Protected Areas (PA) establishment and management
- Establishment of three national parks Lobéké, Boumba-Bek and Nki covering about 760,000 hectares of forest
- Designation of Lobeke national park as a Gift to the Earth (GTTE) with Lobéké National Park already GTTE
- Management and business plans for Lobeke national park approved by government
- Creation and launching of a management committee for Lobeke National Park
- Establishment of 14 community hunting areas around national parks for community use
- Development of an ecological monitoring program to monitor key bio-indicators and trends
- Participatory mapping of use areas of Baka pygmies in national parks and surrounding forest areas
- 32,000 hectares community zone demarcated in Lobeke National Park
- Training and recruitment of 43 game guards to support anti-poaching and surveillance operations
- Building management and communications infrastructure for the three national parks
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
- Accompanying logging companies in Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification process. 314655 ha of forest already certified while 130,000ha are in the pipeline
- Wildlife inventories and socio economic studies completed in a number of concessions to promote good forest management practices
- Training of workers of logging companies in reduce impact logging techniques, use of monitoring tools and inventory techniques
- Logging companies signed MOUs with WWF for technical assistance to promote Certification and good forest management practices
- Network for forest technicians established to promote capacity building and information sharing in certification and forest management
- Production of 5 management plans for community forests
- Participatory land use planning and approval of 22 logging concessions, 14 community wildlife zones and 4 community forest zones within project area
