Rare, with local partners around the world, will launch 29 conservation campaigns this fall. These campaigns focus on direct threats including marine issues, illegal logging, and shorebird migration, just to name a few. Now, just in the beginning training phase of the Rare Pride program, we give you a glimpse of each campaign: what conservation issues the various campaigns are targeting, and how they plan to spread pride and preserve conservation.
INDONESIA & MALAYSIA
Marine
1. Tun Mustapha Marine Park, Malaysia
Empower communities to create locally managed marine protected areas to give local fishermen control over marine resources and restrict outside fishermen from using destructive fishing practices, while simultaneously teaching alternative fishing techniques to produce higher and more sustainable fish yield.
Shifting Cultivation
2. Lamandau River Wildlife Reserve, Indonesia
Stop shifting cultivation practices by local farmers by introducing environmentally-friendly, permanent agriculture and agroforesty systems in order to protect the reserve, an important habitat for the Bornean Orangutan.
3. Dolok Surungan Wildlife Reserve, Indonesia
Introduce alternative income sources, such as nature tourism, to prevent shifting cultivation and plantation causing loss of important forest habitat for Sumatran tigers.
4. Batang Toru Forest, Indonesia
Stop shifting cultivation practices by local farmers by introducing environmentally-friendly, permanent agriculture and agroforesty systems in order to protect the reserve, an important habitat for the Sumatran Orangutan.
Oil Palm Conversion
5. Sungai Putri, Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia
Prevent further selling and conversion of forest area into oil palm plantations by working with local farmers and oil palm plantation companies to adopt agroforestry systems; preserving the park as an ecological corridor and refuge for Bornean orangutans.
6. Rawa Tripa Swamp Forest, Indonesia
Prevent further selling and conversion of forest area into oil palm plantations by working with local farmers and oil palm plantation companies to adopt agroforestry systems; preserving the park as an ecological corridor and refuge for Bornean orangutans.
Illegal Logging & Fuelwood Collection
7. Geumpang Forest, Ulu Masen Forest Complex, Indonesia
Introduce community-based forest management and agroforestry systems to stop illegal logging by local farmers of important forest habitat for many endangered Sumatran species, including the orangutan, tiger and elephant.
8. Besitang Forest, Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia
Strengthen and introduced alternative livelihoods, such as agroforestry systems, to stop illegal logging and maintain this UNESCO World Heritage Site, an important habitat for the Sumantran orangutan.
9. Bali Barat National Park, Indonesia
Reduce fuelwood collection by local community that destroys park by introducing cost-effective, fuel-efficient stoves; developing fuelwood gardens reducing dependence on natural forest; and organic farming systems offering higher and more sustainable products for local people.
10. Ujung Kulon National Park, Indonesia
Prevent further forest fragmentation within this World Heritage Site, caused by local community agriculture encroachment and small-scale logging, by introducing more productive and permanent agriculture system to help protect world’s last remaining population of Javan rhinos.
11. Halimun-Salak National Park, Indonesia
Strengthen and introduced alternative livelihoods, such as agroforestry systems, to stop illegal logging and maintain this important habitat for the Javan eagle.
LATIN AMERICA
Destructive/Illegal Fishing
12. Biosphere Reserve Isla San Pedro Martir, Mexico
Train and mentor fishermen in sustainable practices, such as respecting no-take zones and illegal species, to reduce over fishing threats posed to local marine habitats and species.
13. Loreto Bay National Park, Mexico
Train and mentor fishermen in sustainable practices, such as respecting no-take zones and illegal species, to reduce over fishing threats posed to local marine habitats and species.
Unsustainable Agriculture
14. IBA Central de Veracruz, Mexico
Encourage landowners to join a network of private reserves that maintain forest cover on their land, in exchange for receiving ecosystem services payments, to reduce land clearing expansion and habitat loss caused by extensive livestock and unsustainable agriculture practices.
Waste Management
15. PN Cañon del Sumidero, Mexico
Reduce solid waste disposal and accumulation in the Griialva river by engaging local municipalities in providing appropriate collection and recycling services, and introducing appropriate waste disposal practices (official disposal sites, schedules, and recycling separation) to the community.
Fires
16. RB Ria Lagartos, Mexico
Improve community fire management practices, such as creating firebreaks, and teach sustainable livestock practices (live fencing, sustainable grass production, etc.) to reduce the number of forest fires and amount of land cleared for livestock.
17. APRN Rio Ameca, Mexico
Improve community fire management practices, such as creating firebreaks, and teach sustainable livestock practices (live fencing, sustainable grass production, etc.) to reduce the number of forest fires and amount of land cleared for livestock.
18. Biosphere Reserve La Sepultura, Mexico
Reduce pine-oak forest destroyed by uncontrolled forest fires, by implementing fire management practices (calendars, community plans, natural fences, etc.) and introducing sustainable production alternatives, such as organic agriculture and sustainable grass production.
Migratory/Shorebirds
19. San Quintin Bay, Mexico
Regulate unsustainable urban development and unplanned land use through creation of a Natural Protected Area, to eliminate principal threats to coastal wetlands and endangered, endemic species (especially migratory birds).
20. San Antonio Oeste Bay, Argentina
Designate special zones in the bay for residents and tourists to drive 4x4 vehicles, and implement fines and law enforcement for infractions, in order to reduce disturbances caused to the endangered Red Knot.
21. Costa Atlántica-Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Preserve important feeding and resting stop for migratory shorebirds, endangered species (Red Knot, Hudsonian Godwit, etc.), and other neotropical shorebirds, by eradicating irregular solid waste disposal causing soil and habitat deterioration, and introducing appropriate disposal practices (official disposal sites, schedules, and separation).
22. Estuary Rio Gallegos, Argentina
Preserve important feeding and resting stop for migratory shorebirds, endangered species (Red Knot, Hudsonian Godwit, etc.), and other neotropical shorebirds, by eradicating irregular solid waste disposal causing soil and habitat deterioration, and introducing appropriate disposal practices (official disposal sites, schedules, and separation).
CHINA
Illegal Logging/Fuelwood Collection
23. Dashanbao Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China
Prevent further digging of peat wetlands for fuel, which destroys wintering habitat for black-necked cranes in Yunnan Dashanbao Black-Necked Cranes National Nature Reserve, by introducing methane gas as fuel in 20 homes and replanting 300 hectares of wetlands.
24. Baima Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China
Reduce excessive local consumption of fuelwood posing habitat threats to the endangered Yunnan golden monkey by implementing alternative energy measures, developing village regulations, and closing forests for re-forestation.
25. Meili Mountain, Yunnan Province, China
Reduce excessive local consumption of fuelwood posing habitat threats to the endangered Yunnan golden monkey by implementing alternative energy measures, developing village regulations, and closing forests for re-forestation.
26. Yuhe Nature Reserve, China
Introduce fuel-efficient stoves, biogas, and financial support to reduce the community’s dependence on fuelwood, which is the principal threat posed to the Golden monkey’s habitat.
27. SEE (Zuo League)
Prevent over collection of Haloxylon ammodendron shrub (an important plant in preventing desertification), by providing alternate income options for farmers, such as organic production and renewable energy technologies, while also improving supervision of public management systems.
Tourism
28. Gaoligong Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, China
Standardize tourism behavior in Nature Reserve to reduce human interference of white-eyebrowed gibbon, and standardize under-forest planting to produce tsaoko fruit (related to the ginger root) to sell as a tourism product, increasing income alternatives for the local community.
Illegal Hunting
29. Hunchun Nature Reserve, Jilin Province, China
Reduce poaching of endemic and endangered Siberian tigers by providing alternate sources of income, such as microcredits and food production, while increasing anti-poaching enforcement and advocacy within reserve surroundings.
