Community-based sustainable management of forest resources in Amazonian extractive reserves
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £245,864
WHERE Brazil
Summary
To design appropriate guidelines to manage game vertebrates and other nontimber resource populations in large multiple-use tropical forest reserves, helping the Brazilian federal and state governments in developing, stimulating and implementing effective community-based wildlife management programs that are grounded in the socioeconomic reality of Amazonian Extractive and Sustainable Development Reserves, and Indigenous Territories.
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT, CO MANAGEMENT, BENEFIT SHARING, INCENTIVES, SUSTAINABLE USE, GOODS SERVICES, ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION, IN SITU, SPECIES CONSERVATION
Specific Tools
PROTECTED AREAS, MONITORING, RESEARCH TRAINING
Countries
Brazil
Project Outputs
1. Assessment of forest resources extracted, and levels of offtake.
2. Quantitative assessment of the demographic sustainability of forest resource extraction.
3. Local monitors, field technicians and students able to assess and monitor forest biodiversity using quantitative methods.
4. Local communities at at RDS Uacari and RESEX Medio-Jurua, and other reserves are able to effectively apply large-scale management recommendations.
