Ekuri Initiative

Summary

This project focuses on the conservation and sustainable management of the Ekuri Community forests.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

To provide two villages (with a population of 6,000 inhabitants) with the support and assistance needed to ensure sustainable harvest of timber, vegetables, rattans, and other products from community forests.

How will this project solve this problem?

Forest inventory training; Tree harvesting and conversion; Taxation of forest products and management of funds; Support innovative and sustainable harvesting of timber, vegetables, rattans, and other products from the Ekuri community forest

Potential Long Term Impact

Reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity through sustainable harvesting, processing and sale of timber and non-timber forest products from Ekuri community land and through the sale and marketing of resulting products.

Project Message

The sustainable harvesting of timber and non-timber forest products, resulting from stock surveys and assessment techniques is a means of exploiting local resources without destroying them.
- Sean Southey, UNDP's Equator Initiative Manager

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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