MOSAIC project

This project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and WWF-US
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A two-pronged approach

The goal of the project is for the forests and rivers of global conservation significance in Quang Nam province to be managed in a way that sustains the social, economic and environmental values of the biodiversity of the Central Truong Son for future generations.

• Implement conservation activities under a provincial plan for biodiversity conservation in the strategic forests of Quang Nam.
• Develop the capacity of local communities and authorities to plan for, manage and monitor natural resources to benefit conservation and sustainable development.

Main activities

• Development of village and community forest and river management systems through institutional capacity building and stakeholder consultation.
• Institutional capacity building of FPD (Forest Protection Department) to enable effective:
  • monitoring of community management systems,
  • biodiversity monitoring and
  • forest crime enforcement.
• Establishment of province-wide conservation education programme, with the strategy based on focal areas, species and issues.
• Protected area management strengthening.
• Encorporating biodiversity conservation into provincial and district planning and action.
• Species conservation through research, training, enforcement and community-based conservation.
  
              For full activities list, see the Activities page

• Consolidation of the current process in priority areas through village, commune and district MOSAIC's.
• Identification of HCVF's.
• Expansion of process into other priority HCVF's.
• Priority species population monitoring.
• Hunting sustainability and mitigation activities & other forest resource management at community level.
• Strengthened wildlife enforcement.
• Institutional support at the local level.
• Local level initiatives to meet agreed conservation targets.