5. Community Conservation, Environmental education & Ecotourism

Image 20. Cutting of bamboo for the enrichment of Putty-nosed monkey enclosure. Image 21. Final view of visual barrier in the Putty-nosed monkey enclosure.

November 2021 objectives

□ Finish Mantum’s group maintenance (postponed) □ Finish the Gorilla’s splitting enclosure

5. Community Conservation, Environmental education & Ecotourism

Funders

Activities

□ School outreach programme: Started the 2021-2022 programme: 9 schools, 31 classes, and 1800 school children; monthly efforts: 36 men.hours

□ Saturday Nature Club: Postponed until 2022

□ Art4Nature: Completed the 5 animated videos (Image 22)

□ Art4Nature: Continued to produce billboards, posters, and radio podcasts to

promote forest ecosystem preservation.

□ Green project: Organised a community engagement workshop in Batoke to discuss

the situation on the ground, the difficulties community members are facing (COVID-

19 panemic), and maintaining the support to the community-based green project during the pandemic crisis; attendance: 70 persons (incl. 65% women farmers and 23% children from the community) (next page)

□ Green project: 52 community members benefited from the Community-based Green

Economy; 15 ex-hunter members sustainably harvesting wild herbaceous plants: 733 kg of Aframomum stems and 657 kg of Costus stems; 37 women members harvesting crop by-product: 678 kg of cassava leaves, 4225 kg of papaya leaves, 2075 kg of potato leaves, 309 kg of invasive Trumpet wood shoots, corresponding to 69 trees hand-cut; 911,495 FCFA (€1,392) paid directly to the local community association this month; 9,964,155 FCFA (€15,212) contributed to alleviate local poverty in 2021.

Image 22. Series of images extracted from the 5 videos of the Art4Nature project sponsored by the UNESCO. 4 countries of Central Africa (Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic) are represented among 5 topics: Wealth of the Congo Basin Forest, Deforestation, Illegal Pet Trade, Zoonosis, and Youth are the Future.

November 2021 objectives

□ Continue with ongoing programs