Improving community well-being

Conservation of wildlife

CAMP Alatoo's Wildlife Conservation program works to implement comprehensive mechanisms to conserve biodiversity, forests and rangelands, and to strengthen local institutions for sustainable and mutually beneficial coexistence between local communities and wildlife sites. Comprehensive mechanisms include blocks such as professional development of for staff of Protected Areas (PAs), creation and piloting of models of public PAs, justification and creation of ecological corridors, development and adaptation of approaches and tools for effective management of state and public PAs, monitoring and conservation of biodiversity, improvement of the legislative base in the field of biodiversity.

The main sources of income for mountain communities are livestock and agriculture, so biodiversity conservation is not always a priority in the use of natural resources. Building and developing capacity for alternative sources of income not only diversifies the income of communities, but also strengthens the activities of PAs.

       Approach:

  • Supporting communities in creating alternative sources of income such as tourism, value chains for dried fruits, berries, livestock products etc.

Tool:

  • Establishing of a revolving fund to ensure the sustainability of public PAs.
  • Training and support for organising tourism on the territory of public PAs - opening guesthouses, developing tourist routes.
  • Training and technical support in the production of ecological products for sale to tourists.