Green Groups conducted an outreach session to students at the Prek Leap National Institute of Agriculture in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as part of a social and behavior change communication (SBCC) campaign to protect the region's wildlife by encouraging people to reduce buying and eating bushmeat.
One of Green Future’s strategic approaches is to promote youth as leaders in biodiversity conservation and forest protection by establishing Green Groups that serve as a key forum for facilitating conversations and action planning among youth on the project's three themes and other top environmental issues. After receiving SBCC toolkit training on the three themes, Green Groups conduct SBCC toolkit sharing and outreach sessions with peers in their schools and communities as well as promote the three themes’ campaign and other environmental messages.
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Samedy Oeur, a popular social media influencer, explored Prey Lang in Kampong Thom, Cambodia and informed his fans of the benefits of forests, especially of how resin is collected from trees to support local peoples' livelihoods. Prey Lang, located in Kratie, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom, and Preah Vihear, Cambodia is one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots.
Green Group youth members and a locally established trash youth team collected trash at the Kirirom National Park, Kampong Speu province, Cambodia, to celebrate 2022 World Cleanup Day in an effort to protect environment and enhance beauty of Cambodia, especially to share a message for people to bring back their trash after visiting a tourism site.
Green Group youth participated in a study tour to learn about forest conservation and protection at the Elephant Valley Project in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia.
The Vulture Restaurant at Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary/Toul Kaamnob Ranger Station, Stung Treng province, Cambodia, where there are around 70 vultures who eat carcasses and where the Rising Phoenix team provides food (at least one or two cows or buffaloes) to those vultures every week.
In an atelier in Kirundo Province, Northern Burundi, members of the Batwa community are making improved cookstoves. These cooking systems are more efficient, emit fewer missions, and are safer than traditional ones. Building a market of improved cookstoves to shift to a more sustainable cooking system is a crucial component of AVSI’s UMUCO W’ITERAMBERE project. Funded by the European Union, the project improves the living conditions of rural communities in Burundi by providing them with access to a more efficient and durable energy system.
A woman lights an improved cookstove in front of her house in Kirundo Province, Northern Burundi. These cooking systems are more efficient, emit less emissions, and are safer than the traditional ones. Building a market of improved cookstoves to shift to a more sustainable cooking system is a crucial component of AVSI’s UMUCO W’ITERAMBERE project. Funded by the European Union, the project improves the living conditions of rural communities in Burundi by providing them with access to a more efficient and durable energy system.
With the solar spotlight, a child is able to study in her house after school in Kirundo Province, Northern Burundi. Solar power is a sustainable and efficient way to produce electricity in rural Burundi, where the lack of infrastructure reduces the population’s access to energy. Building a market for solar electricity systems is a crucial component of AVSI's project UMUCO W’ITERAMBERE. The project, funded by the European Union, aims to improve the living conditions of Burundian rural communities by providing them with access to a more efficient and durable energy system.
Kancera Sambou is a farmer from the Kolda region in Casamance, Senegal and a field extension agent at the Ninaba Association for Community Development (ADC Ninaba), one of the Feed the Future Senegal Dooleel Mbay activity's partner networks. Kansera explains how the rainfall readings collected by a manual rain gauge are shared across the network via smartphones. “Readings are taken on a daily basis. The person in charge of monitoring passes by in the morning and then in the evening after each rainfall. He then shares information with the surrounding villages within a radius of 3 to 4 kilometers," said Kancera. Digital technologies are not often highlighted in discussions on agriculture and climate change. However, they have the potential to address agricultural challenges and increase resilience. Dooleel Mbay, funded by USAID, is helping farmers to adopt digital communication tools such as WhatsApp to share information. The aim is to strengthen farmers' resilience by improving their access to accurate and timely climate information. Digital technologies offer countless benefits to agriculture today, not least by contributing to its resilience. Projects such as Feed the Future Senegal Dooleel Mbay empower small-scale farmers through digital technologies.
Kancera Sambou is a farmer from the Kolda region in Casamance, Senegal and a field extension agent at the Ninaba Association for Community Development (ADC Ninaba), one of the Feed the Future Senegal Dooleel Mbay activity's partner networks. Kansera explains how the rainfall readings collected by a manual rain gauge are shared across the network via smartphones. “Readings are taken on a daily basis. The person in charge of monitoring passes by in the morning and then in the evening after each rainfall. He then shares information with the surrounding villages within a radius of 3 to 4 kilometers," said Kancera. Digital technologies are not often highlighted in discussions on agriculture and climate change. However, they have the potential to address agricultural challenges and increase resilience. Dooleel Mbay, funded by USAID, is helping farmers to adopt digital communication tools such as WhatsApp to share information. The aim is to strengthen farmers' resilience by improving their access to accurate and timely climate information. Digital technologies offer countless benefits to agriculture today, not least by contributing to its resilience. Projects such as Feed the Future Senegal Dooleel Mbay empower small-scale farmers through digital technologies.
Mangrove forests are vital ecosystems that are abundant along the coastlines of Siargao Island Protected Landscape and Seascape (SIPLAS) in the Philippines. Aside from their canopies and ground cover serving as habitat for diverse flora and fauna species, mangrove forests are also major contributors to climate change mitigation. They serve as carbon sinks, absorbing tons of carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in their branches, roots, and sediment. The SIPLAS Community Mobilization Officer for USAID’s Sustainable Interventions for Biodiversity, Oceans, and Landscapes (SIBOL) project visited a mangrove area in San Benito to conduct an initial assessment of its status post-Super Typhoon Odette. USAID continues to work with local government units and environmental offices in SIPLAS to promote the protection and rehabilitation of these coastal habitats.
A fisherfolk in Masinloc, Zambales, Philippines dries her fish catch that will be sold in the markets to earn income to support her family. She makes sure that her fish products are of the right sizes, avoiding young or juvenile ones. This is part of the locals’ efforts to support sustainable fishing so that future generations can still benefit from the marine resources of Masinloc. Through engaging in sustainable fishing, locals in Masinloc no longer need to partake in illegal activities that pose a threat to reef areas and coastal ecosystems vital for mitigating the impacts of climate change. USAID, through its Sustainable Interventions for Biodiversity, Oceans, and Landscapes (SIBOL) project, supports environmental campaigns to raise awareness among the local communities in Masinloc about the importance of marine protected areas and to encourage their participation in conservation initiatives.
Field researchers on USAID's Sustainable Interventions for Biodiversity, Oceans, and Landscapes (SIBOL) project spotted a green tree skink during an ecological assessment in Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL) in southern Palawan, Philippines. MMPL is a 120,457-hectare protected area that is home to the green tree skink and various other flora and fauna species. Preliminary data from the assessment showed that there were 97 bird species, 24 mammals, 67 reptiles and amphibians, and 290 species of plants identified in the area. However, several human-induced threats such as slash-and-burn farming, timber poaching, and hunting were also prominent in the area. Aside from being home to various species, Mt. Mantalingahan is an important frontier in carbon sequestration through its old-growth forests serving as carbon sinks. USAID is working with local partners in MMPL to update their protected area management plan using the results of the assessment to aid MMPL’s protection, conservation, and sustainable management.
A family from the Palaw’an tribe in Mt. Mantalingahan in southern Palawan, Philippines displayed their freshly harvested root crops. Indigenous groups residing in Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL) are highly dependent on the natural resources of the protected area. Apart from root crops and fruits, they also collect non-timber products such as honey, rattan, and almaciga resins. However, several activities such as timber poaching, charcoal making, and slash-and-burn farming pose imminent threats to them. Without appropriate conservation initiatives for the protected area, the Palaw’an will be among the first to be vulnerable against climate change impacts by losing their main sources of livelihood. USAID, through the Sustainable Interventions for Biodiversity, Oceans, and Landscapes (SIBOL) project, is engaging locals in the sustainable management of Mt. Mantalingahan by supporting the establishment of biodiversity-friendly enterprises such as ecotourism in the protected area. With alternative sources of livelihood, locals may be deterred from partaking in illegal environmental activities and engage in the conservation of MMPL's natural resources.
Children are delighted to drink water from the newly constructed tap in their house. The tap was built as part of the USAID RECoVER project in Bakaiya-6, Khopilte, Nepal, implemented in partnership with SAPPROSH Nepal and Catholic Relief Services since 2021. Before construction of this and similar taps in the area, people were used to fetching water from ponds and rivers for daily use. With the completion of this water project, the community now has access to clean drinking water, with taps in each household, benefiting the community by saving them time, improving their health conditions, and allowing them to utilize the wastewater in kitchen gardens. Simultaneously, this drinking water project supported them to grow vegetables and preserve the surrounding greenery.
With support from USAID, CARE conducted a water intervention in Ash Shamayatayn District, Yemen that enabled Amena, one of the local residents, to use the water in her home kitchen safely.