Part 1 – A Rapid Participatory Biodiversity Assessment - IUCN

IUCN Rapid Participatory Biodiversity Assessment
• Watershed and Wetlands Management - These two provinces are rich in water resources
and the aquatic resources these waterways provide are an extremely important part of
peoples daily diet. It is recommended that opportunities for technical assistance in setting up
fish conservation zones, fish breeding and the establishment of agreements for managing
their stream with neighboured villages be explored. By restoring streams and rivers through
regenerating natural forest buffers, this could prove important for drinking water supply as
well.
• District biodiversity monitoring - Monitoring is very limited and mainly confined to national
protected areas and production forests. There is considerable scope for supporting the
establishment of district biodiversity monitoring programmes, initially through the collaborative
monitoring of biodiversity in and around plantation sites (see section 5.). District monitoring
programmes should focus on a few easy to monitor, sensitive indicator species. For example,
monitoring of change in the high value forests and downstream from plantation sites as the
impacts of management practices on downstream water quality. .
• Conduct awareness raising and education programmes on ecosystem services and humanwellbeing
related to biodiversity and the importance of its conservation - The company could
prepare relevant communication material ihn local language (ie,m posters, pamphlets etc.),
and distribute them among local government officials, plantation workers, villagers and school
students in the district.
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