Natural resources
Case Studies
These case studies share key insights, methodologies and indicators, challenges and successes from community based forest monitoring initiatives around the world.
Searchable by ‘monitoring theme’ and ‘international agenda’, these case studies aim to help policy-makers and practitioners understand how community based monitoring can inform national and international forest agendas such as the CBD, FLEGT and REDD+.
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This community-based monitoring initiative in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the state of Acre, Brazil, had the following objectives.
(1) Create learning...
Acre, Brazil
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This initiative aims to strengthen the protection of the Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Territory, home to the Apiwtxa community of Ashaninka people, in the state of Acre, Brazil.
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Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Territory, Marechal Thaumaturgo Municipality, Acre State, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
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This innovative project involves community management groups in monitoring the population dynamics of the arapaima fish and the impact of arapaima harvesting on other fish species and ecosystems....
Feijó, Acre, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Natural resources
Ecosystem services
Deforestation drivers
Wellbeing & social issues
Policies & measures
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This initiative piloted a community-based REDD+ safeguard monitoring system in an area within Maï Ndombe Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the company...
Maï Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
Governance
Wellbeing & social issues
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From 2009 onwards, WWF-DRC has worked in Maï-Ndombe province to develop, test and most recently implement actions for REDD+ (to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, with...
Maï-Ndombe province
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The Suruí Forest Carbon project aims to reduce deforestation on the Paiter Suruí people's territory in the Brazilian Amazon, Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory (TISS), by providing economic...
Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory (TISS), Rondonia and Mato Grosso States, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Biodiversity
Carbon biomass
Deforestation drivers
Natural resources
Wellbeing & social issues
Land use change
not case study
The Amarakaeri Communal Reserve was established in 2002 to protect the headwaters of the Eori/Madre de Dios and Karene/Colorado rivers, and to secure the quality of the natural environment for the...
Madre de Dios Region, Manu Province, Peru
Monitoring Themes
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
not case study
A CMRV initiative is currently underway in the Mpelu and Kemvuma villages in the Bolobo Territory in the east of Maï-Ndombe Province. This monitoring system is part of a payment for environmental...
Maï-Ndombe province
Monitoring Themes
Land use change
Natural resources
Governance
Carbon biomass
not case study
The Bolsa Floresta Programme (BFP) is an initiative that was launched in 2007 by the State of Amazonas, Brazil, in order to implement incentive-based forest conservation : one of the first...
Amazonas State, Brazil
Monitoring Themes
Policies & measures
Ecosystem services