Community Conservation

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Community Conservation

• Krisi Heller
• Josh Stecker
• Zach Martin

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Protected Areas OutreachArabuko Sokoke Forest

• Largest remaining portion
• Of East African Dry Coastal
• Forest
• Local people, Giriama,
• rely on forest for fuel, food, medicine,
• and income from additional products
• Forest resources are being
• over-exploited due to growing
• population, ignorance of more sustainable
  methods, and
• deteriorating soil fertility

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Arabuko-Sosoke Forest Conservation Community
Project

• Supported by institutions such as Kenya Wildlife
  Service, Forest Department, Kenya Forest Research
  Institute, Community Development Trust Fund, IUCN
• Aims to promote expand and diversify
  sustainable use of forest resources to benefit
  the forests and communities ecologically and
  economically
• Aims to increase the value of the forest as an
  eco-tourism destination to provide further
  economic development and funds for projects

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Outcomes

• The program has positively changed local attitude
  towards conservation
• Establishment of the idea of sustainability as
  the path to present and future successful use of
  resources.
• Most importantly Provincial administration has
  recognized the shift and has lent support to
  community conservation initiatives

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Co-ManagementManas Biosphere Reserve

• Located In Assam, India
• Major concern has involved the golden langur, an
  endangered primate species located only in Assam
  and the Bhutan
• A variety of NGOs such as Aaranyak of Guwahati,
  Green Forest Conservation of Kachugaon, Green
  Heart Nature Club of Kokrajhar work to protect
  the langur in different sectors while working
  with the villages of those areas

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• Political upheaval between Bodo Tribal Groups
  more recent immigrants to the area have led to
  violence and illegal logging within the reserve
• Militant Tribal Groups, seeking autonomy from the
  Indian Government, have prevented the Assam
  Forest Department from enforcing logging
  practices, through kidnappings and murder

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• NGOs have had to step in to empower the local
  people and help the local governments to put an
  end to the economic and political tensions
  spurred in this area
• This has led local villages to replant, protect,
  and sustain forest adjacent to their communities,
  keeping woodcutters out, even putting up signs to
  declare ownership, and contacting the Assam
  Forest Department when troublemakers are spotted

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• NGOs have also helped create Self Help Groups to
  stifle economic dependency, helping to create
  within the local communities, small enterprises
  centered around fish, chicken, goats, crops such
  as bananas, etc.
• In turn, this helps local people to take
  initiative in creating their own fruitful
  economy, stabilize the government, and work
  towards more sustainable forestry practices

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DevolutionCockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary

• Jaguar preserve in Belize
• Concern was first raised in two places
• Ignacio Pop, citrus farmer
• Archie Carr III, assistant director of the
  International Division of the New York Zoological
  Society

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• Study of the jaguar population was commissioned
• Dr. Alan Rabinowitz
• 1982-1984
• Found the highest density of jaguars ever recorded

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• Initially the area was declared a forest reserve
  and a No Hunting Zone
• On February 26, 1986 part of the area was made
  into a wildlife sanctuary
• Ignacio Pop and his son were the first wardens
  and still work there today
• Became the worlds first jaguar preserve

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• Run by the Belize Audubon Society
• Visitors center
• Swimming area
• over 250,000 acres
• Network of trails to observe the natural area
• Tours available

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Works Cited

• http//ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/parkcockscomb.
  html
• http//www.belizeaudubon.org/protected_areas/cocks
  comb-basin-wildlife-sanctuary.html
• http//www.communityconservation.org/Assam.htm
• http//adventures.worldnomads.com/destination/110/
  itinerary/279/Kenya/Footsteps-across-the-Landscape
  .aspx
• http//cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/arabuko_sokoke.p
  df