Comprehensive life-cycle breeding program (Ex-Situ Conservation)

A comprehensive artificial breeding program was established over four years, producing 10,000 fish annually for conservation and reintroduction. Challenges included low genetic diversity and habitat-specific requirements.

  • A gene bank was established based on the concept of Noah’s Ark, aimed at increasing the population of the Formosan landlocked salmon through artificial breeding.
  • In 2000, the Formosan Landlocked Salmon Conservation Symposium was held, where a comprehensive conservation framework was developed. The goal was to gradually restore the five historical streams in the upper Dajia River, where the salmon originally thrived, within 30 years. A dual strategy of in-situ (on-site) and ex-situ (off-site) conservation was adopted.
  • Purely artificial breeding methods can reduce genetic diversity, so it is essential to establish a complete and sustainable breeding program.
  • There is limited experience in reintroducing endangered species, making it crucial to understand the life history and habitat requirements of the Formosan landlocked salmon. 
The Establishment of Shei-Pa National Park in 1992

Shei-Pa National Park has included the Qijiawan River catchment in its protected area, with conservation plans focusing on habitat preservation and breeding programs.

  • The Formosan landlocked salmon, discovered in 1917, is a unique species that is considered a "glacial relict." It is found exclusively in the high-altitude streams of central Taiwan, marking the southernmost and highest-altitude wild distribution of any salmon species in the world. This species is regarded as a natural monument and an iconic national treasure.
  • By 1984, the Formosan landlocked salmon was nearly extinct, with 90% of its historic range across five streams reduced, leaving only about 200 individuals.
  • In 1989, the Wildlife Conservation Act was enacted, listing the Formosan landlocked salmon as an endangered species (EN), signaling the urgent need for conservation.
  • During Taiwan's economic miracle in the 1960s to 1980s, human development spread to the mountains, leading to overfishing, water pollution, and habitat destruction. To conserve the Formosan landlocked salmon, the Wildlife Conservation Act was enacted, and Shei-Pa National Park was established to strengthen protection efforts.
Committee establishment, formalization and operationalization

Inclusive and participatory mapping of all stakeholders in the mangrove space in the five counties of Kwale, Mombasa, Kilifi, Tana River and Lamu. A series of meetings for sensitization on the National Mangrove Management Plan, and later facilitated formation of the national and five county committees. The committees were then facilitated in developing their workplans and executing some of the activities. This has since been picked up. 

Partnership and collaboration.

Inclusive processes

Willingness and trust amongst partners 

Participants and facilitator

Before the game can be played, the facilitator must be trained, and the participants selected.

The choice of a game facilitator should fall on someone knowledgeable about land use issues and who knows the social background, culture, language and customs of the local communities, as this expertise is crucial for leading the final debate. To prepare the facilitator, a good approach is to have them play the game once, along with other future facilitators. The goal of this first trial is not only to train them, but also to adjust the game rules to the local context. The game functions better when tailored to the local context. After the trial, a debriefing should be conducted to assess what worked well, what didn’t, and to determine what events or tokens could be created to best represent the region where the game will be played.

To select the participants, the organizers can work with the village chiefs, who will help identify and mobilize the various groups affected by the land use issue to participate in the game. They also can assist in selecting an appropriate location for the game to take place.

Participants should come from diverse groups, including young people, women, farmers, breeders, and others. During the game, it may be beneficial to sometimes keep these groups together and at other times mix them, in order to foster different dynamics and debates.

-knowledge of the facilitator in land use planning, social issues, ecological dynamics and ecosystem services

-interest of the participants to cooperate with other stakeholders

-mutual trust between participants and with the facilitator

-contact should be made with the village chief

-open atmosphere

-To reach the participants, a good way would be to get in contact with the village chief. 

- Having facilitators that belong to the same culture of participants and talk the same language is very helpful to create an open and safe environment.

- During training phase, don’t plan or add too many process, elements and rules to the game to reflect the local context, elements will arise more naturally while playing if the game remain enough flexible.

Stakeholder Collaboration Portal

The database fosters collaboration by providing accessible tools for policymakers, law enforcement, researchers, and NGOs. This collaborative model could be replicated to facilitate cross-sector cooperation in combating global challenges such as climate change or poverty.

Policy Evaluation Framework

The platform is designed to assess the effectiveness of laws and enforcement efforts, such as the Endangered Species Act and Lacey Act. This framework can be applied to evaluate policy impacts in other regulatory areas, like labor laws or international trade compliance.

 

use AI

To preserve natural resources, artificial intelligence must be introduced to preserve them, and automation must be used to preserve environmental diversity by linking to the use of the Internet today, which is everywhere, controlling it, and following up. It was made into a real reserve and controlled using connected surveillance cameras. Transporting animals to a safe environment protected by surveillance cameras to reduce poaching.

Module 1: Monitoring Coordination and Technology Integration

Effective monitoring relies on the establishment of specialized teams with clear roles and close coordination. This project established dedicated drone monitoring teams to meet the “one herd, one strategy” requirement based on the distribution of Asian elephants. Additionally, village-level monitoring teams were formed in elephant-distribution townships. The drone teams focus on accurately collecting real-time elephant activity data, while the village monitoring teams provide reliable on-the-ground information. This dual approach of “tracking elephants in real-time” and “localized monitoring” ensures efficient coordination and precision. Together, these efforts enable drone monitoring to cover over 95% of the Asian elephant population (the remaining 5% resides within protected areas).
In areas where drone flights are challenging, infrared cameras are deployed to provide around-the-clock monitoring. The integration of aerial and ground-based technologies creates a highly efficient and precise monitoring and early warning system, overcoming challenges related to nighttime and forested area monitoring.

  1. The high demand for monitoring and early warning in elephant-affected regions increased the willingness of individuals to join monitoring teams.
  2. The suitability of drones and infrared cameras for monitoring large terrestrial animals, combined with features like thermal imaging, automatic triggers, and wireless data transmission, made it feasible to track the nocturnal activity patterns of Asian elephants and ensure real-time transmission and automated recognition.
  1. Thermal imaging is highly effective for nighttime monitoring, but regular maintenance of equipment is essential to ensure performance under extreme weather conditions.
  2. Infrared camera deployment locations must be optimized to ensure stable network coverage and reliable data transmission.
Renewable energy technologies for human wildlife coexistence and food security

We include renewable energy technologies such us solar panels  to power electic fences, improve livestoc water availability and sensored lights to mitigate economical loses in livestoc farms caused by predation over domestic animales, at the same time, we help rural farmer families to access electricity serveces and improve their food productivity, economicla and food founts

Funding availability
Landowners willingness to include new technologies in their agricultural system

 

We have implementing replicable technological strategies to mitigate economical losses by wild felids predation reaching a reduction of the 100% of attacks from cougar and jaguar over cattle in the Cerro El Inglés Communitary reserve, protecting vulnerable individuals by solar powered electric fences and motion-sensor lights and limiting the access of domestic animals to the forest by technifying water provision for livestock and solar powered electric fences. Having a demonstrative and replicable system used for education purposes with farmers from the region.

Coservation culture

Our efforts are focused on developing a conservation culture in local communities by highlighting local biodiversity in local art expressions, educational programs, institutional alliances, local social movements engagement and scientific research.

 Engagement capacity, Funding availability, inclusion, 

 

 

We have been able to support the establishment of local community based social collectives as the Águilas Crestadas ecological young people group and the Farmer women network, who have become key collegates to promote conservation in the region.
We have also promoted inter institutional alliances that have enabled young people from the study area to access educational opportunities around nature conservation, agroecology and nature-based tourism.