Subnational | 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

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Partnerships

AREECA project officials and government interacting with Gomeza Community and pupils at Gomeza Primary School, Ntcheu, Central Malawipartners

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Although Gomeza Community used Self-drive to restore the forest reserve, the community attracted attention from government and non-governmental organisations. The partnerships led to provision of technical capacity building to the community on sivicultural aspects. Other insitutions also supported the community in their vision. This led to reduced resource need per institution to work with the community.

Accommodating
Cooperation
Joint planning

Prevent the duplication of efforts by close cooperation and joint planning

Building trust and improved networking are key elements of starting partnerships

Community Self-drive

The communities realised that they need to take actionin order achieve their dreams and support their ecosystem to retain its functions. They set up social structures and identified responsibilities in the form of positions and work plans. The community use volunteerism to carry out their duties nd drive the restoration efforts. They also formed their own by-laws to manage the Gomeza forest reserve, thereby adding not only social but also a regulatory framework set up to serve their needs.

Individual willingness
Working by-laws
Supportive local leadership (Traditional authority support)
Volunteering

Less financial inputs were needed to achieve great impacts

Community leading on conservation while government and other insitutions follow work well

Community-led initiatives more sustainable than a top-down approach

Implementation

Local

Subnational

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.

Signage and infrastructure for roadkill prevention

The placement of signage and preventive infrastructure on the roads with the highest rates of traffic accidents is an attempt to provide long-term solutions to the problem.

Review of specialized bibliography and exchange with other experiences for the establishment of prevention measures in accordance with the local reality.
Coordination with the institutions responsible for roads and land transportation in the country to become involved in the implementation of medium and long-term solutions.

The work should be coordinated between the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition and the National Transit Agency to collect and manage field information.
As more people become involved and understand the value of wild species and the impact they have on the functioning of ecosystems, more "social" pressure can be exerted to influence decision-makers.

Inception phase

Subnational

Environmental Communication, Education and Participation

Disseminating information about monitoring experiences within protected areas to the population helps to reduce the loss of native species and involve more people in the application of prevention measures.

Processing of the information collected and preparation of pedagogically adapted informative material to improve understanding of the problem of wildlife roadkill.
Ongoing updating of information to involve young students and drivers in the search for practical solutions.

It is important to involve the communities in the project, since there is currently a trend towards the use of citizen science, which is nothing more than the generation of new knowledge with the active and essential participation of citizens in at least one stage of the research process,
Environmental education is not only about communicating or informing, it seeks in essence a participatory response, and in this specific case, it would be the collection of information, which will help to strengthen the databases that are managed, obtaining results that are closer to reality.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Subnational

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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

Holding activities to build capability and improve awareness

The ABS project has been widely promoted throughout Guangxi, with about 50 promotional activities, 20 training sessions and related meetings, and more than 10,000 participants online and offline, to help with Guangxi ABS legislation and benefit-sharing.

These activities not only enhance the capacity building of relevant personnel, but also raise public awareness of biodiversity conservation and benefit-sharing.

Public awareness of - and public support for - program activities ensures success.

Planning phase

Inception phase

Implementation

Documentation and dissemination of results

Local

Subnational

National