This project is part of a set of initiatives aimed at conserving large wildlife in northern Central African Republic and ensuring its sustainable valorisation through carefully managed trophy-hunting tourism in the interest of Indigenous populations. Paradoxically, the density of wildlife populations today appears to be higher not within northern Central African Republic’s protected areas, but rather in the surrounding sport-hunting zones, where economic operators work with local populations to develop sustainable hunting tourism, mindful of preserving the wildlife resources it depends on and of framing its activities within a local socio-economic development perspective.
The project’s beneficiaries are the economic operators and local communities of the village hunting zones (ZCV) in northern Central African Republic. The project will be managed by APFC, with scientific and technical support from the IGF Foundation, as well as with the ZCV technical committees. The Central African government, through the Directorate of Wildlife and Fisheries, will also take part via the project’s annual steering committee.
– The development of an ecological monitoring protocol adapted to the conditions of the ZCVs in northern Central African Republic, based on existing counting protocols,
– Strengthening the skills and capacities of local stakeholders (hunting operators and local populations) with a view to implementing and following up the ecological monitoring protocol defined by the project.