Southeast Asian Reptile Conservation Alliance
SARCA is an industry-led initiative aimed at advancing responsible and transparent Southeast Asian reptile skin supply chains while driving improvements to the trade’s operating environment.
SARCA is an industry-led initiative aimed at advancing responsible and transparent Southeast Asian reptile skin supply chains while driving improvements to the trade’s operating environment.
We have developed a manual which can help smallholder women farmers replicate the solutions in the South West of Nigeria. At the national level, collaborating with policy makers to include indigenous food plants as key components of in the School feeding programs as well as the Anchor borrowers programme for micro-credits. Our Seed bank Open day programmes provide avenues for exchange and display of seed diversity as well as a model for local seed bank scale up to a national project for the conservation of a larger number of wild crop relatives in Nigeria. We are currently advocating at the National legislature to provide legislative laws on the inclusion of Indigenous food plants to the Nigerian Food policy programme. These initiatives when pulled together will contribute significantly to indigenous Plant Species Conservation.
With limited access to land, women are still custodians of Biodiversity with Knowledge to bolster food security. 65% of the participating community members were women. 53% ages 40-65, 47% ages 18-39. Women participation was supported by their husbands. This saw more women take decision on dietary requirements for their families and strong participatory roles in management and benefits sharing.
Households created small/medium-sized enterprises for steady economic growth which put less pressure to their surrounding forest. As a result of less pressure on the forest for livelihood, new revenue streams are up and running. Local base ecosystems have facilitated growth not only within the Forest Community but beyond, creating opportunities for decent work. Achieving social inclusion was to emphasize “local ownership”. Setting up spaces for dialogue that allowed for the active and inclusive participation of local people ensured that priorities were determined locally and that local concerns were at the core of all activities.
Plus de la moitié de la population mondiale vit en ville, ce qui génère de nombreux problèmes environnementaux et sociaux : pollution, perte de la biodiversité, faible sécurité alimentaire, etc. Notre solution consiste à planter des forêts comestibles en ville. La forêt comestible imite l’écosystème naturel d’une véritable forêt, tout en ayant l’objectif de produire de la nourriture. Nous nous sommes inspirés du modèle de Seattle Beacon Food Forest pour introduire la première forêt comestible publique de Taiwan dans la ville de Hsinchu, en coopération avec la municipalité et les gens du quartier concerné. Des “Work Party” et des ateliers pédagogiques sont régulièrement organisés pour encourager la participation citoyenne. Cette solution apporte une nourriture saine accessible à tous, une opportunité d’apprentissage holistique, et elle permet aussi de cultiver les vertus du partage. Vivre dans un écosystème urbain qui prend à la fois soin de l’homme et de la terre, c’est possible !
Répondre à la demande croissante en bois-énergie est un défi et un facteur de déforestation et de dégradation des forêts. La Restauration des Paysages Forestiers (RPF) et les engagements des pays envers l’AFR100 s’adressent ainsi à la production durable de bois-énergie afin de répondre aux réalités sociales et économiques.
La chaîne de valeur bois-énergie, en s’adressant à toutes les parties prenantes, encourage les petits entrepreneurs. L’approche combine des éléments juridiques, de gouvernance, économiques et techniques depuis les transferts des titres fonciers et des plans de reforestation individuels sur des terres dégradées au niveau villageois jusqu’à la récolte, traitement, transformation, distribution et commercialisation par les consommateurs finaux de bois-énergie ainsi que les technologies de combustion associées (foyers améliorés).
Elle modernise la chaîne de valeur du bois-énergie et génère des bénéfices pour les intervenants. Leurs revenus annuels ont doublé en moyenne.
Para reducir la vulnerabilidad al cambio climático de las comunidades en el paisaje de la Reserva de la Biosfera del Volcán de Tacaná, se implementaron medidas de EbA con dos comunidades: La Azteca y Alpujarras. Las comunidades se organizan como ejidos, que es una estructura de tenencia de la tierra en México.
La solución tuvo como objetivo mejorar la resiliencia tanto del bosque nuboso como de la producción agroforestal de café para enfrentar tormentas y lluvias intensas que causan erosión, deslizamientos de tierra y pérdidas de vidas, impactos en fuentes de agua y producción agrícola.
A mediano plazo, esta combinación de medidas mejorará la captación de agua, reducirá la erosión hídrica y se obtendrán productos adicionales para consumo familiar. Además, se tomaron acciones a través de fondos estatales, federales y de proyectos para asegurar la sostenibilidad en el mediano plazo.
The Atlantic Forest is considered one of the most biodiverse tropical forests on the planet (biodiversity hotspot), the second largest in South America and the first Important Bird Area (IBA) of Paraguay with high endemism of birds and endangered species. Currently the development of extensive agriculture and urbanization has reduced its original coverage to less than 7% of the area in Paraguay. San Rafael has been widely recognized as the main conservation priority of the Atlantic Forest in Paraguay. The solution for its long-term conservation and to avoid the loss of connectivity with other important areas of the Atlantic Forest, consists of an innovative production model based on the recovery of degraded areas of the Atlantic Forest in the area of influence of San Rafael with Ilex paraguariensis – yerba mate with other native species, promoting its natural and cultural conservation, as well as the economic viability of rural and indigenous communities.
Clam and callus fisheries play a very important role for the wellbeing of coastal communities in northwestern Mexico. These fisheries face challenges such as overexploitation, illegality, poor management, lack of information, low involvement of the productive sector in decision making, among others. To address these challenges, COBI has implemented various management tools in collaboration with different stakeholders (fishing communities, government sector, academia and civil society organizations). These tools include the design and adoption of integrated harvesting strategies. In addition, systematized information has been generated to help design and evaluate harvesting strategies, identify environmental impacts on the fishery, and create sustainable management systems for clams and corns, either through formal processes, by means of an official decree, or traditional, through community agreements.
En México, la mayoría de las pesquerías en pequeña escala que capturan peces carecen de monitoreo pesquero y biológico adecuado. Esto deja vacíos de información y dificulta su manejo. También, complica el reconocimiento de dichas pesquerías ante estándares internacionales, así como la existencia de un beneficio social y económico para las pescadoras y los pescadores. Con el fin de lograr una pesca sostenible de la pesquería de peces (excluyendo a los tiburones y rayas) en México, los actores involucrados en esta pesquería se unieron, bajo un esquema de co-manejo y co-financiamiento, que incorpora la igualdad de género, para establecer un monitoreo pesquero que brinde información para generar mejoras en la pesquería y en su manejo. Esto ha posicionado a las pescadoras y los pescadores como pioneros en sostenibilidad pesquera, siendo un ejemplo para muchas otras personas dedicadas a la pesca.
In Mexico, smallholder agriculture under rainfed conditions is no longer a viable alternative for most farming families due to low productivity and the high cost of inputs, resulting in high loss rates, low crop prices, migration, and the degradation of natural resources. In response to this problem, INIFAP researchers developed five technological components to help farmers reduce production costs and increase yields: a) Conservation tillage, b) Organic nutrition, c) Selection of their own seed, d) Ecological pest management, and e) Alternative methods for grain and seed storage.
The general objective of the project was to consolidate this sustainable agricultural production model by strengthening the social organization of the region’s producers, as well as implementing and replicating the five sustainable axes model.
Shade-grown coffee represents more than 66% of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Biosphere Reserve in El Salvador, which interconnects and enables the flow of flora and fauna species. However, this crop faces two major threats: the first is the elimination of coffee plantations due to land use changes for urbanization, and the second is the replacement of coffee plantations with basic grains and vegetable crops.
In this regard, the Green Development Fund project in the SICA region of El Salvador called “Leveraging farms with agroecological management of the coffee agroecosystem in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Biosphere Reserve” worked with 50 producers to restore ecosystems and landscapes through agroecological and diversified coffee production. This allowed them to improve their income thanks to new products and the added value provided by agroecological coffee management, strengthening the marketing chain of products associated with the crop.
The project aims to minimize the human-jaguar conflict by implementing farm management plans with anti-predation measures, GPS telemetry to understand jaguar behavior and we work with the community. Most jaguar deaths are due to predation on livestock that is not properly managed. We support producers to maximize the benefits on the farm. The plans reorganize the property and the producers work intensively, using less paddock area, and these with water, improved pasture, cultivation areas, night pens for cows and calves to spend the night, all of this encourages the paddock areas to regenerate and transform into forest. The measures we have used are electric fences powered by a solar panel, collars with bells for the cattle and with small lights on the sides of the collar. We have placed collars on jaguars to understand their movement on 14 farms. Extensive cattle ranching has diminished biodiversity in Panama.
Yawi-Sumak es una combinación de palabras indígenas, Yawi significa: saladero, un sitio en el bosque donde las aves y otros animales se reúnen para ingerir sales minerales y Sumak significa: bonito, grandioso. A través de un ciclopaseo ecológico con más de 300 ciclistas, se muestran las acciones que implementan autoridades ambientales, gobiernos locales y la comunidad en la conservación y uso sostenible de los recursos naturales. Esta herramienta de comunicación innovadora e incluyente permite a la población urbana tener una experiencia vivencial al conocer la belleza escénica, servicios ecosistémicos y especies paraguas, así como también la riqueza cultural de los grupos étnicos que habitan en la región: Shuar, Saraguro y Mestizos.
La iniciativa se pudo replicar en el Programa Regional AbE Ecuador para fomentar el ecoturismo comunitario en Membrillal, Manabi y se ha constituido en el ciclopaseo más importante del país. Fue presentada en el foro mundial de la bicicleta en México 2017.
La Reserva Comunal Machiguenga alberga gran diversidad biológica y cultural,habitada por las comunidades nativas de las etnias Matsigenka, Ashaninka, Kaquinte y Yine-Yami, quienes son los guardianes del bosque y de sus riquezas desde tiempos ancestrales. El buen vivir de estas poblaciones necesita la articulación de los diferentes niveles de gobierno y actores locales, por ello los planes de vida, son las herramienta clave que permiten articular su visión de futuro con las actividades del Estado, la sociedad civil y el sector privado.
Las comunidades socias del Ejecutor de Contrato de Administración “MAENI”(ECA MAENI) que cuentan con PDV son Chakopishiato, Koribeni, Poyentimari y Tangoshiari elaborados con el soporte del equipo del ECA y la Jefatura de la RC Machiguenga.
Los PDV se basan en 3 pilares para: