Carbon biomass
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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The ‘Kyoto: Think Global, Act Local’ (K:TGAL) project trialled community-based forest monitoring in 30 sites in 7 countries between 2003 and 2009. It developed and tested a methodology and survey...
Guinea Bissau, India, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Senegal and Tanzania
Monitoring Themes
Governance
Deforestation drivers
Land use change
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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