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Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda

These corridor forests are disappearing quickly and if these findings are not acted upon soon there will be little corridor forest left to conserve and most of these species will become extinct in this region. There is a need for the Ministry of Water, Energy and the Environment, the District Environmental offices and the National Forest Authority to move ahead quickly with providing economic and financial incentives to enable these corridor forests to receive funding as soon as they can to offset the current incentives to destroy the forest for agriculture.

Presence of Kihaimira Central Forest Reserve as core area
Local support for chimpanzee conservation
Great Potential for agro-ecotourism
Great potential for nature based enterprises eg. bee keeping
Conducive government policies

A corridor forests east of Lake Albert are rich in biodiversity, they contain many of the species that may require connectivity to remain viable in the larger forest blocks, and they are likely to be playing a functional role in terms of connecting meta-populations of these species. There is a need to find incentives for land owners who have forest on their land in the corridors to conserve these forests in order to maintain these functional roles.

Planning phase

Establishement of Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy for conservation and protection of wildlife migratory routes in northern Albertine rift forests, western Uganda

Engagement of 500 private forest owners to set aside 6000 hectares for conservation of chimpanzee corridors

Local support for chimpanzee conservation
Great Potential for agro-ecotourism
Great potential for nature based enterprises eg. bee keeping
Conducive government policies

These corridor forests are disappearing quickly, however, and if these findings are not acted upon soon there will be little corridor forest left to conserve and most of these species will become extinct in this region. There is for Kayirabwa Chimpanzee Conservancy to provide economic incentives to land owners to enable these corridor forests to offset the current incentives to destroy the forest for agriculture.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Monitoring

Programa desarrollado por la Alianza con la Autoridad de Turismo de Panamá

Strategic Alliances

Transformative Experience

Geoversity is conceived as an ecosystem of individuals and organizations collaborating in the creation of biocultural leadership.

The ecosystem is nurtured by real places and conservation communities starting with the Mamoni Valley Reserve.

With the solution we highlight the importance of alliances and collaborations to achieve long-term success in forest conservation and preservation. Dialogue, community participation and the participation of the different actors play a very important role in the realization of the objectives and results.

We carry out and participate in local and international activities with the objective of finding potential candidates to become part of the ecosystem. Once they are part of the ecosystem, responsibilities and commitments are established, which generally turn into program funding, recommendations or probono professional services.

The solution is characterized by its innovation in processes and strategies, we currently use 7Vortex for strategy planning.
The immersions in nature that we give to our strategic partners help us to show our conservation actions and how nature can be an ally in sustainable business.
We have a group of strategic allies from multiple disciplines that collaborate with us in different activities and programs.
The digital mapping of the reserve is done with our strategic partner Redlands University.

The collaboration or alliance with the Ministry of Environment helps us to maximize the achievement of our objectives, which is why we work together on the Non-Carbon Benefits program typified in the Paris Agreement.
The more actors involved in the solution, the easier it is to achieve the objectives and results.
Working with international organizations such as Euroclima+, Expertise France and Forests of the World gives recognition and credibility to the solution.

Transformative Journey

Leadership and Research Management

Rana

Feline

Anoli

Fauna

Butterflies

This management has two components:

The Leadership component: aimed at young emerging leaders with a desire to be active agents in the creation of sustainable communities.
The research component: aimed at scientists and students who wish to use the Mamoní Valley Reserve as a living laboratory for their scientific research.
The leadership component works with calls for young people to participate in the different programs that we develop both in the reserve and in urban forests, and the research component works with collaboration agreements with universities and scientific institutions.

Favorable factors of this BB:

Collaboration agreements with: Biomundi (species study), Kaminando (feline studies) and we allow STRI to conduct harlequin frog re-introduction studies.
We have the dual "LifeChanger" program of nature immersion but also leadership.
We have a land area of 5,000 ha and the annual increase in forest cover is 0.5%.
In 2020 we are launching the Biocultural Leadership School, an initiative that seeks to train young environmental leaders.

The importance of allowing researchers, students and scientists to carry out their studies in the Mamoní Valley Reserve has an impact not only for them but also for the country and the world. For example, if the Smithsonian Tropical Institute discovers the reason why the fungus affects frogs in one geographic area and not in others, it could be decisive in saving a species.
Achieving this combination of youth and mentor is a management strategy that contributes to create that critical mass to form young emerging leaders and protectors of the environment. At the beginning of the solution, a lot of manpower was required to build the structures of what would become the Mamoní Center, collaborators, volunteers and the executive team worked shoulder to shoulder.
Creating a center or a conserved area is hard work that requires a lot of commitment and collective work, but harvesting achievements is an incomparable satisfaction.
When thinking about acquiring land for conservation you should keep a low profile so that it is not misinterpreted as land grabbing.

Convenio de Colaboración

Birds Survey

Mamoni Valley Preserve Natural History Project

Conservation Management

La Zahina Waterfall

Walk

Butterfly

Toucan

This solution combines several actions:

Preservation and conservation in an integral manner the biota and other natural attributes existing in the Mamoní Valley Reserve, without direct human interference or environmental modifications.
Recovery of altered ecosystems and the necessary management actions to recover and preserve the natural balance, biological diversity and ecological processes.
Protection and monitoring of the area using SMART equipment, GPS and drones with the help of strategic allies.
Collective work is a fundamental principle in this solution since we depend on all the actors to achieve the objectives. Due to this support work we have been able to map the forest cover of the reserve and detect deforestation.

We protect 5,000 hectares of biodiverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The solution is contributing to sequestering 650,000 tons of carbon.
The roots of the trees we conserve and protect prevent landslides.
The solution protects the headwaters of the Mamoní River, Chepo's main tributary.
The solution ensures the protection of the biodiversity of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena ecoregion.
The reserve has 14 species of felines (melanistic jaguar), tapir, and the king gallinule, among others, some of which are endangered species.

The good relationship we maintain with the environmental authorities in Panama has given us recognition as a conservation organization and for two consecutive years we have received the Environmental Excellence Awards.
The organization's committed work team has allowed us to achieve many accomplishments both locally and internationally.
Having strategic allies that since 1990 have been helping the organization both financially and professionally has contributed to the development of many of our conservation initiatives and leadership programs.
Environmental education in the communities is crucial as it will allow them to understand the value of forest conservation, develop the link with Mother Earth and perform sustainable actions with the environment.

Building Blocks de Geoversity

Sustainable livelihoods

Mbya Guaraní Yerba Mate

Cindy Galeano

The shade-grown yerba mate model generates profitable economic income from the added value of recovering forests while maintaining traditional organic customs and practices around yerba mate. Ancestral Guarani techniques are combined with modern low-impact agroecological management techniques for yerba mate production. The market for organic yerba mate continues to grow annually as a nutritious foodstuff and international markets are in high demand.

There is a culture related to the management of yerba mate in the area; rural communities were already cultivating under the traditional model.

The private yerba mate sector is concentrated in the area where the solution will be implemented, which allows for the establishment of alliances with the national yerba mate association.

There is a commitment from local governments to support the development of the model, as it is a local industry.

For yerba mate production to be successful, it must be combined with other crops that currently contribute to the livelihoods of local people in a diversified organic farm model.

The producers are in the process of forming an Association after 5 years of starting the initiative. Accompaniment and training should be planned over a period of several years to empower and organize rural and indigenous producers to govern the value chain.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Monitoring

Forest Landscape Sustainability Accelerator

Regenerative Agriculture

Yerba mate woman

Cindy Galeano

The production of yerba mate under shade is a model in which yerba mate - Ilex paraguariensis - is grown in degraded or totally deforested areas of the Atlantic Forest, during the production cycle it is enriched with other native tree species to generate shade and the ground cover is preserved with biomass, it is replicable in the Atlantic Forest region.Indigenous Mbya Guaraní communities have ancestrally managed yerba mate without greatly disturbing the forest, and this model combines ancestral techniques with modern agroecology.

Yerba mate is traditionally produced extensively, without forest cover and with the use of chemicals that degrade soils. As it is a native species of the Atlantic Forest, its organic production in degraded forests favors the resistance of the species, the quality of the plant, the enrichment with native forest species and makes it possible to rescue and implement ancestral techniques of yerba mate production with a minimum impact on the native forest.

1. Since this is an innovative production model that combines traditional and ancestral yerba mate management techniques, a period of years of technical support is required to install the model and empower producers to continue with the production model.

2. The model should not be implemented in forests in a good state of conservation; it should be expanded in areas with a high degradation index within the Atlantic Forest ecoregion, since the production system seeks to gain areas of organic and agroecological production while recovering forest cover.

2. Climatic conditions are a determining factor for obtaining inputs such as seedlings, seeds and others.

Forest Landscape Sustainability Accelerator

Incorporation of Forest Management into Coffee Cultivation

Methodological Steps Silvocafé

GIZ

Step 1. Extraction of mature trees

GIZ

Step 2 and 3. Replant damaged coffee plants and incorporate HCV trees.

GIZ

Step 4. Plan thinnings for shade management

GIZ

Silvocafe is a restoration technique that seeks to make wood production viable in coffee plantations, through the incorporation and management of a density of trees -AVC- as "shade trees". The steps to execute it are:

Extraction of mature trees: with a census and georeferencing of trees with DBH>10 cm, an extraction is carried out using the following criteria: frequency per hectare, phytosanitary condition, tree shape, density by species of interest and distribution.
Replant damaged coffee plants and incorporate HCV trees: each extracted tree affects approximately 20 coffee plants, that is, 500 to 700 plants/ha, which means a replanting of plants/ha of 10%-15% after each intervention.
Establish an adequate shade density of trees of high commercial value: this requires a stock of between 40 to 60 HCV trees/ha; with a recommended spacing of 12x14 m.
Plan thinning for shade improvement: Higher shade density (50-70% cover, 50-30% light) is justified when the crop site has high ambient and soil temperatures, low ambient and soil relative humidity, greater exposure to sunlight, poor soil fertility and low altitude above sea level.

It is preferable to apply it in prime-extra-prime coffee plantations (0-1000 masl); since in hard-semiduro (1000-1400 masl) and strictly hard coffee (+14000 masl), due to their level of production qq gold/ha and their differentiated prices reached in the market, the adoption of this technique may not be attractive.

It is important to select the species of trees of high commercial value to be selected as shade trees for coffee, their own genotypic and phenotypic conditions, the market interest in the species and, most importantly, their interaction with the crop, since economic yields will depend on this decision.

Tomo I Manual de Criterios y Parámetros PROBOSQUE

Tomo II Formatos de Planes de Manejo Forestal PROBOSQUE

Incorporating Good Practice Producers into a Value Chain

The objective of this building block is to provide continuity to the good practices implemented by livestock producers by incorporating them into value chains that value products from sustainable sources.

This can be achieved through the analysis of value chains that are linked to the sector in which the producer operates. In this case, a dairy value chain was linked, since this is where the greatest added value can be obtained for both the livestock producer and the Coopepuriscal R.L. Cooperative.

Another important aspect is to determine where the producer is in the chain (micro, meso or macro) and what type of activity he/she carries out (primary or support). In this case, the producer is at the micro level with a primary activity (delivering raw materials without much value added).

Find trading partners who are interested in quality products that demonstrate that they are environmentally friendly and have been produced with sustainable practices.
Trading partners are willing to improve the quality of their supply chain with local producers.

Preferably there should be an organizational structure (cooperative, association, etc.) that will reduce transaction and intermediation costs for producers and allow them to receive better income.
Agreements with commercial partners should incorporate, as far as possible, a stable demand for raw material, which will encourage livestock producers to invest in improving their production system.