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This IKI Small Grants project addresses biodiversity conservation and climate resilience in Western and Southern Mongolia, which is home to the second largest population of snow leopards in the world. Community lands have little protection and are at high risk of biodiversity loss from poaching, mining, and large infrastructure, threatening communities that rely on this land for livelihood. The project helps to reinforce the land rights of 33 communities. It sets up and operationalises legally supported and government-accredited Community Responsible Areas (CRAs) to conserve snow leopard habitats. It assists communities in sustainably managing lands for pastoral production and biodiversity conservation. After legal recognition, the communities receive long-term assistance in diversifying their livelihoods and protecting and monitoring wildlife.
Advancing community rights in Malaysia’s biodiversity, climate change and physical planning policies
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Although indigenous customary land rights are recognised in Malaysia, the state often limits them as a form of user rights and unilaterally determines their boundaries, without the issuance of documents. Thus, logging and land development operations often encroach upon such territories, which include forests. Meanwhile, fisher communities are threatened by unsustainable fishing practices and land reclamation, which destroy coastal and marine ecosystems. The IKI Small Grants project develops policy and legal reform proposals that integrate the protection of community rights into the protection of these ecosystems, which can counteract the violations of both community and environmental rights, in support of national biodiversity and climate change policies. The project targets ten indigenous and six fisher communities and conducts information campaigns to encourage local and national decision-makers to support these proposed reforms on community rights and natural resource management.
Community-based monitoring of biodiversity and forests of Vanuatu
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Vanuatu is one of the regions most affected by climate change in the world. Effective management of Community Conservation Areas has been identified as pivotal for area-based approaches to protect key biodiversity species and for supporting sustainable livelihoods in a changing climate. The IKI Small Grants project introduces community-based monitoring in Vanuatu’s community protected areas, based on a mobile app for local rangers, thus improving national biodiversity and forest observation. The project creates added value by further developing and testing a ranger tool kit and app, introducing these tools in the protected areas and feeding the results into national monitoring systems. With the local communities as well as national government institutions and environmental NGOs involved, all relevant target groups are addressed and their participation in sustainable land use planning is supported.
Conservation valuation of Sri Lanka's landscapes in relation to major taxonomic groups
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Sri Lanka has been identified as one of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots, with ad-hoc decisions in land use planning increasingly threatening the country’s biological diversity and aggravating the severe impacts of natural disasters, such as floods and landslides. The IKI Small Grants project aims to protect Sri Lanka’s important habitats and ecosystems by enabling informed, science-based decision making in land use planning. In cooperation with national experts and government agencies, the project creates an index to identify critical habitats across the country and integrates it into land use planning databases at all scales. To further improve decision-making processes, the project provides policymakers with guidelines and decision trees. It promotes the integration of conservation areas into development plans. Therefore, it contributes to minimising the detrimental impacts on the environment and to enhancing the societal benefits provided by ecosystems for human well-being.
Support for the Forest Climate Leaders Partnership
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At the COP 27 climate negotiations, the President of Ghana and leaders from 25 countries and the EU launched the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP). Ghana and the US will co-chair the partnership, which aims to enhance cooperation, scale ambitions, and find solutions to forest management challenges. This was in fulfilment of the landmark declaration made at COP26 in Glasgow to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. The FCLP will seek to provide ways to facilitate and, in some cases, enhance cooperation on the delivery of pledges made in Glasgow. The partnership will also scale ambitions and help find innovative solutions to ongoing challenges in managing forests and forest resources. The IKI contribution supports the FCLP Secretariat and therefore the efforts to coordinate and successfully implement the partnership with a focus on supporting the participating developing countries.