Fauna & Flora International (FFI)
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| Contact details | Fauna & Flora International, 4th Floor, Jupiter House, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2JD, UK Phone: + 44 (0) 1223 571000, Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 461481 E-mail: info@fauna-flora.org |
| Type of organisation | Conservation organisation |
| Organisation's interest | Conservation |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Learning Group member? | Yes |
Description
Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is an international conservation body, founded over 100 years ago. FFI has pioneered sustainable conservation work that tackles problems holistically, providing solutions that simultaneously help wildlife, humans and the environment. FFI endeavours to ensure that its conservation activities do not disadvantage or undermine poor, vulnerable or marginalized people that are dependent upon or live adjacent to natural resources, and wherever possible will seek to conserve biodiversity in ways that enhance local wellbeing and social equity.
Projects
- Securing tenure and the sustainable use of African blackwood (‘mpingo’) for villagers in Kilwa District, Tanzania with FFI’s partners the Mpingo Conservation Project.
- Creating a model for community engagement and incentivising natural resource management to prevent unsustainable destruction of a State Park in Mato Grosso state, one of the richest areas of biodiversity in Brazil.
- Building the capacity of Tibetan Herders to maintain the grasslands on which they are dependent through developing effective resource management plans and securing government support for implementation.
- Influencing national policy decisions and working with local authorities in post-conflict Liberia to ensure that conservation and community needs are taken into account despite pressure from commercial logging and mining interests.
- Improving food security and promoting protection of the Critically Endangered Siamese crocodile, and its habitat, among communities in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains.
FFI has a Conservation, Livelihoods and Governance team, which supports regional programmes to take a holistic, people-centred approach to biodiversity conservation. The team facilitates the capacity development of FFI staff and partners to better understand and address the needs and rights of local communities in their conservation programmes. This is achieved through providing briefing notes, guidelines, tools, training and mentoring to ensure that these issues are taken into account in the contextual analysis, planning and review of our programmes.
FFI has had a long running involvement in great ape conservation and poverty reduction projects in Africa:
• FFI works in the Dja Biosphere Reserve where they focus on community-led law enforcement, to prevent bushmeat logging and mining. Near the Nigeria border they are setting up a community wildlife sanctuary, the first in Cameroon. They are also setting up a Forest Conservation fund, which will fund local development activities.
• FFI works in Haut Niger NP in central Guinea, on a chimpanzee reintroduction project that includes environmental education for local people, and in the Nimba Biosphere Reserve. At Nimba a partnership has been established with the Centre de Gestion de l’Environnement des Monts Nimba et Simandou with the intentions of reconciling conservation goals, mining interests and the livelihood concerns of local communities. The Nimba bushmeat project engages directly with women’s groups to establish a viable system that will allow the trade in wildlife across the region to be monitored and managed.
• FFI ape conservation work in Nigeria is focussed on the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary. Their “Community Management Planning for Sustainable Forest Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation Project” includes work with technology firm Helveta Ltd to develop a Global Positioning System (GPS) mapped forest resource inventory. FFI also recently commissioned a study on the feasibility of habituating cross-river gorillas for tourism.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
People
Helen Schneider
E-mail: Helen.Schneider@fauna-flora.org
Tel: +44 (0)1223 431959
Web URL
http://www.fauna-flora.org/
Related records below this one:
- Disentangling the Links (Document D0240)
- Fauna and Flora International (FFI) - Livelihoods Leaflet n°5 (Document D0206)
- Fauna and Flora International (FFI) - Livelihoods Leaflet n°4 (Document D0205)
- Fauna and Flora International (FFI) - Livelihoods Leaflet n°3 (Document D0204)
- Fauna and Flora International (FFI) - Livelihoods Leaflet n°2 (Document D0203)
- Fauna and Flora International (FFI) - Livelihoods Leaflet n°1 (Document D0202)
- 02 - Wilder&Walpole - Oryx Conservation News - Clare Workshop (Document D0167)
- 06 - Monitoring social impacts of conservation interventions without indicators (Document D0166)
- 11 - Tracking Change - Lessons from FFI’s approach to understanding livelihoods impact (en) (Document D0165)
- 03 - Measuring the impact of livelihoods initiatives in the conservation context (Document D0164)
- Developing a climate risk and opportunities assessment mechanism for conservation projects (Document D0145)
- Influencing International Policy Processes: CITES and Livelihoods (Document D0128)
- International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP), Uganda (Case study C0207)
- CITES and the Livelihoods of the Poor (Biblio B1637)
- Disentangling the Links between Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Practice (Biblio B1622)
- Compendium of Case Studies, Lessons and Recommendations (Biblio B1621)
- Livelihoods and Conservation in Post-conflict and Post-disaster Situations: Learning in Partnership (Biblio B1602)
- Addressing Human Needs in Conservation (Biblio B1601)
- Who is on the Gorilla’s Payroll? Claims on Tourist Revenue From a Ugandan National Park (Biblio B1540)
- The Case for Integrating Conservation and Human Needs (Biblio B1438)
- Partnerships for Conservation and Poverty Reduction (Biblio B1437)
- Should Conservationists Pay More Attention to Corruption? (Biblio B0856)
- The Defence of Conservation Is Not an Attack on the Poor (Biblio B0802)
- Tackling the Root Cause of Tree Loss (Biblio B0687)
- Sustainable Use and Incentive-Driven Conservation: Realigning Human and Conservation Interests (Biblio B0468)
- Offering a Way Out (Biblio B0467)
- Uneconomical Game Cropping in a Community-Based Conservation Project Outside the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania (Biblio B0454)
- Biodiversity and Livelihoods in Eurasia (Biblio B0260)
- Of Crocodiles and Communes (Biblio B0195)
- The Social and Environmental Impacts of Wilderness and Development (Biblio B0130)
- Addressing Livelihood Needs (Biblio B0119)
- To Hear the Gibbons Sing: Why Conservation Matters for Poverty (Biblio B0053)
- Why Poverty Matters for Conservation (Biblio B0010)
- Linking Biodiversity Conservation & Human Needs (Biblio B2019)
- Three decades of deforestation in southwest Sumatra: Effects of coffee prices, law enforcement and rural poverty (Biblio B2100)