What is it about?
To reverse the decline of two important fish species - the Arowana and the Pirarucu - Conservation International entered into conservation agreements with communities. In return for incentive packages, these communities stopped harvesting these species and helped protect them instead. This paper uses annual population monitoring data to show the impact of the project on these two fish species, demonstrating that conservation agreements effectively help achieve conservation goals.
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Why is it important?
Conservation agreements are a promising tool to achieve a wide range of conservation objectives, with a diversity of stakeholders but especially local communities. Monitoring the ecological impacts of these projects is essential to making the case that governments, organizations and donors should include the conservation agreement model in their toolboxes. This paper shows how in one setting a locally appropriate monitoring framework helped make that case.
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I think one valuable contribution of this paper is to show how practical monitoring efforts can yield information that allows project evaluation as well as effective communication with project stakeholders. Another is to provide a rich example of how the conservation agreement model was tailored to the specific context of this project in the Colombian Amazon.
Eduard Niesten
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This page is a summary of: Assessing the impact of conservation agreements on threatened fish species: a case study in the Colombian Amazon, Oryx, October 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0030605317000953.
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