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Adapting to a Changing Environment

West African Bird Study Association

Serekunda, Gambia

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
Ecosistema
Deserts
Deserts
Forests
Forests
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
Tipo de comunidad
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Africa
General Info

Dirección

Abuko Nature Reserve PMB 676
Serekunda
Gambia

Correo electrónico

kunowabsa@yahoo.com
Problem

Población impactada

300000

Size

257Km

Ocupaciones principales

Fishing and farming

Recursos locales de los que depende la comunidad y con qué propósito

Fishing and Agricultural Produces like groundnut, rice and millet are the main local resource the community depends on, the purpose is for feeding and commercial to earner income to support their family education, medication etc.

Amenazas locales a los recursos

Over farming and cattle grazing, invasion of Locust and erosion. Using of bad net fishing, cutting of mangrove.

Riesgos climáticos

Desertification

Nivel de sensibilidad

Whenever there is a desert there will be less rain fall an it will be affect the community produce

Nivel de capacidad adaptativa

Reforestation such as mangrove regeneration and tree planting in the forest and national park
Solution

? Diversified or alternative livelihoods To support local communities livelihoods projects such as Bee keeping, fishing board, woodlots and gardens so as to abandon the ecosystem . ? Improved food security : By conduct mangrove planting to improve the fish breeding area and establish aquaculture, were the soft projects to support the ecosystem

Results

Costos ecológicos

-Protect of natural resource

Beneficio ecológico

-Abundance of resource

Indicadores económicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

-Sustainable mangrove ecosystem

Costo comunitario/social

- Conflict between those with fishing rights and those who don?t have them

Beneficio comunitario/social

-Increase awareness and support for sustainable fisheries management

Indicadores comunitarios/sociales utilizados para medir el beneficio

- Sources of income

Costo económico

- Job training - Cost of community meetings (with amount)

Beneficio económico

- Additional income

Indicadores ecológicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

- Community reports

What were/are the challenges your community faced in implementing this solution?

The challenges are lack of technical know how lack of resources How to overcome WABSA will raise funds to build the capacity of the local community and give them such project to boast their income. If solutions were in place there will be no risks because their capacity will be raise .

Action

Describa el proceso basado en la comunidad utilizado para desarrollar la solución, incluidas las herramientas y los procesos utilizados.

WABSA and Wildlife Department conduct mangrove assessment in the north bank region with the local community. The local communities own their resource so any activity or decision making they most be involve. The partners were community development, Wildlife and forestry Department. The roles of the community development is to mobilize communities, wildlife and forestry are to sensitizes the local communities. Length of implementation. Depend on the project term. West African Bird Study Association is responsible for the managements and coordination of the project

Peligro climático de preocupación

Drought

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege el ecosistema afectado?

The ecosystem need to be protect from exploitation which is main cause by natural or anthropogenic the best way is to plant more mangroves stump and indigenous seedling to protect the ecosystem

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

To plant mangroves in the degraded area will help to adapt potential climate change .and also to plant more tree seedling in identified potential side.

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege a las comunidades afectadas?

Local community involvement in the protection of the ecosystem through sensitization and by laws place

¿Cómo su solución reduce la sensibilidad de las comunidades afectadas?

Reforestations of degraded areas affected

¿Cómo ha aumentado su solución la capacidad de las comunidades locales para adaptarse a posibles cambios climáticos?

Involve the local communities in workshop and sensitization in related to climate issues

Scale

¿Se puede replicar esta solución en otros lugares?

Yes it can be replicated . factor to make it successful are to conduct side identification to know the areas to be replicated and sensitization to the local communities about the project coming.It has not yet been replicate to new side. Obviously it can be new solution to the local communities because some of them have never experience this convenience

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