Pacific Conservation Database
EU/AFD: Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme
PIRT Member organisations
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Other partner organisations
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Centre de coopération nternationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Countries of implementation
Papua New Guinea
About
Promoting sustainable wildlife consumption for both cultural materials and animal source food at a rural village level; assessing sustainability of wildlife harvest through monitoring hunter offtake and target species population size; promoting the creation of community-led natural resource management plans; extending the life of wildlife derived cultural materials; shifting rural protein consumption from bush-meat to mini-livestock ensuring nutrition security and diet enrichment; preserving intangible culture by promoting intergenerational transmission of native languages and traditional knowledge of nature.
Framework Action Tracks
01 – Our people at the centre of conservation action, 02 – Behaviour change for nature conservation through heritage and cultural expressions, 04 – Sustainable and resilient island economies, 05 – Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to sustain our social-ecological systems, 09 – Effective terrestrial protected areas, 10 – Terrestrial ecological integrity, 12 – Reducing threats to threatened and migratory terrestrial species, 19 – Science and traditional knowledge for target-setting and monitoring, 20 – Governance that works for nature conservation
Status
Ongoing