Mitigating ofconflicts over natural resources

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.

The shared use of natural resources by different categories of stakeholders, such as grazing and forest users, hunting enterprises, and secondary users, often leads to competition that creates conflicts over resources. There are also conflicts between people and nature, such as competition for food between wild and domestic animals, or predation on livestock. Integrating conflict management activities into the management plans of PAs, rangeland and forest users reduces the potential for conflict and its possible consequences.

      Approach:

  • Joint management of rangelands and wildlife through the development of integrated PAs management plans and their implementation.

Tool:

  • Identification of hunting enterprises using grazing land in pilot areas aiyl aimaks.
  • Integrate hunting enterprise plans and wildlife migration routes into rangeland management plans through participatory planning.
  • Creating a platform for dialogue between rangeland users and hunting enterprises, involving the Council of Aksakals (Elders) as holders of traditional knowledge.