Project overview
Promoting sustainable wildlife consumption for both cultural materials and animal source food at a rural village level; assessing sustainability of wildlife harvest through monitoring hunter offtake and target species population size; promoting the creation of community-led natural resource management plans; extending the life of wildlife derived cultural materials; shifting rural protein consumption from bush-meat to mini-livestock ensuring nutrition security and diet enrichment; preserving intangible culture by promoting intergenerational transmission of native languages and traditional knowledge of nature.
Other partner organisations
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Centre de coopération nternationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Framework action tracks
- 01 – Our people at the centre of conservation action
- 02 – Behaviour change for nature conservation through heritage and cultural expressions
- 04 – Sustainable and resilient island economies
- 05 – Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to sustain our social-ecological systems
- 09 – Effective terrestrial protected areas
- 10 – Terrestrial ecological integrity
- 12 – Reducing threats to threatened and migratory terrestrial species
- 19 – Science and traditional knowledge for target-setting and monitoring
- 20 – Governance that works for nature conservation