
Piloting a Scalable Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Model to Conserve Bugoma Forest Ecosystem
Grantee Name: Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservation Trust
- Hotspot
- Eastern Afromontane
- Location
- Uganda
- Amount
- $108,400
- Dates
- Dec 2017 – Oct 2019
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Buffer zones, Community-based conservation, Freshwater, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Private sector
Engage with communities along the Rutoha River, which flows through the Bugoma Forest – important habitat for chimpanzees – into Lake Albert in Uganda. Enter into contractual relationships with farmers to encourage better riparian corridor management, with the ultimate goal being to foster a buyer-seller relationship between upstream communities and downstream utilities and the private sector.
3 Initiate and support sustainable financing and related actions for the conservation of priority KBAs and corridors.
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