Lac Télé – Lac Tumba Swamp Forest Landscape

Land Use Planning

Hugo RaineyDirector, Lac Télé Community Reserve ProjectWildlife Conservation Society – Congo Program

Partnership

Principal partners• WCS• WWF• Pact• USAID-CARPE

Additional partners• CFC• Mbou-mon-tour• INCEF• WFC

Stakeholders

Collaborators• MEFE• ICCN• DRC Ministry• Ramsar• University of Marien-

Ngouabi• Min of Health – ROC• UNHCR

• Communities –including women, indigenous people, refugees

• Local authorities – nat res managers (MEFE, ICCN), security forces

• Logging companies• Livestock ranchers• Oil concessionaires

Community participation

• Participative mapping of community territories

• Identification of customary laws

• Monitoring of fisheries and hunting offtake

• Incorporation of comm mgmt plans into zone mgmt plans

Governments

International management

• Technical meeting IDed approaches for a cross-border agreement

• Inter-governmental meeting planned for 2007

National govts• Close collaboration at

all levels (site and national managers)

• Policy and management discussions

• Joint management planning

Development of local capacity

Local NGOs and govts• Supporting local NGOs in

small grants, other donors

• Direct finance to NGOs• Training• Technical and logistical

support• Increasing capacity of

local NGOs with goal of Ls partner status over 5 years

Development of local capacity

Communities• Identification of minorities• Support of women’s

groups and increased role in decision-making

• Monitoring resource use• Creation of new CBNRM

zones and plans including improved alt livelihoods

• Legal status of zone man plans

Unique value of landscape

• Swamp forest in 90% of landscape

• Largest wetland in Africa• Huge hydrological value

for communities and biodiversity

• Strategic importance for electricity generation

• High fish biodiversity• Three species of great

apes at high density – unique in the world

Unique value (cont.)

• Relatively low human density

• Indigenous people have traditional system of nat res management

• Post-war development opportunity

• Swamp forest limits hunting but transport along rivers to towns

• Logging limited to terra firma

• Limited existing oil exploration

Landscape characteristics

New PAs: Réserve Tumba-Lediima and Ntokou Pikounda

PAs & CBNRMs

4%

Unzoned96%

2006

PAs & CBNRMs

12%

Unzoned88%

2007

Draft Desired Conditions1. Stable or recovering fisheries

to ensure livelihoods of comms and ecosystem function

2. Established sustainable comm management of nat res to limit external exploitation and maximise local social benefit.

3. Stable or recovering ape and elephant populations

4. Improved local NGO and national govt capacity

5. Effective regulations to limit road construction and forest fragmentation

6. Effective application of national wildlife laws

Draft Landscape objectives• Zoning of landscape• Management plans

(strategy docs) across Ls and all zones

• Improved and integrated comm participative mgmt

• Monitoring and mgmt of fisheries and bushmeat

• Monitoring and conservation of large mammal popns

• Inventory of poorly known taxa – fish, birds, etc.

• Increased financial input by govts to manage wildlife and nat res

• Increased training of, support for, partnership with local NGOs & stakeholders

• Collaboration with ERZ concessionaires

• Improved regulations to reduce fragmentation of forest cover

• Intergovernmental Ls agreement

Zoning program• New PAs and

CBNRMs• Coordination with

MEFE, ICCN, Ramsar et al

• Ongoing data collection

Data collection – minimum dataSocio-economique Niveau de precisions

Demographie Nombre de communautesStructure communautaire Ethnicite et nationalite, minorites, femmesActivites economiquesActivites de subsistenceCentre economique Marches, villes et villages, suivi du bushmeatVoies de transport Routes, rivieres navigables, ports, aeroportsInfrastructure sociale Ecoles, hopitaux, egliseCasernes militairesPlantations Histoires, distribution actuellePressions sur ressources naturelles Chasse, peche, agriculture non-durableExtraction de bois subsistence

Envrionnement Niveau de precisions

Identifier les zones d'importance et migration pour la faune

Grands mammiferes, inventaire de poissons, zones importantes pour les oiseaux (ZICO)

Etat de la flore Habitats et especes clesEtat de la vegetation Taux de changement du couvert forestier, feuxClimat Meteo, niveau d'eau (lacs et inondations)Especes alienes Presence de chaque especeEspeces protegees et menaceesRelief, lacs et cours d'eauZone miniere et petroliere Y compris zone potentielle