In order to address urgent HEC incidences, a Rapid Response Unit (RRU) has been established. The need for the RRU was justified due to the increasing pressure from district authorities, who do not have the capacity to mitigate HEC incidences. Consequently, higher levels of government are put under pressure to protect people and livelihoods, often resorting to lethal management of elephants. To avoid these lethal interventions, the role of the RRU is to (1) respond to HEC situations with near-immediate effect, (2) educate community members on how to behave around elephants and deploy HEC toolboxes more effectively, (3) systematically collect data on crop raiding incidences, mitigation methods deployed and elephant responses in order for us to develop an effective early warning system, and (4) disrupt elephant crop-raiding strategies through surprise intervention planning to ultimately contribute towards behavioural modification. The RRU is supported by the GPS collaring data when (1) identifying key human elephant conflict hotspots and (2) building crop raiding probability maps for the strategic deployment of long-term mitigation methods.

Starting from the knowledge that over 50% of elephant movements are outside of Protected Areas (PAs) and over 75% of elephant populations are transboundary, we used a satellite tracking approach to identify which wildlife corridors are most used by elephants.

While our initial plan was to establish a corridor between Gonarezhou (high elephant density) in Zimbabwe with Banhine and/or Zinave National Parks (low elephant density) in Mozambique, insufficient tracking data and reports linking the PAs in these countries (Zimbabwe to Mozambique) to define a conclusive corridor has made us shift our geographical location to Namaacha Valley in southern Mozambique. Here several elephants that we had collared outside of PAs in the hope to find more corridor moving individuals between PAs across southern Mozambique, have defined a vital corridor covering the southern extreme of the KNP, south towards Tembe National Park in South Africa and east towards the Futi corridor and MSR on the coast of Mozambique.

The collaring of elephants and analysis of the tracking data have shown us that existing PAs are too small for elephants. Using elephants as the landscape planners for connectivity across national boundaries, enabled us to identify human-elephant conflict hotspots where efforts are most likely to have the largest impact.

In order to make visible and recognize the performance of good fishing practices and compliance with the Use Agreement between the community of Tumaradó and PNN Los Katíos, the Bocachico Festival was created, which in 2023 completes its XVI version. This is a traditional celebration that takes place in the community to promote the proper use of hydrobiological resources, especially bocachico; it is also carried out as an education and communication strategy aimed at organizational strengthening and lines of culture and governance.

This two-day event includes a variety of activities and contests for the whole community around the hydrobiological resource, such as catching the biggest fish, gastronomic dishes, the person who eats the most bocachico, canoeing, swimming, painting, trovas, weaving the net, fixing the fish, interviews with fishermen, among others. In 2020, diplomas were awarded to artisanal fishermen to honor their good work within the framework of the agreement.

The participation of women, youth and children from Tumaradó in different activities related to fishery resource monitoring is clear and marked. Some women are in charge of handling and arranging the fish and are involved in commercialization and value-added activities such as cleaning and gutting the fish. Some women have been involved in monitoring because of their participation in fish cleaning activities. They also play a leading role in gastronomy, participate in meetings, workshops and environmental education activities, support the implementation and logistics of cultural events, and support their husbands and fathers in carrying out their activities.

Generally, there are two women from the community on the team, and others are involved in the different activities, for example, as collectors of fishing information and facilitators of the agreement: accompanying fishing operations to verify compliance with the provisions of the agreement.

For their part, the children support the landing of hydrobiological resources, in addition to accompanying their parents to throw the nets during fishing operations, and participate in workshops and different spaces for socialization of the monitoring results, allowing the generation of knowledge and wisdom.

Within the framework of the use and management agreement, the fishermen of the Tumaradó area provide information on the species caught, the type of gear used, the expenses incurred in the process, the weight and size of the species caught, the site of capture, the total and effective time per fishing operation, the state of sexual maturity, the state of each organism (whole, eviscerated), the type of boat and propulsion, as well as the number of fishermen, for 15 days a month; In addition, two follow-up visits to the agreements and two monthly monitoring visits to the fishing operations are carried out.These activities are carried out in order to know the status of the fishery resource and thus be able to make decisions on its management.

The works were carried out progressively: 3 phases spread over 3 years to achieve the desired structure and respect the ecological dynamics of the site, given that the stations are different according to altitude.

The landscape treatment project was the subject of consultation between all the site's stakeholders: the DREAL inspector of the classified site (classified as a landscape under the 1930 law), the RNR-FE curator, the Natura 2000 site coordinator, the commune owning the forest concerned, and the Enedis representatives in charge of maintaining the line and its right-of-way.

The study was submitted to the RNR-FE management committee for approval, and then to the departmental commission for nature, landscapes and sites.

The starting point for the solution: a preliminary study of the landscape component and the black spot was carried out, focusing in particular on all the contrasts with the environment that the power line could create.

En complemento al TDC, cumpliendo los Lineamientos de Sostenibilidad Financiera con apoyo de ANECAP y DRIS se apalancó proyectos de: fondos climáticos, cooperación Internacional, fondos concursables y alianzas con privados. Se inició con la promoción de la cadena de valor sostenible de cacao.

Con el liderazgo de la cogestión SERNANP-ECA AMARCY, se ha construido una estrategia integral de vigilancia de la RCY, su zona de amortiguamiento y su paisaje asociado, elaborando herramientas unificadas en coordinación con todas las instituciones responsables y promotoras de la vigilancia comunal.