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Restoring the Degraded Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in Buanchor, Boki, Nigeria

Grantee Name: Biakwan Light

Hotspot
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Location
Nigeria
Amount
$29,678
Dates
Aug 2021 – Apr 2022
Keywords
Agriculture, Awareness, Capacity building, Gender, Habitat conservation and management, Land use planning, Reforestation

Develop land use management plans for cluster communities of Buanchor, Katabang and Olom in the Afi Mountail Wildlife Sanctuary (AMWS). Increase community participation in sustainable forest management. Facilitate the establishment, registration and operation of women groups as community-based organizations in these three communities. Restore three degraded hectares of the AMWS by planting 2,000 indigenous tree species.

Strategic Direction :

1 Empower local communities to engage in sustainable management of 40 priority sites and consolidate ecological connectivity at the landscape scale

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