Connecter les couloirs d?éléphants dans le paysage Nouabalé- Ndoki ? Lac télé et développement de
l?écotourisme a partir des éléphants qui visitent les clairières de forets; soumis par l?Association Ecologie Conservation
Tourisme (ECOTOUR)
The so-called Kaboungas land is more or less surrounded by swamps from which springs the sources of the Likouala river with herbs, one of the tributaries of the Congo Basin. It is the junction between the Tri-National Sangha landscape between Cameroon, CAR and Congo and the Bi-national Lake -Tele Lac Tumba landscape, between Congo and the DRC. Previous studies conducted by WCS have demonstrated the connection of the elephant trail network from the Dzanga Sangha National Park in southern CAR to the Kaboungas Land, crossing the entire Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in Co ngo. This so-called Kaboungas land contains more than half a dozen clearings of elephant and gorilla preference, unfortunately exposed to poaching through the complicity of local people and indigenous peoples of the country. The project aims to reduce poverty and pressure on biodiversity, through the development of income-generating activities (IGAs) focused on the development of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), including ongoing community monitoring of preferred biotopes. large mammals (elephants and gorillas). The project will lead local communities to ensure the continued monitoring of the biotopes of predilection of large mammals adjacent or contained in their village soil, with a view to securing them and developing de facto ecotourism products (Gorillas and elephants), including induced effects on ecotourism exploitation, will bring an added value to the socio-economic development of the country and the department. To achieve this objective, the project provides immediate support for the development of the aforementioned IGAs to ensure not only the lean season between the cessation of financing by large poaching and the recording of the benefits of ecotourism, but also a significant parallel source in the socio-economic development, which from the soil of Liouesso, will snowball in the department. Thus the project will contribute to the maintenance and / or restoration of migration corridors of large mammals.
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Association Ecologique Conservation Tourisme
Country:
Congo brazzaville
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 49,400.00
Co-Financing Cash:
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 45,200.00
Project Number:
COG/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/18/02
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
Being still in the pilot phase, evaluations will be carried out during the first year of the project and guidance will eventually be taken on a case-by-case basis.
Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples
Groups of a dozen people are formed according to the facilities, go camping for a maximum of three (3) days per week to harvest in the beaches of Maranthacée located in the perimeter of forests communaitaire. Each of the groups are small packets of sheets that are delivered to previously organized brokers and holders of the cargo trucks, depending on the volumes ordered. Deliveries are paid in cash and the activity is viable all seasons of the year. Similarly, during the fruiting season of the Irvengia Gabonensis, several groups of a dozen people, will camp for several weeks deep in the community forest, to extract fines from fruits, to constitute bags that will be transported to the village for drying and transformation into food paw bars allowed for local consumption and marketing in urban centers, through previously organized brokers. .
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