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+.
This community-based monitoring initiative in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the state of Acre, Brazil, had the following objectives.
(1) Create learning...
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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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...