Research and Conservation Foundation of Papua New Guinea

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Natural resource management

Through the facilitation approach RCF-Crater Mountain Project is working closely with the people in terms of Natural Resource Management.

This is part of the Conservation Efforts in Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area in terms of providing information to raise awareness so that the local people can sustainablly use their natural resources with out depleting them at a faster rate than the carrying capacity of the natural resources.

Some of the activities done are;

Crater Awareness Visits

This activity is done quarterly each year where the project team goes to each community. During this visit the project team and all the people in the community have meetings or individual communication or informal interviews to discuss issues and happenings about the project or the people in the community or other things.

 

 

 

 

Forestry Conservation Awareness Activities include:

Showing Of the Mining Documentary

Mining documentary - titled 'Crater Mountain Story' was done by Martin Madena film maker based in Germany. RCF engaged him to do the documentary with the Crater people. The documentary was done is such a way that it depicts as well as illustrates how people and their lifestyles have changed with the presence of development such as mining, logging etc.

Crater Mountain Story was shown for the CMWMA people in October 2007. Feedback from the people was that they didn't want full scale mining on their land.

Sustainable Hunting DVD

RCF engaged the Niugini Pictures to film the whole drama so that DVD could be made and distributed through out the country especially in schools to educated the young people about the importance using the natural resources wisely in and around the forest resources which they are part of.

Environmental Threat Posters

The environemental threat posters covers a range of environmental destruction topices written in 'Tok Pisin' and made simple for everybody to understand with arrows and simple drawings of photographs.

In November 2007 Mr. Toni Karolus a student from the university Of Goroka went in to all the communities in Crater Mountain and explained what the posters imply and relate it to how the people should use their environment sustainably.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boundary Mapping

Clan land boundary mapping is one of the main activities being undertaken by RCF- Crater Project. The aim of this activity is to indicate the boundaries of each clan and what portion of their land they have set aside as conservation areas.

In this activity, the land use patterns of the people will also be shown. Clan boundary mapping activity is being undertaken by Stanley Jacob the Mapping Officer. Work is currently being done in Haia and maps have been produced. Once the entire Haia area is mapped out, work will begin in the other villages in CMWMA.