Bonobo conservation as a means for local development: an innovative local initiative of community-based conservation in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Narat, Victor; Pennec, Flora; Ledo-Bisson, L.; Ngawolo, Jean Christophe Bokika; Dumez, Richard; Krief, Sabrina

doi:10.4172/2167-6801.1000127

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“…As Mistry & Berardi note, these local practices and knowledge can be read in parallel with remote sensing maps, to refine them and to dialogue with local communities in order to co‐develop adaptive and locally acceptable solutions to forest protection. The Congolese NGO Mbou‐Mon‐Tour has achieved considerable support in bonobo and partial forest protection (Narat et al, 2015). We find here that it has also beneficial effects on forest cover, even when people use these forest zones daily.…”

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“…The study site itself, an area of approximately 1200 km 2 (2°27' S 16°14' E; 2°55' S 16°41' E), was defined by the boundaries of village territories managed by the local NGO, Mbou-Mon-Tour (MMT) (Figure 1). Since the early 2000s, MMT has managed a community forest network to promote bonobo (Pan paniscus) conservation and sustainable economic development for human inhabitants (Narat et al, 2015b). In the mid-2000s, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) established a bonobo conservation and a carbon-based project, implementing new land management and natural resource exploitation restrictions and altering local land use practices.…”

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Multidimensional analysis of landscape dynamics in a Central African forest‐savannah mosaic

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Most landscape cover assessments for conservation programmes rely largely on remote sensing analyses. These analyses, however, neglect how people inhabiting protected zones perceive and structure land cover. Using socio-ecological systems (SES) analysis in a forest-savannah mosaic on the Congo Basin forest edge (Democratic Republic of Congo), we investigated how human practices, landscape perceptions and land use patterns affected forest cover. We conducted remote sensing analysis using a Sentinel-2 satellite image and 187 GPS landmarks, producing a land cover map with 11 classes. Our results yielded an 81.85% correspondence with additional 164 GPS landmarks, a robust score in tropical areas. We conducted 40 individual interviews, eighteen focus group discussion workshops and nine months of participant observation of human practices to identify 19 land units and elaborate a granular SES system structuring the landscape. Integrating local knowledge and practices with general ecological and agronomic processes, we developed a landscape dynamics model revealing progressive forest colonisation of savannahs. Our methods demonstrate that a forest-edge landscape cover evaluation through remote sensing and local knowledge can contribute to finer-grained assessment of land cover and ecosystem services. This assessment can assist conservation efforts by considering local populations' practices on and perceptions of landscape change. Résumé La plupart des études de couverture terrestre effectuées dans le cadre de programmes de conservation s'appuient en grande partie sur des analyses basées sur la télédétection. Cependant, ces analyses négligent la façon dont les populations habitant dans les zones protégées perçoivent et structurent la couverture terrestre. À l'aide d'analyses portant sur les systèmes socio-écologiques (SEE) effectuées dans une mosaïque de forêts et de savanes située à la lisière de la forêt du Bassin du Congo (République démocratique du Congo), nous avons étudié la façon dont les pratiques humaines, la perception de la couverture terrestre et la structure de l'utilisation des terres affectait la couverture forestière. Nous avons réalisé une analyse basée sur la télédétection en utilisant une image satellite Sentinel 2 et 187 repères GPS pour produire une carte de la couverture terrestre contenant 11 catégories. Nos résultats ont montré une correspondance de 81.85% avec 164 repères GPS supplémentaires, | 693 DEMICHELIS Et aL.

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Multidimensional analysis of landscape dynamics in a Central African forest‐savannah mosaic

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“…Due to the MMT's long-term efforts in the Mbali area (e.g. Narat et al 2015b), the Nkala forest is protected by the community. Hunting of bonobos is strictly prohibited, though hunting of small animals with traditional methods is permitted.…”

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“…Some research in forest-savanna mosaic environments has been conducted on local ecology (e.g., Serckx et al 2015;Trolliet et al 2016;Pennec et al 2016) and human-bonobo relationships (Inogwabini et al 2013;Narat et al 2015a) in the Mbali area, and also on conservation (Hickey et al 2013) and genetics (Kawamoto et al 2013;Takemoto et al 2017) in Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba (TL2) in the eastern end of bonobo's range (Figure 1). However, studies on bonobos' behavior and society in forest-savanna mosaic environments are extremely limited (but see Druelle et al 2020;Narat et al 2015b).…”

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<Note>Nkala Forest: Introduction of a forest-savanna mosaic field site of wild bonobos and its future prospects

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“…Local people, the Bateke, respect a taboo against eating bonobos and use the forest daily for activities such as slash and burn agriculture, hunting, fishing, and gathering (Narat et al 2015a). The local people participate in a community-based conservation project (Forest Concession of Local Communities of the Mbali River) led by the Congolese NGO Mbou-Mon-Tour and initiated in 2001 in the Bolobo Territory and in 2006 for this village (Narat et al 2015a). As part of this project, villagers have designated areas dedicated to conservation and rules of use in these areas.…”

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Spatiotemporal Variation in Bonobo (Pan paniscus) Habitat Use in a Forest–Savanna Mosaic

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Understanding the ecological and behavioral variation of primates is central to improving conservation strategies. Studies of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have shown marked behavioral variability across a wide range of habitats. By comparison, bonobos (Pan paniscus) occur mainly in continuous forest sites, and socioecological models explaining behavioral differences between the two species are based on the assumption that bonobo habitat is richer and more stable than chimpanzee habitats. The objective of this study was to assess bonobo ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic. We specifically explored 1) bonobo home range size, habitat use, and dietary composition; 2) forest fragmentation in a bonobo community's home range; and 3) seasonality of dietary diversity, habitat use, and spatial distribution. Using 2 years of observational data on location, habitat type, and dietary composition, we found that the bonobo community's home range size, density, and dietary diversity were similar to those observed in continuous forest sites. Bonobos used areas with lower forest fragmentation than the surrounding areas and preferentially spent time in forested habitats. During the dry season, bonobos consumed a lower diversity of fruit species, spent more time in sparse forest with Marantaceae understory, and were closer to the seasonal center of their home range than during the rainy season. Our results contribute to our understanding of behavioral variation in bonobos and suggest that forest-savanna mosaic is valuable to bonobo conservation. Keywords Democratic Republic of the Congo . Forest fragmentation . Habitat use . Home range . Pan paniscus . Spatial analyses

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Bonobo conservation as a means for local development: an innovative local initiative of community-based conservation in Democratic Republic of Congo.

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Multidimensional analysis of landscape dynamics in a Central African forest‐savannah mosaic

Multidimensional analysis of landscape dynamics in a Central African forest‐savannah mosaic

<Note>Nkala Forest: Introduction of a forest-savanna mosaic field site of wild bonobos and its future prospects

Spatiotemporal Variation in Bonobo (Pan paniscus) Habitat Use in a Forest–Savanna Mosaic

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