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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.

Strategic Direction :

3 Initiate and support sustainable financing and related actions for the conservation of priority KBAs and corridors.

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