Community-based Green project | One-year report 2018-2019

One year report: Community-based Green project

One year report: Community-based Green project

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Limbe Wildlife Centre: Community-based Green project 2018-19

by Guillaume LE FLOHIC, Manager (Limbe Wildlife Centre) & Country Director (Pandrillus Cameroon)

Published in October 2018 Limbe Wildlife Centre, P.O. Box 878, Limbe, Republic of Cameroon

Limbe Wildlife Centre is a collaborative effort between Pandrillus Foundation and the Republic of Cameroon, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, MINFOF Pandrillus Foundation is a non-profit making NGO specialized in the protection, rehabilitation and reintroduction of primates, as well as management and sustainable financing of conservation projects in Africa.

Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife is in charge of implementing the national forest policy for ensuring sustainable management and conservation of wildlife and biodiversity over the national territory as enacted by forestry law No. 01/94 of 20 January which regulates all forestry, wildlife and fisheries activities

guillaume@limbewildlife.org limbewildlifecentre

+237 681 991 590 limbewildlife

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SUMMARY INDICATORS OF SUCCESS OF THE GREEN PROJECT OUR WILDLIFE POPULATION BENEFITING FROM THE PROJECT FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN FUTURE GOALS & OBJECTIVES

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Summary

Concept. The Green Project is a long-term community-based project that generates new alternative incomes for a hunting community, while providing high-value foods that enhance the diet, health and well-being of the Primates rehabilitated at the Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC). In this project, members of the community of the Batoke village are organized in Association working together in partnership with the LWC. The activity of the Association consists in providing specific amount and diversity of plants to the LWC, which organizes the transport, control and payment. The prices have been fixed by consensus between both Parties and therefore are fair, high and regular enough to alleviate local poverty. Ultimately, these incomes encourage the villagers to reduce the pressure on the surrounding wildlife and allow them to enhance both education and health care to their children.

This year, we started a new project as part of our community outreach and education programme. The Batoke Family Nature

Club aims to bring families together to understand more about the environmental challenges and to engage the community members to protect wildlife. Each month, our education team organizes a set of activities around an important subject i.e. plastic pollution, forest ecosystem to enhancing knowledge, skills and attitudes of the community towards the nature around them. Perhaps for the first time in their lives, they will learn about and actively participate in various activities relating to conservation.

This project is the next logical step towards achieving our long-term goal of creating a conservation community and to identify key individuals within the community who can undertake real conservation action in future years.

Results. For the past year, 10,392,265 XAF (18,895 USD) have been generated to the community (+10% compared to last year), and divided between a total of 157 members against 123 last year (+28%), of

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which 108 permanent members instead of 101 last year (+7%). Women in charge of the harvesting of crop by-products are getting more interested and involved every year, the number of participants raised from 71 to 80 (+13%). Unfortunately, due to the current socio-political crisis and security issues in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, the number of men harvesting wild plants has dropped from 30 to 28 (-7%).

The increase of interest and participants to the project, either permanently or punctually, has contributed to increasing the amount of browse we provided to improve the health and well-being of our animals. A total of 73.03 tons of fresh cropby product leaves (51% potato, 34% papaya, 15% cassava) and 17,92 tons of wild herbaceous plants of the wild ginger family Zingiberacea (46% of Costus. sp and 54% of Aframomum sp.) were brought to the animals every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday every month, without interruption, contributing to enhance the health of animals, the time spent foraging and stimulating social interactions and well-being. In addition, 7.9 tons of Trumpet wood were provided as enrichment, corresponding to âˆź1,500 reproductive

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organs cut manually to reduce the spread of this invasive plant.

A strong community partnership. A total of 8 sessions was organised with the Batoke Community and an additional program evaluation meeting was organized with community representatives in order to make the programme more efficient and successful.

The average number of participants was 139 (Âą 84), with a quarter of children and a majority of females.

Future development. Next year, we wish to continue with the Batoke Family Nature Club to strengthen our relationship with the community in view of developing a more holistic approach at the scale of the South-East part of the Mount Cameroon National Park where Batoke and Limbe are located. We also wish to support new green business initiatives that will be beneficial both for the Limbe Wildlife Centre and the community. We plan for example to support local craftsmen and purchase traditional tiles made of palm tree leaves and use for the roofs of our animal facilities.

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INDICATORS OF SUCCESS OF THE GREEN PROJECT 2015-16

Weight (kg)

Costs (XAF)

Weight (kg)

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Cost per kg (XAF)

Women Women Women

80 80 60

8,601 1,680 18,973 29,254

688,080 134,400 1,138,380 1,960,860

9,721 2,484 29,869 42,074

777,680 198,720 1,792,140 2,768,540

10,433 15,668 32,818 58,919

823,440 1,227,360 1,942,920 4,057,160

10,660 25,100 37,270 73,030

852,800 2,008,000 2,236,200 5,097,000

Wild herbaceous plants Aframomum sp.

Costus sp.

Subtotal Wild herbaceous

Ex-hunters Women/Men

≈ 472 50

8,672 3,742 12,414

4,089,000 187,100 4,276,100

9,779 3,274 13,053

4,611,000 163,700 4,774,700

9,594 9,712 19,306

4,524,000 480,150 5,009,600

9,594 8,327

4,524,000 416,350

Invasive plants Trumpet wood Subtotal Invasive plants

Women/Men

45

0 0

0 0

692 692

31,140 31,140

9,209 9,209

414,405 414,405

7,887 7,887

354,915 354,915

41,668

6,236,960 92 119,368 67,793 104 8.7 1.1

55,819

7,574,380 97 144,964 78,086 126 10.5 1.3

87,434

9,481,165 101 181,458 93,873 158 13.2 1.6

98,838

10,392,265 108 198,895 96,225 173 14.4 1.6

Total NB permanent members Average weekly incomes Average incomes per permanent member Equivalent monthly salaries (60,000 XAF/mth) Equivalent monthly employment Equivalent monthly salaries per member

Costs (XAF)

2017-18

Members

Products Crop by-products Cassava leaves Papaya leaves Potato leaves Subtotal Crop by-products

Weight (kg)

2016-17

Costs (XAF)

Weight (kg)

Costs (XAF)

Table 1. Weight and costs per food item and par period.

Comments: For the past 4 years, the amount of food and number of participants from the community has continuously increased. In 4 years, the equivalent of monthly salaries created through the project has increased by 66%, and now, the project employs the equivalent of 14 permanent staff from the community. Overall, the project guaranteed 1.6 monthly salary to each of the 108 permanent members (+17% in 4 years)

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4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0

Cassava leaves

Papaya leaves

Potato leaves

Aframomum sp.

Costus sp.

Trumpet wood

Figure 1. Increase of amount (kg) of food enrichment provided by the community of Batoke since January 2015 (week 1) until 1st October 2019 (week 244).

Costus sp.

4%

Trumpet wood 3%

Cassav a leaves 8% Papaya leaves 19%

Aframomum sp.

44% Potato leav es 22%

Figure 2. Contribution of each food items to the revenues generated this year.

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4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0

Cassava leaves

Papaya leaves

Potato leaves

Aframomum sp.

Costus sp.

Trumpet wood

Figure 1. Increase of amount (kg) of food enrichment provided by the community of Batoke since January 2015 (week 1) until 1st October 2019 (week 244).

Costus sp.

4%

Trumpet wood 3%

Cassav a leaves 8% Papaya leaves 19%

Aframomum sp.

44% Potato leav es 22%

Figure 2. Contribution of each food items to the revenues generated this year.

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OUR WILDLIFE POPULATION BENEFITING FROM THE PROJECT Classification PRIMATES Great ape

Species

Scientific names

[UICN]1 | Class2

Central African Chimpanzee Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee Western Lowland Gorilla

Pan troglodytes troglodytes Pan troglodytes ellioti Gorilla gorilla gorilla

[EN] | A [EN] | A [CR] | A

Drill Mandrill Oliv e baboon

Mandrillus leucophaeus Mandrillus sphinx Papio anubis

[EN] | A [VU] | A [LC] | C

Agile mangabey Red-capped Mangabey

Cercocebus agilis Cercocebus torquatus

[LC] | A [VU] | A

Crowned monkey Mona monkey Moustached monkey Patas monkey Preuss's monkey Putty-nosed monkey Red-eared monkey Red-rumped Putty-nosed monkey Tantalus monkey

Cercopithecus pogonias Cercopithecus mona Cercopithecus cephus cephus Erythrocebus patas Cercopithecus preussi Cercopithecus nictitans nictitans Cercopithecus erythrotis Cercopithecus nictitans ludio Chlorocebus tantalus

[LC] | C [LC] | C [LC] | C [LC] | C [EN] | A [LC] | C [VU] | A [LC] | C [LC] | C

Cephalophus dorsalis Philantomba monticola Tragelaphus scriptus

[NT] | B [LC] | C [LC] | B

Civettictis civetta Genetta maculata

[LC] | B [LC] | B

Psittacus erithacus Kaupifalco mongrammicus

[EN] | A [LC] | B

Pelusios niger Osteolaemus tetraspis Kinixys homeana Crocodylus niloticus Astrochelys radiata

[LC] | C [VU] | A [VU] | A [LC] | A [CR] | A

Papionid

Mangabey

Guenon

UNGULATES Bay Duiker Blue Duiker Bush Buck OTHER MAMMALS African civet Large-spotted genet BIRDS African grey parrot Lizard Buzzard REPTILES Black-hinged terrapin Dwarf crocodile Home's hinged tortoise Nile crocodile Radiated tortoise Total 1 2

check conservation status at iucnredlist.org: CR = critically endangered; EN = endangered; V U = vulnerable classes of protection as defined by Cameroonian wildlife laws: A, B and C. Class A species benefit from the highest degree of protection

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Total 215 60 11 33 16 104 82 13 9 11 4 7 40 0 13 1 3 1 2 3 8 9 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 6 6 0 7 3 2 0 1 1 233

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FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN 2018-2019 Expenditures Categories XAF USD Labour costs 867,510 1,577.29 Community suppliers 10,392,265 18,895.03 Gasoil 3,835,965 6,974.48 Outreach programme 4,035,965 7,338 Vehicle maintenance & Logistics 472,500 859.09 Fixed costs 1,257,986 2,287.25 TOTAL 17,971,226 32,674.96 NB: conversion rates: 1 USD = 550 XAF ; 1 EUR = 655 XAF

EUR 1,322.51 15,842.91 5,847.89 6,153 720.32 1,917.79 27,396.96

Fixed costs Labour costs Vehicle 5% 7% maintenance 3% Outreach programme 22% Community suppliers 58%

Gasoil 5%

Figure 3. Breakdown of expenditures.

Comments: This year, 58% of the budget was used to remunerate community members and an additional 22% was used to conduct activities of our outreach program. We also managed to keep the maintenance cost of our vehicle low although it is getting old and might have to be renewed within the next 3 years.

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FUTURE GOALS & OBJECTIVES In the next year, we plan to continue to engage the community further in conservation by hosting a monthly Family Nature Club, to change behaviours and enhance their relationship with the nature around them. Such a project will also offer additional employment opportunities through recruiting more farmers to provide food for the animals in such an enclosure. If we are to convert this ex-hunting community to a conservation community, we must continue this important alternative livelihood project and encourage new initiatives.

Projected budget 2018-2019 Next year, as part of our community outreach program, besides the Family Nature

Club, we plan a slight increase of budget, but predict that the number of new members will not increase as much as in the past year. Next year, we will continue as last year and invest more on the quality of our relationships, rather than on the number, in order to have a higher conservation impact.

2018-2019 planned Categories EUR USD Labour costs 1,388.64 1,656.16 Community suppliers 16,635.05 19,840 Gasoil 1,469.46 1,752.55 Outreach programme 6,097.96 7,272.73 Vehicle maintenance 828.37 987.95 Fixed costs 1,988.56 2,371.66 TOTAL 28,408.04 33,880.82

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