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