Ecosystem services assessment in Timor Leste

How much do ecosystem services value and how much of this value is hold in protected areas? Though these questions are very difficult to answer, providing evidence of nature contribution to people and the role of protected areas as sources of values rather than sink is key in the process of conservation endorsement, particularly when monetary value is accounted for. In this report we present ecosystem services evaluation and mapping in Timor-Leste based on two approaches: global monetary value summaries and national experts evaluations.

Assessing the social impacts, governance and equity of conservation

Conservation activities entail many relationships between environmental non-governmental organizations and donors, governments and private sectors, practitioners and local people  resulting in what Sundberg (2006) called ‘conservation encounters’ – complex interactions that encompass encounters between the global and local, different cultural and social systems, human and non-human species, powers and ownerships.   https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/37d984fa79ca44719c6a8f4bd0aa97b6

From Data to Decision-Making

Data and information on biodiversity state and trends are fundamental to monitor conservation status of world’s ecosystems and to tackle the biodiversity crises we are facing. The availability and reliability of biodiversity data become, in the last decades, the strategic pillar to policy and decision-making process. There is a strong need for biodiversity data and information to better evaluate progress towards conservation goals and to tailor new evidence-based conservation strategies. 

Data workshop on Protected and Conserved Areas for Eastern and Southern Africa-Nairobi, 20-24 March 2023

Change is the end result of all true learning

When I accessed the Regional Centre for Mapping Resources for Development headquarter in Kasarani, Nairobi, to attend the second edition of the Regional Resource Hub (RRH) Data Workshop on Protected and Conserved Areas for Eastern and Southern Africa, I could see the change has happened

IMET assessments in the Tai, Grebo-Khran and Sapo NP

In 2021, the Ivorian Office of Parks and Reserves (OIPR), the Liberian Forest Department Authority (FDA) and the German cooperation agency GIZ evaluated the three parks: Tai, Grebo-Khran and Sapo with the  Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET) . The overall objective was to identify strengths and weaknesses of management. In each park, a dozen of participants from staff, local stakeholders and partners spent four days to look at all aspects of park management taking into account the local context and history of each park. 

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