Numba Wachokkeri: Empowering Indigenous peoples to protect their forests with cutting-edge technology

Acronym

P_NUMBA

Consortium Coordinator

Saito Villanueva, Carlos

Start Date

December 13, 2018

End Date

December 13, 2020

Status

https://purl.org/pe-repo/concytec/estadoProyecto#concluido

Description

The Peruvian Amazon is an iconic landscape with high biodiversity and cultural heritage. Within this region lies the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR) that protects over 690,000 hectares of tropical forest and the native indigenous communities inhabiting it. Additionally, this reserve also connects other important conservation areas, including Manu National Park, Madre de Dios Indigenous Territorial Reserve, Tambopata National Reserve, and Bahuaja-Sonene National Park. ACR has an unique management structure, in which the Peruvian National Park Service (SERNANP) co-manage the reserve with an elected indigenous-based organization known as the Executor of the Administrative Contract of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ECA-Amarakaeri). Together, they have established a control and surveillance system to protect t The use of remote sensing technology, including drones and satellite imagery, are tools that can increase the effectiveness of monitoring efforts and improve the response to threats in a timely manner, while safeguarding the integrity of patrolling members. Therefore, the overall goal of this project is to develop complementary actions for the control and surveillance system of the ACR by using cutting-edge technology. To meet this goal, we propose to: 1) improve and develop current drone technology to overcome barriers in challenging tropical environments; and 2) transfer this technology to achieve the sustainable implementation of effective surveillance and control actions. We will develop the present drone technology to overcome the environmental barriers. Then, we will transfer this knowledge to the indigenous communities so they can incorporate it to their control and surveillance actions and increase the effectiveness to reduce the impacts of extractive activities in the ACR. Finally, we expect that the near-real-time knowledge of the advance of illegal activities, through technology, will result in better decisions for effective co-management.

Keywords

Conservación comunitaria

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Pueblos indígenas

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Monitoreo forestal

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Tecnologías geoespaciales

Área de conocimiento

Natural sciences

Campo OCDE

https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.13