Monitoring | PANORAMA

Strategic alliances between the beneficiaries of tourism in Madidi

The Madidi National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area coordinates with the Vice-Ministry of Tourism, under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and local entities to prioritize this activity as a strategy for local and regional development, in addition to the recovery of the development vision and the use of natural, scenic and cultural values.

The institutions maintain a common vision based on nature conservation.
Institutional conditions are in place to promote tourism as a local development strategy.

Strategic alliances in the area have been strengthened with a vision of tourism-driven development; this process is implemented with the participation of various stakeholders from different sectors, which has allowed for the planning of activities at different scales and scopes.
The planning processes were established with a broad participation of the territorial actors, once they achieve a common objective, the context conditions were generated to work in a sectorial manner, in this case tourism, since with common objectives the search for different sources of funds is carried out and a common vision is established to have an impact in the medium and long term.
Conservation objectives are very important when supporting development processes such as tourism. The main criterion to achieve conservation can be tourism, seen as a means to obtain tools and conditions establishing a context to conserve the protected area.

Implementation

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Subnational

National

Farmer managed natural regeneration management

A family managing a FMNR stand

Captured by Stevie matcheso

This is a landscape approach where farmers leave deliberately selected native tree species on their farm land either as tree stand or as co-exsisting with crops or both. The farmer manages the trees in such a way that they do not deprive crops of the growing factors. Otherwise the trees in the farm lands improve the soil fertility and structure, protect soil from erosion while supplies wood energy and livestock fodder to the farmer. The silvicultural practices include pruning, treaming, thinning and coppicing.

Availability of stumps in the farm land is an opportunity that hundreds of hactorage can be achieved within short period of time. Community involvement is almost obvious as the individual farmers become the primary beneficiaries of the technology unlike other solutions. The regenerants are independent of harsh conditions such as inadequate rains. The shoots start sprouting right in dry season as the mother stump has well established roots. Hence the technology never register unsuccessful results.

Farmer managed natural regeneration is a successful solution. As the regenerants originate from well established stumps which is native, the technology withstands unfavourable weather circumstances such just it is the promising, yielding and profiting project.

Assisted natural regeneration and soil and water conservation

Assisted natural regeneration stand

Captured by Stevie matcheso

This is the process where degraded forests are left deliberately to regenerate from the stumps, roots or seeds, but man comes in to undertake selected activities to allow the regenerants to grow vigour and health. The activities may include pruning, singling out, thinning, weeding or even fire prevention activities.

The building block has proven to be effective. The fact the the shoots are from well established stump supported by already grown roots, the regenerants grow very fast and become very resistant to harsh environment such as inadequate rains. Another factor is that the species are already in their native land, hence grow fast and successfully. The technology is cheap - Neither tubes nor nursery work and costs are needed.

It is cheap technology. No nursery work or costs are incurred, yet resistant to harsh growing conditions

Interaction between conservation and population health

Nature conservation and its relationship with the quality of life and health of the local population.

Conservation and maintenance of functional environmental conditions are a priority to avoid emerging and zoonotic diseases.
Preservation of local knowledge and appreciation by indigenous peoples of plants and animals for use in local medicine and culture.
Management actions by protected areas to systematize and rescue local knowledge.

The relationship between nature and health is becoming more and more critical, there are many empirical evidences that diseases that affect humans through the relationship with wild species can cause outbreaks and new pandemics. In this sense, the conservation and maintenance of stable natural conditions and functional food chains can reduce this risk.

The risk of degradation affecting vulnerable people in local communities is very high, so protected areas are playing a critical role in conservation.

Strengthening the market based on forest products

The Manuripi National Amazon Wildlife Reserve builds its sustainability based on the management and harvesting of Amazonian fruits within the territory. The measures adopted within the different links of the value chain are very important to achieve benefits for the local population.

The valuation of forest products is maintained or improved to promote these activities and the country and region provide support to improve production.
The prices of these products are stable or rising and promote a profit for the harvesters.
The certification provided by the reserve motivates harvesting activities to continue with a vision of economic benefits, environmental sustainability and social responsibility, which demonstrates a triple impact project.

Financial sustainability is a mitigator of social and environmental conflicts since many of the population requires support in establishing viable alternatives for local progress. Once the forest products have been identified and the productive chain has been analyzed, investments help to improve production and general satisfaction with the conservation of nature through sustainable use.

Integrated forest management

Integrated forest management as a local development strategy allows articulating different perceptions in a joint vision to achieve sustainable development. This is a State policy that has been implemented since 2009 and has established important advances such as the regulation of land use and availability.

To this end, the protected area plays a fundamental role in integrating actions from the local level that are then integrated into the national policy and possibly into the regional conservation vision.

Territorial management policies are carried out by each of the local actors, which establishes an organization of functions and activities at different scales.
Communities comply with the mandate and potential land use and maintain a stable natural structure.

Integrated forest management requires an approach that makes visible the multiple perspectives that the context demands. For this reason, it is important to have transdisciplinary teams to achieve a joint vision of development.

In addition, the active participation of institutions that invest resources, such as ACEAA and WWF, is required.

Biological monitoring.

Biological monitoring of species that may be threatened by roadkill events allows for the establishment of a program to reduce impacts by providing first-hand information.

Implementation of online applications accessible to park ranger personnel to collect information on roadkill events.
Characterization of the behavior of the species and places with the highest rate of wildlife roadkill, in order to spatialize the phenomenon and establish response strategies.

Experiences in other localities and regions should be investigated and sought in order to define the relevance of adopting methodologies or tools that can be adapted to local realities.
The participation of more local stakeholders should be sought to improve the monitoring system.
Carry out constant feedback processes to improve the quality of data collection, such as taking photographs to achieve a better framing and capture of important characteristics for scientific identification, as well as the collection of event coordinates, which are the basic data.

Monitoring

Subnational

Youth engagement

Tree Nursery management

Yes

Youth centric approach

Leadership and capacity building of community members and school learners.

Engaging the youths is vital for sustainable development and build back better

Documentation and dissemination of results

Review phase

Entirety

Local

Self-help

Capacity building training

Yes

The project used locally available personnel and resources hence ensuring sustainability.

Strong local leadership from the community and primary school was the most important enabling factor.

Future belongs to the organised.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Review phase

Entirety

Local

Monitoreo y seguimiento.

DIA DE CAMPO BOSQUE SECUNDARIO

CODEFORSA

El monitoreo y seguimiento del proyecto de enriquecimiento del bosque secundario es fundamental para el éxito de este, ya que la vegetación circundante a los árboles plantados podría afectar el crecimiento de los mismos y la vegetación del sotobosque de tipo enredadera podría dañar físicamente los árboles hasta afectarlos severamente.

Las actividades de mantenimiento consisten en eliminación de malezas circundantes a los árboles establecidos y verificar un buen acceso a iluminación natural para acelerar el crecimiento de estos. La limpieza de las franjas establecidas para los árboles plantados se realizará de forma manual a un ancho de uno o dos metros por toda la longitud de cada franja. Esta actividad se realizará cada dos meses en los 18 primeros meses.

En este proyecto se realizaron dos días de campo con los propietarios de las áreas de bosque, colegas ingenieros forestales, autoridades gubernamentales y académicas para presentar los resultados de la evaluación de los bosques secundarios, los resultados obtenidos y conocer la opinión de los propietarios de los bosques secundarios sobre la intensión mantener estas áreas bajo la cobertura actual y los beneficios de no realizar cambio de uso del suelo.

- Se asegura el éxito de las actividades ejecutadas.

- La iluminación a los árboles plantados es vital.

- Es importante divulgar las buenas experiencias para que sean replicadas.

- Es muy importante involucrar al propietario de la finca en las actividades porque él es quien va a continuar con el seguimiento del trabajo.

- La restauración es un proceso lento y de paciencia.

Monitoring

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local