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Mobonda Community Conservation Project: Chimpanzees, oysters, and community engagement in Sierra Leone
American Journal of Primatology ( IF 2.0 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 , DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23219
Chloe Chesney 1 , Natalia Casado Bolaños 1 , Bockarie Ambrose Kanneh 1 , Ethel Sillah 1 , Bala Amarasekaran 1 , Rosa M Garriga 1
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Sierra Leone constitutes the western boundary to the West Africa Upper Guinea Rainforest, one of 35 global biodiversity hotspots. The country is home to the third‐largest western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) population, a subspecies upgraded to Critically Endangered on the 2016 IUCN Red List. The main threats facing chimpanzees in Sierra Leone are habitat loss and increasing interactions with humans. The Mobonda Community Conservation Project (MCCP) is a component of Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary's Community Outreach Program and Kids Environmental Education Program. The aim of MCCP is to promote community‐based forest management in combination with wildlife conservation through carefully designed programs that benefit communities, wildlife, and ecologically significant habitats. MCCP also aims to promote self‐sustained and integrated community landscape conservation, to facilitate policy discussions to strengthen wildlife laws, and to build the capacity of the Government to implement community‐based wildlife and forestry protection projects. Since Tacugama began collecting data in Moyamba District in June 2015, the project has evolved into an assembly of components. MCCP currently works with five communities, running programs including environmental education, ecological research, biomonitoring including wildlife law enforcement, habitat rehabilitation through reforestation of identified wildlife corridors, improved sustainable livelihoods, and ecotourism initiatives. These programs contributed to a reduction in the threats facing wildlife in the area; the project has seen stable chimpanzee numbers where decrements to chimpanzee populations continue to be experienced elsewhere. Other MCCP outcomes include boosted sustainable agricultural production and higher oyster yields while decreasing the negative impact on the mangrove ecosystem allowing it to recover and support an array of important fauna and flora.

中文翻译:

Mobonda 社区保护项目:塞拉利昂的黑猩猩、牡蛎和社区参与

塞拉利昂构成了西非上几内亚雨林的西部边界,该雨林是全球 35 个生物多样性热点之一。该国是第三大西部黑猩猩(Pan troglodytes verus) 种群,该亚种在 2016 年 IUCN 红色名录中升级为极危。塞拉利昂黑猩猩面临的主要威胁是栖息地丧失和与人类互动的增加。Mobonda 社区保护项目 (MCCP) 是 Tacugama 黑猩猩保护区社区外展计划和儿童环境教育计划的一个组成部分。MCCP 的目标是通过精心设计的有益于社区、野生动物和具有重要生态意义的栖息地的计划,促进以社区为基础的森林管理与野生动物保护相结合。MCCP 还旨在促进自我维持和综合社区景观保护,促进政策讨论以加强野生动物法律,并建设政府实施社区野生动物和林业保护项目的能力。自 Tacugama 于 2015 年 6 月开始在 Moyamba 区收集数据以来,该项目已演变为组件的组装。MCCP 目前与五个社区合作,开展包括环境教育、生态研究、包括野生动物执法在内的生物监测、通过重新造林已确定的野生动物走廊来恢复栖息地、改善可持续生计和生态旅游倡议等项目。这些计划有助于减少该地区野生动物面临的威胁;该项目的黑猩猩数量稳定,其他地方继续出现黑猩猩数量减少的情况。
更新日期:2020-12-02
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