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February 2012
Organization(s): Fundación Cordillera Tropical (FCT), Ecuador; University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Project Name and Location: Community Engagement and Training Parabiologists to Protect Globally Threatened Species in Southern Sangay National Park, Ecuador -- Ecuador.
Goals
- Build the capacity of park officials, community-based parabiologists, and landowners to conserve wildlife and habitats in southern SNP by involving them in joint training and conservation planning to:
- Use non-lethal methods to reduce conflicts with wildlife.
- Monitor wildlife in and around titled lands within southern SNP. The monitoring focuses on verifying compliance with an inchoate payment for the protection of environmental services program and a new wildlife-friendly agricultural certification program.
Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation
- To address conservation of public lands as well as overall habitat conservation in payment for the protection of environmental services programs and in other private initiatives, we measure deforestation of native cloud forest, reforestation of degraded areas, and transformation of grasslands to and from native páramo using remote sensing images. We additionally use field observations of human activity and wildlife presence/absence to test the assumption that the worst threats to biodiversity come from habitat transformation and direct, unsustainable exploitation of wildlife.
We use social scientific survey methods (focus groups, interviews, and workshop questionnaires) as well as direct observation of human activities by parabiologists in their monitoring areas to measure landholder tolerance toward wildlife and for Sangay National Park.
Finally, to assess our interventions (training, technical support, and monitoring), we evaluate if trainees used their skills in the following year via focus groups and interviews. We will determine if technical support for interventions led to better cost-effectiveness and whether interventions to protect property from wildlife were maintained by landowners.
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