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Linking food security and forest conservation under REDD+

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Main Project
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£347,758
WHERE ICON
WHERE
Sierra Leone

Summary

This project will identify the most important Community Forests for biodiversity around the Gola Rainforest National Park and empower communities to protect them through tailored training to increase food security, linking it with zero-deforestation in High Conservation Value (HCV) areas. The Gola REDD+ project protects Gola Rainforest National Park by helping forest-edge people sustainably increase crop yield, keeping annual deforestation of their community forests to under 2.5%. However any deforestation risks losing High Conservation Value community forest, which provides habitat for globally-threatened species and connects the Gola Rainforest National Park with protected Liberian forest. This project will identify the most important Community Forests for biodiversity and empower communities to protect them.
 
Status Completed
Reference 26-004
Round 25
Start 01/05/2019
End 31/10/2022

Project Leader


Project Partners
Malema communities, National Protected Areas Authority, Conservation Society of Sierra Leone, Gola Rainforest National Park - GRNP


Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa

Biomes
TROPICAL FOREST, FORESTS

Production
FORESTRY

Threats To Biodiversity
LAND USE CHANGE

Broad Approches
GOODS SERVICES, SUSTAINABLE USE, POVERTY REDUCTION, LIVELIHOODS

Specific Tools
CEPA, IMPACT ASSESSMENT, PROTECTED AREAS, NBSAP

Countries
Sierra Leone

Conventions
CBD

Documents:
Download: Annual Report - 26-004 AR3 - 02/03/2023

Download: Half Year Report - 26-004 HYR3 - 25/11/2021

Download: Annual Report - 26-004 AR2 -edited - 11/08/2021

Download: Half Year Report - 26-004 HR2 - 11/08/2021

Download: Annual Report - 26-004 AR1 - 25/08/2020

Download: Half Year Report - 26-004 HYR1 - 25/08/2020

Download: Application Form - 26-004 App - 26/09/2019