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Private Sector Engagement

In Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, we are working in partnership with Kamba Africa, a Congo-based company with international backing and pioneering tourism expertise in Central Africa, to develop a tourism program aimed at creating sustainable income for the Park and economic opportunities for its neighboring communities.

We bring to Kamba Africa our knowledge of the Park and its ecosystems, so that together we can develop a high-value, low-impact tourism offer. A benefit-sharing model will deliver at least a steep increase in tourism revenue going to local communities through the Village Development Fund. To ensure that Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities can take advantage of tourism opportunities we have initiated training programs to equip them with the skills they need, such as English, hospitality, guiding, etc.

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By diversifying the livelihoods of people involved in the bushmeat value chain and increasing poultry production, we plan to reduce dependence on hunting as a source of protein and create sustainable alternatives in the periphery.

Our support for the poultry industry involves a partnership with the World Poultry Foundation to facilitate the implementation of its African Poultry Multiplication Initiative (APMI) model. The APMI model aims to strengthen the private sector by providing farmers with the keys to a profitable poultry industry, notably through extensive training and the introduction of private veterinary services and a new breed of chicken, more productive and more resistant to disease.

The APMI model ultimately reduces chicken production costs by at least 33%, while optimizing benefits for producers

Since 1999, the WCS has spearheaded an innovative partnership with the Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB), which operates forestry concessions spread over 1.3 million ha, in a strategic area linking the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park and the Lac Télé Community Reserve. With the support of the CIB, we have been able to extend our conservation efforts to areas crucial to alleviating anthropogenic pressure on wildlife, by supporting law enforcement, improved community-led management of hunting stocks and the application of best practices in extractive industries.

Our joint efforts have enabled CIB to obtain FSC certification for all the concessions concerned, while maintaining satisfactory protection of biodiversity, and in particular stable populations of large mammals, as attested by wildlife inventories of the landscape since 2006.

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