Research and Training
We strive to involve local people in conservation research activities in a bid to ensure participation, benefit sharing, hands on training as a way of minimizing and diverting the high pressure of locals from hunting endangered wildlife and unsustainable exploitation of other forest resources.
- Bush meat surveys
- Wildlife monitoring (camera trapping, long term line transects)
- Wildlife Acoustic Recording Unit (ARUs) studies
- Primates research
- General Biodiversity research
- Human wildlife conflict mitigation
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Community involvement in Eco-tourism ventures
- Environmental and social impact assesements
- Socio-economic studies (hunters & household surveys)
- GPS and GIS training for members
- Training in conservation leadership (conservation project management)
- Training on participatory community based research methods
- Anti poaching patrol evaluation and design
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Student field schools, e.g. University of Dschang, Cameroon, James Madison University, USA, Georg-August
University Göttingen, Germany
- Non-timber forest products surveys
- Community REDD+ and PES initiatives
Some impressions...
