Bosque La Tigra owns 46 hectares of primary and secondary forests, as well as regeneration areas, as relicts of what used to be passion fruit plantations. Bosque La Tigra adjoins the Children Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica’s biggest private reserve, with 23.000 hectares. For the Project, this location is a strategic element of the reserve work.

Bosque La Tigra has intended to foster the ecological connectivity of both reserves by conserving the forest and also, by actively restoring the regeneration areas of the reserve with native trees. For this purpose, the project designed a reforestation sequence for the regeneration areas. Eventually, the area will enter into an ecological succession process and foster ecological connectivity with the Children Eternal Rainforest.

At least 40 different species of native trees and bushes have been identified to plant in the regeneration areas. The Project has established a tree nursery that reproduces trees and seedlings from the same primary and secondary forests of the reserve and has a capacity for 700 seedlings and plants.

Between 2017 and 2020, a total of 4500 trees were planted. Every reforestation effort is supported by the voluntary work of students, companies’ employees, national and international tourists, and Bosque La Tigra staff.

In cooperation with Tsinghua University, Huangshan has developed a monitoring system covering various evaluation indicators of the three designations, issued monitoring reports every year, analyzed the work of the whole mountain and guided the future work plan.

We have improved our display and education system to make employees, communities and school students better understand the values and connections of UNESCO designations. We have launched various forms of educational activities, used our Wechat official account, geopark museum, interpretation boards, promotional materials and website to demonstrate the different values of Huangshan. 30 sessions of Huangshan Nature Lecture were held. 20 education articles about integrated management were published on Wechat account. Our English website and 40 interpretation boards were updated to include content about integrated management.

We’ve done two things for this part. The first is to research the relevance in value and protection objectives of the 3 UNESCO designations. In order to formulate the integrated management plan, 3 interdisciplinary studies were carried out, and 2 papers with Science Citation Index and 3 reports were published. The correlation between World Heritage and Global Geoparks is studied in order to formulate integrated management strategies.

Secondly, on the basis of value identification, we made a management plan and strategy. Considering that the objectives and evaluation criteria of these three designations guide our work to a great extent, in cooperation with China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), we have studied the relationship and difference between World Heritage and Global Geopark, integrated the indicators of the three designations, and clarified their similarities and differences, so as to facilitate the division of labor and cooperation between offices. At present, two relevant reports have been issued.

Good governance is the basis for follow-up work. In order to realize the integrated management of the three designations, we firstly need appropriate staff and working mechanism. To this end, we have formulated the Working Mechanism for Integration of the 3 UNESCO Designations of Huangshan (for trial implementation), which stipulates regular discussions among personnel responsible for each designation to seek common ground, while setting differences aside and sharing specific information relevant to each designation.

It enables us to collect all the resources of different departments and concentrate on completing common work.

The holistic approach to rangeland degradation includes recommendations for land and resource tenure arrangements and institutional models that enhance land management and reduce land degradation. For example, it tells you when and where to use sustainable rangeland management (SRM) practices. Thus, it may help the guidance on livestock policy, technology and investment priorities for programs but also development agencies, decision-makers, and other international organizations.

The main objective of this toolkit is to enhance rangeland ecosystems services and pastoralists wellbeing through sharing, enhancing, and using knowledge on SRM practices. For any site, a combination of proven technologies is made available with a goal to implement a cost-effective restoration that is holistic and scalable. Furthermore, this toolkit aims to minimize investment failures by providing detailed information about commonly used practices.

• After coaching from Blue Ventures, association leaders from each village organized a meeting to discuss and identify the management strategy and the management measures based on the results of the assessment and the perceptions of the community.

• The meeting, chaired by associations and/or village leaders, is conducted under non-exclusive conditions and is attended by all fishers, women and men. First, the participants propose measures to be taken which are then voted on by a show of hands if there are many divergent ideas. It may happen fishers will postpone the meeting to reflect and discuss the decisions to be taken within their clan or family.

• In the presence of the fisheries administration, representatives of the Dina Committee, the Management Committee and the community-based patrollers, the local community validated the strategy and particularly the measures.

• In the future, these measures could be adapted based on the result of the implementation and participatory monitoring of landings.