel to be amongst the priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination, primarily because of their close contact with Uganda’s endangered great apes which are highly susceptible to human respiratory diseases and because their survival is not only critical for biodiversity conservation but also for the Ugandan economy. CTPH also successfully advocated for the adoption of more stringent great ape viewing guidelines.