PROJECT OBJECTIVE
The objective is to protect, safeguard, prevent and limit the damage and loss of species and its habitat. We build a model of participatory local stakeholders that appreciate habitat requirements for flagship species and ensure long-term conservation of habitat corridor, through community monitoring.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
- We mobilize local community groups and support government institutions to conduct routine monitoring key species and its habitat. The join team will:
- Implement integrated programs of in-situ and ex-situ flagship species conservation.
- Restore the degraded native forest and establish forest corridor for key species conservation.
- Support captive elephant management with special focus on elephant health care, elephant nutrition, mahout welfare, training for mahouts and local vet/paramedics.
- Support government institutions to handle human-animal conflicts.
- Conduct conservation awareness program to sustain a public mandate for habitat protection.
- Conduct various research and field assessment related to species and habitat protection.
- Transplant and conserve coral reef and sea grass ecosystem as part of blue carbon program.
- Establish and manage Community Patrolling Unit (CPU) for ecosystem conservation.
- Support village government to set-up legal tools (Village Spatial Plan – VSP, Ecosystem Protected Area – EP, and Village Regulation – VR) that support conservation efforts.
COMMUNITY PATROLLING UNIT
Yagasu mobilizes local community groups in the villages to conduct routine patrolling actions. The objectives are to protect, safeguard, prevent and limit the damage of mangrove cover. Before going to the field, the patrolling unit is trained in SOP of patrolling, laws and regulation, and reporting system. The patrolling team will be accompanied by Forest Ranger and Local Police.
The prohibition signboard is put in several strategic locations to warn people not to cut the trees. If there is any specific case, the patrolling team will give verbal warning to the people who break the law and explain the consequences if they violate the law. For the case that seriously breaking the law, the team will report to the Local Police Station to implement law enforcement.
Yagasu facilitates Village government to set-up and maintain Village Policy Initiative that consists of Village Spatial Plan (VSP), Mangrove Protection Area (MPA) and Village Regulation VR), as a legal tool for long-term Carbon conservation.
The process of designing VSP and MPA will involve the community in participatory mapping.
The document will be approved by the Village Leader and then endorsed by the District.
CORAL REEF CONSERVATION
Supported by SEE (Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology) Foundation from China, we conducted an integrated coastal and marine conservation project in East Java – Indonesia. We conduct coral reef transplantation, turtle breeding program and sea biota conservation, as part of blue carbon program. The carbon accumulation of sea grass meadows is under exploration.
Plantation for Coral Reef Conservation
