The project: Conservation café!

Mr. Hai wants to get the message out to local people

Gibbon& Douc
(Gibbon funded by the USFWS, Douc by the Margot Marsh BiodiversityFoundation)

• Train forest rangers in primate survey and population census techniques.
• Establish an accurate picture of sub-population distribution.
• Establish monitoring programmes for key sub-populations.
• Investigate the taxonomic issues of primates.
• Identify sites for provincial douc and gibbon sanctuaries and assess the most appropriate management system.
• Raise awareness of the status of primates among local communities and policy makers.
• Incorporate primates as a priority species into provincial-wide conservation planning and implementation.

Saola

• Collect information on the distribution, status and ecology of the saola in Quang Nam province through interview and field surveys, and the use of camera-traps.
• Identify and quantify the threats to the saola through interview surveys and snare counts, and recommend appropriate mitigation measures to provincial, district and community stakeholders.
• Establish, train and motivate a Quang Nam Saola Conservation Team (SCT) comprised of four community members and two forest rangers.
• Increase community awareness for saola conservation through the SCTs.
• Establish a provincial 'Saola Conservation Area' co-managed by local Ka Tu communities.

• Biological surveys to establish ecological requirements of the two endemic and threatened species: golden-winged laughingthrush and black-crowned barwing.
• 3D model to delimit the most appropriate reserve boundary - Ngoc Linh proposed Nature Reserve.
• Provincial discussions on the establishment of the reserve.
• Conservation needs assessment.
• Community liaison and forest management action plans.

Tiger (funded by USFWS)

• Establish a coordinated, strategic landscape scale programme of conservation interventions in the Central Annamites.
• Increase the effectiveness of enforcement within both protected areas and the non-protected area matrix.
• Obtain sufficient information on tiger populations and their threats to facilitate efficient and effective tiger conservation and project monitoring.
  
  

(funded by WWF-US and MacArthur Foundation)

• Establishment of a provincial working group on wildlife law enforcement.
• Analysis of current strengths and weaknesses.
• Development of provincial wildlife law enforcement strategy.
• Patrol and wildlife trade training.
• Establishment of tiger enforcement team.
• Increased field enforcement efforts.
• Wildlife trade survey.
  
  

(funded by WWF-US and MacArthur Foundation)

• Conservation needs assessment.
• Development of management and operational plans.
• Assistance with establishing basic infrastructure (ranger stations etc).
• Management, conservation biology, community outreach and enforcement training.
• Establishing links with other PAs (Protected Areas) in the Annamites.
• Boundary re-design to reduce community conflicts.
• Establishment of 'Village Protection Teams'.
• Community outreach.
• Effective zonation with community co-managed zones.
• Logo competition.
• Ka Tu language lessons for rangers.
  
  

(Funded by the Rufford Foundation)

• Established a provincial conservation education working group comprising 17 government departments.
• Training of working group members so they can train, motivate and assign CE tasks to their staff.
• Conservation café in Hoi An to promote Vietnam’s natural heritage to visitors and promote good practice eco-tourism activities.