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Biodiversity conservation

Conservation of wildlife

CAMP Alatoo's Wildlife Conservation program works to implement comprehensive mechanisms to conserve biodiversity, forests and rangelands, and to strengthen local institutions for sustainable and mutually beneficial coexistence between local communities and wildlife sites. Comprehensive mechanisms include blocks such as professional development of for staff of Protected Areas (PAs), creation and piloting of models of public PAs, justification and creation of ecological corridors, development and adaptation of approaches and tools for effective management of state and public PAs, monitoring and conservation of biodiversity, improvement of the legislative base in the field of biodiversity.

Under the conditions of climate change, intensive use of natural resources, poaching and hunting, and other anthropogenic factors, wildlife is threatened with significant range reduction and even extinction of some species of flora and fauna. The establishment of community PAs as "Other effective area-based conservation measures" (OECMs), and mechanisms for their management and operation, as well as the strengthening of state PAs, makes it possible to influence the main threats to biodiversity loss.

    Approaches:

  • Establishment of public PAs by involving local communities to expand PAs, conserve biodiversity, create alternative sources of income and resolve human conflict with nature.
  • Strengthen state PAs through capacity building of staff and implementation of performance improvement tools for core functions and tasks.

Tools:

  • Developing and promoting legislative changes for the establishment of public PAs.
  • Supporting local communities in establishing PAs of different categories and involving activists in the protection of local flora and fauna, training them and providing technical equipment.
  • Public PAs develop a needs-based management plan and budgeting system.
  • Developing a methodology and carrying out functional zoning of public PAs.
  • Biodiversity monitoring: facilitating scientific expeditions to study and record flora and fauna.
  • Development of a state PA management plan based on programme budgeting.
  • Establishment of a revolving fund to ensure the sustainability of public PAs
  • Training and assistance in organising tourism in the territory of public PAs - opening of guesthouses, development of tourist routes.
  • Training and technical assistance in the production of eco-products for sale to tourist.
  • A spatial monitoring and reporting tool for collecting, analysing and sharing wildlife data (SMART).
  • Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT).

Digital tools developed

  • Mobile application on biodiversity monitoring “Tabiyat Kenchi”.