Items tagged:
Ape conservation
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Local economic development through gorilla tourism
Gorilla-tracking tourist activities in Uganda's Bwindi national park generate critical revenue for conservation, but local benefits from tourism are limited and the illegal use of the park's resources continues. This project developed and tested new community-based tourism products and services to improve local skills and job opportunities, and the long-term prospects for the park
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TV documentary highlights conservation and poverty links in Cameroon
Making a TV documentary about great ape conservation allowed the PCLG project in Cameroon to focus attention on the impacts on local communities
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Addressing the interplay between agribusiness investments and ape conservation
Recent years have witnessed a new wave of large-scale acquisitions for agribusiness investments in Africa and Asia. Countries that house a large proportion of the world's biodiversity and ape habitats and populations have lost areas of high biodiversity land to commercial agriculture. Despite much effort at local, national and global levels, evidence on the exact scale, location and coverage of agribusiness investments remains patchy and often unreliable
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Poverty and conservation in DRC – what role for a network?
A new network being set up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo aims to bring organisations together on poverty and conservation issues
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Linking ape conservation with economic development and social justice
Great ape conservation organisations are increasingly aware of the need to integrate issues relating to economic development and social justice if they are to be successful. This project aims to build capacity of organisations to do this internationally and in key African great ape range states.
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PCLG: an international learning network on the links between people and nature conservation
PCLG international shares opportunities and research through two regular newsletters, and supports PCLG national groups in Cameroon, DRC and Uganda
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Game reveals complex links between poverty and threats to apes
There were 50 ape experts in a room and a quick game to play to break the ice. “If you agree with the statement, go to the left side of the room,” said the facilitator.
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Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor
Chimpanzees in Uganda are under threat as their habitat is lost to agriculture and human settlements. Central to this problem is the attitude of most farmers that chimpanzees and forest habitat conservation are a threat to their own livelihoods. IIED and Chimpanzee Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Trust (CSWCT) showed how an equitable and financially sustainable payment scheme can compensate local landholders for conserving and restoring forest habitats and for protecting chimpanzee populations
