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Adapting to a Changing Environment

West African Bird Study Association

Serekunda, Gâmbia

An Overview Of Our Solution

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

Endereço

Abuko Nature Reserve PMB 676
Serekunda
Gâmbia

E-mail

kunowabsa@yahoo.com
Problem

População impactada

300000

Tamanho

257Km

Principais ocupações

Fishing and farming

Recursos locais dos quais a comunidade depende e com que finalidade

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.

Ameaças locais aos recursos

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

Perigos climáticos

Desertification

Nível de sensibilidade

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

Nível de capacidade 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

Custos Ecológicos

-Protect of natural resource

Benefício Ecológico

-Abundance of resource

Indicadores Econômicos usados para medir o benefício

-Sustainable mangrove ecosystem

Custo comunitário/social

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

Benefício Social/Comunitário

-Increase awareness and support for sustainable fisheries management

Indicadores comunitários/sociais usados para medir o benefício

- Sources of income

Custo Econômico

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

Benefício económico

- Additional income

Indicadores Ecológicos usados para medir o benefício

- Community reports

Quais foram/são os desafios que sua comunidade enfrentou na implementação desta solução?

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

Descreva o processo baseado na comunidade usado para desenvolver a solução, incluindo ferramentas e processos usados

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

Perigo climático preocupante

Drought

Como sua solução reduz a exposição e amortece/protege o ecossistema afetado?

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.

Como sua solução reduz a exposição e amortece/protege as comunidades afetadas?

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

Como sua solução reduz a sensibilidade das comunidades afetadas?

Reforestations of degraded areas affected

Como sua solução aumentou a capacidade das comunidades locais de se adaptarem a possíveis mudanças climáticas?

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

Scale

Esta solução pode ser replicada em outro lugar?

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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