Project of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable use in Datong Village Community, Jiulongfeng Social Public Welfare Natural Reserve of Mount Huang
Description:
Based on visits to Datong community, the project aims to understand and familiarize with surrounding communities, assisting residents in repelling wildlife causing accidents. Through community empowerment, it aims to incubate and cultivate community environmental self-organizations. It will conduct community co-management and agreement protection, establish and consolidate community conservation areas, expand protection areas, and promote community participation in conservation efforts. At the same time, it will respond to the needs of residents for development and livelihoods by exploring win-win approaches to improve residents' livelihoods and protect the environment through sustainable ecological planting, community ecotourism, and nature education. This will promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of communities, fostering harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Main Problems:
1. Difficulties in reaching administrative law enforcement
2. Traditional resource utilization behaviors exist in surrounding communities within the protected area
3. There are many communities and intersections around the protected area, leading to significant human interference
4. Local residents need alternative livelihood options
5. The protected area is relatively small, leading to habitat fragmentation for wildlife
Solutions:
Specific work solutions:
1. Community foundation work:
1.1 Community visits
1.2 Building good community relationships
2. Community co-management and agreement protection work:
2.1 Community empowerment and cultivation of community self-organization
2.2 Community co-management or agreement protection
3. Community alternative livelihood projects:
3.1 Establishment of Qingmei public welfare planting base
3.2 Community nature education and ecotourism
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1. Through community interviews, conducting Good Neighbor Public Welfare activities, and installing wildlife deterrent devices, the awareness of biodiversity conservation, especially the protection of wildlife, among villagers in Datong Village will be enhanced, and the support rate for conservation efforts will reach 90%.
2. The self-management and community co-management capacity of the Datong community conservation area will be enhanced, the system and mechanism for community self-organization will be improved, and the Datong community conservation area will be successfully registered under the Indigenous and Community Conserved Area (ICCA) system supervised by UNEP, gaining more social recognition. Effective protection of the forest ecosystem will cover an area of ??1330 hectares. By patrolling and promoting awareness, human threats such as hunting, illegal collection, and illegal entry into the core area in Datong Village will be reduced to below 5 incidents per year.
3. The construction of a 150-acre Qingmei public welfare planting base is completed, involving the participation of 10 community women in planting 3000 Qingmei trees. Through the alternative economic activity of planting Qingmei trees, it is expected that three years later, when the Qingmei trees bear fruit, each household will earn an additional income of 2000 yuan.
4. By developing and promoting ecotourism routes in Datong Village, the number of tourists and visitors will increase by 100 annually, thereby enhancing the economic benefits of the community residents.
5. Summarize and share one copy of the "Community Co-Management Guidelines for Nature Reserves?Best Practices at Jiulong Peak" and share it with other protected area communities.
Based on visits to Datong community, the project aims to understand and familiarize with surrounding communities, assisting residents in repelling wildlife causing accidents. Through community empowerment, it aims to incubate and cultivate community environmental self-organizations. It will conduct community co-management and agreement protection, establish and consolidate community conservation areas, expand protection areas, and promote community participation in conservation efforts. At the same time, it will respond to the needs of residents for development and livelihoods by exploring win-win approaches to improve residents' livelihoods and protect the environment through sustainable ecological planting, community ecotourism, and nature education. This will promote biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of communities, fostering harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
Main Problems:
1. Difficulties in reaching administrative law enforcement
2. Traditional resource utilization behaviors exist in surrounding communities within the protected area
3. There are many communities and intersections around the protected area, leading to significant human interference
4. Local residents need alternative livelihood options
5. The protected area is relatively small, leading to habitat fragmentation for wildlife
Solutions:
Specific work solutions:
1. Community foundation work:
1.1 Community visits
1.2 Building good community relationships
2. Community co-management and agreement protection work:
2.1 Community empowerment and cultivation of community self-organization
2.2 Community co-management or agreement protection
3. Community alternative livelihood projects:
3.1 Establishment of Qingmei public welfare planting base
3.2 Community nature education and ecotourism
Anticipated results/outcomes:
1. Through community interviews, conducting Good Neighbor Public Welfare activities, and installing wildlife deterrent devices, the awareness of biodiversity conservation, especially the protection of wildlife, among villagers in Datong Village will be enhanced, and the support rate for conservation efforts will reach 90%.
2. The self-management and community co-management capacity of the Datong community conservation area will be enhanced, the system and mechanism for community self-organization will be improved, and the Datong community conservation area will be successfully registered under the Indigenous and Community Conserved Area (ICCA) system supervised by UNEP, gaining more social recognition. Effective protection of the forest ecosystem will cover an area of ??1330 hectares. By patrolling and promoting awareness, human threats such as hunting, illegal collection, and illegal entry into the core area in Datong Village will be reduced to below 5 incidents per year.
3. The construction of a 150-acre Qingmei public welfare planting base is completed, involving the participation of 10 community women in planting 3000 Qingmei trees. Through the alternative economic activity of planting Qingmei trees, it is expected that three years later, when the Qingmei trees bear fruit, each household will earn an additional income of 2000 yuan.
4. By developing and promoting ecotourism routes in Datong Village, the number of tourists and visitors will increase by 100 annually, thereby enhancing the economic benefits of the community residents.
5. Summarize and share one copy of the "Community Co-Management Guidelines for Nature Reserves?Best Practices at Jiulong Peak" and share it with other protected area communities.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
Huangshan City Huangshan District Lumanjianghuai Nature Conservation Center
Country:
China
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 50,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 16,393.44
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 38,797.80
Project Number:
CPR/SGP/OP7/Y4/STAR/BD/2023/07
Status:
Not active yet
Project Characteristics and Results
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
(1) Organize community elites to attend study tours to green plum planting bases and invite technicians to give training; film the whole process of green plum planting techniques, including planting, pruning, weeding, deworming, preventing extreme weather, etc., and broadcast it as a small video through the Cosmos Community Group, so that community villagers can understand the process of planting, so that the community can go back to learn, summarize and practice;
(2) We pay special attention to capacity building and training. We will conduct more than 10 capacity building activities for project staff, project volunteers, and community organizations. Through capacity building, the sharing and dissemination of the project's experience will be achieved.
(3) Convene 1 seminar to summarize and summarize the experience and results of the project through the help of experts on the one hand, and to diffuse the main findings and experiences on the other hand;
(4) Produce 50 copies of the manual "A Guide to Community Co-Management of Nature Reserves - Based on the Best Practices of Jiulongfeng Protected Area" for distribution to nature reserves in Anhui Province;
(5) Diffuse knowledge to the community by utilizing publicity channels such as partner Peach Blossom Ecological Protection Foundation, Ant Forest, and Shanghai United Way Public Welfare Foundation;
(6) Dissemination of experience in the GEF system using the channels of partners of the Huangshan GEF Project Office, the Anhui Wetland GEF Project Office, and the Xianju Pilot Project Office of the Global Environment Facility's China National Park Institutional Mechanism Innovation Project;
(7) Submit the project summary report and dissemination materials of the experience and results to relevant government departments to expand publicity.
(8) Summarize some key findings and specific practices into tweets and publish them in appropriate social media to expand the social impact of project results and project knowledge.
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
Activity 1.
Project Activities
1.1 Conduct community interviews targeting communities around the Jiulongfeng Conservation Area;
1.2 Community Good Neighbor Project: research the needs of the community in Datong Village, and carry out targeted community assistance and community cultural activities four times;
1.3 Provide wildlife removal devices to the people of Datong Village.
Activity 2.
Project Activities
2.1 Enhance the capacity building of Datong Village Committee and Datong Community Reserve by assisting Datong Community Reserve to submit an application to UNEP ICCA, improve the system, hold regular monthly meetings with Jiulongfeng Reserve, and conduct joint patrols and community interviews;
2.2.1 Organize one outside training to enhance the team's motivation;
2.2.2 Invite external community conservation experts to conduct 2 capacity building trainings and meetings targeting community conservancies;
2.2.3 Tatung Community Patrol Team to carry out patrols and assist in scientific monitoring (5 community patrollers to patrol the river 2 times a day, the mountain 4 times a month, 1 joint patrol and 10 infrared cameras for species monitoring);
Activity 3.
Project Activities
3.1 Organize the women's environmental protection group and Datong Village Cooperative to visit the green plum planting base. The women's environmental protection group participated in the establishment of the women's green plum public welfare base, and 10 women participated in the management of the green plum planting, and chose 150 acres of tea gardens to participate in the green plum set planting;
3.2 Implementation of the project of planting green plums in 150 mu of tea gardens, and planting 3,000 green plums.
3.3 Organize more than 2 trainings on green plum and tea planting;
3.4 Organize one exhibition and sale of agricultural products from protected areas, and invite enterprises such as Peach Blossom System and Chiyo Rice Wine to visit the exhibition and sale.
Activity 4.
Project Activities
4.1 Help Datong Village to conduct 2 training courses for community guides and safety officers;
4.2 Develop 4 eco-tourism routes to be incorporated into all Jiulongfeng nature education and eco-tourism routes;
4.3 Develop 4 sets of nature education courses;
Activity 5.
Project Activities
5.1 Combine the results and hold 1 workshop to evaluate the effectiveness of the project implementation and promote dissemination.
5.2 Combine the contents of community co-management and agreement on protection, and compile the "Guide to Community Co-management of Nature Reserves - Best Practices in Jiulongfeng Protected Area".
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Indicators
Biophysical
Number of globally significant species protected by project
4
Biophysical
Hectares of globally significant biodiversity area protected or sustainably managed by project
1330
SGP Country office contact
Ms. Meijia Lu
Phone:
+861085320743
Email:
Ms. Lixia Zheng
Email:
Address
No. 2 Liangmahe Nanlu
Beijing, Chaoyang, 100600
Beijing, Chaoyang, 100600
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