New project aims to protect biodiversity and reduce poverty through sustainable forest management.
The Forest Sector Development Project aims to manage plantations sustainably, protect biodiversity, reduce poverty, and enhance environmental protection. Threats to biodiversity include habitat destruction, unsustainable hunting, and illegal wildlife trade. Human activities can harm soil productivity in coastal forests. The project has four main components: institutional development, smallholder plantation management, special forest use, and project monitoring. It aims to create a long-term financing mechanism for biodiversity conservation, build local capacity, increase community awareness, support alternative livelihoods, establish harvesting controls, and build partnerships with local communities and governments.