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Discovery and Conservation of the Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba Landscape, in the Democratic Republic of Congo Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba Project 1235 Ave. Poids Lourds Kinshasa, DR Congo +243‐(0)‐898 052 396 www.bonoboincongo.com FINAL REPORT USFWS – Great Ape Conservation Fund A New Conservation Landscape for Bonobo: Discovery and Conservation of the Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba Landscape, in the Democratic Republic of Congo Assistance Award Agreement # 98210-7-G285 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Great Ape Conservation Act Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation, Inc. Project Director: Dr. Terese B. Hart Start Date : 29 Aug 2007 Extension: 28 Aug 2008-1Apr 2009 First interim report covered: Aug 2007-Mar2008 Second interim report covered: Apr – Nov 2008 Final Report submitted 29 June, 2009 TL2 Bonobo Landscape, Final Report, Page 1 Table of Contents Performance Report • Executive Summary ….…………………………………………………….. 3 • Acknowledgements ………………………………………………………… 4 • Introduction/Overview …………………………………………………… 5 • Current Project Status …………………………………………………… 7 9 Objectives: activities undertaken 9 Problems and delays to achievement of objectives 9 Results and Products 9 Impact on conservation and management resources 9 Collaborations and cooperation with local groups Figures included in this report • Figure 1 – TL2 Conservation Landscape • Figure 2 – TL2 Administrative Context • Figure 3 – Bonobo Occurrence • Figure 4 – Elephant Occurrence • Figure 5 – Okapi Occurrence • Figure 6 – Primates Endemic to the TL2 Region • Figure 7 – Human Settlements in the Conservation Landscape Annexes including deliverables • Annex 1: Description of TL2 landscape and survey methods. • Annex 2: Brochure to promote hunting ban on nationally protected species. • Annex 3 : Examples of socio-economic field reports. 9 Annex 3a : Mission to Sankuru District (Kasai Orientale). Consultation with local NGOs 9 Annex 3b : Hunter and Trader Bushmeat control information campaign, Kailo Territory • Annex 4: Forms used for bushmeat monitoring. • Annex 5: Report official TL2 visit to Mbuji Mayi, capital of Kasai Oriental Province • Annex 6: Report Kailo Territory Assembly of Traditional Authorities, Kindu, 11 April 09 • Annex 7 : Bushmeat Presentation at 10 April 09 meeting for environmental agents Kailo Province, Province of Maniema. • Annex 8: Arrete re-establishing hunting seasons in Maniema Province. • Annex 9 : Field report of Honorable Bushiri, Community outreach consultant • Annex 10: Power Point presentation of TL2 (similar in Kindu, Kinshasa, and Mbuji Mayi) • Annex 11: Power point presentation of ICCN at the 11 april 09 meeting in Kindu • Annex 12: Radio Okapi announcement of a protected area in TL2 • Annex 13: Box covering the TL2 landscape submitted to the 2009 Congo Basin forest Partnership (CBFP) , State of the Forest • Annex 14. List of primary project staff and consultants. TL2 Bonobo Landscape, Final Report, Page 2 Executive Summary The TL2 Project is operational in the forests of central DR Congo, since May 2007. The project set out to learn the distribution and density of bonobo in the far eastern part of its range. This region, covering over 40,000 km2, had never before been fully explored and is one of the largest blocks of intact forest in DRCongo. Understanding and attempting to control threats to the bonobos and other large mammals is our current focus; thus, the project promotes grass-roots lobbies for conservation and is an impetus and guide to forest management. Discoveries and information from the TL2 project: 1) The distribution of bonobos between the Lomami and the Lualaba rivers extends south to the savanna border. 2) A major concentration of bonobos occurs at the southern forest ecotone over an area of about 10,000 km2 from the upper Tshuapa River in the west, to the Lualaba River in the east. 3) Forest elephants in the landscape have been reduced to a single concentration in the watershed of the Tutu River, a tributary of the Lomami. 4) The known distributions of several primates have been extended. 5) A new species of monkey, with the proposed name of Cercopithecus lomamiensis, most closely related to C. hamlyni, has been discovered. 6) The greatest threat to bonobos and all large mammals in the landscape is commercial bushmeat hunting. Most of the bushmeat produced is exported to Kindu and Kisangani. 7) An increasing proportion of commercial bushmeat hunters in the TL2 landscape come from neighboring regions (in particular Kasai Oriental) where hunted fauna have been depleted. Primary activities undertaken by the project include: 1) Inventories of bonobos and other large mammals were conducted throughout TL2 Landscape. 2) Brochure concerning Congolese hunting law in French and Swahili was widely distributed. 3) Two base camps were established in key faunal concentration zones to monitor wildlife and bushmeat hunting. 4) A bushmeat monitoring network was established. 5) Experiments in alternatives to bushmeat hunting were undertaken. New crop varieties were introduced to farmers at Obenge and assistance for agriculture provided. 6) Medical assistance (brought in surgeon on temporary basis) was provided to Obenge. 7) Three workshops attended by community representatives, and traditional and administrative authorities were held in Kindu, capital of Maniema Province, promoting management of bushmeat and initiating community participation in protected area delimitation . 8) Two training workshops were held for provincial wildlife agents in Maniema Province in preparation for re-establishment of wildlife laws. 9) Forums where TL2 conservation initiatives were presented and discussed were organized in the capitals of the three concerned provinces (Orientale, Kasai Oriental and Maniema). Progress in conservation and management initiated by the TL2 project: 1) The ICCN has publicly declared it will create an office in Maniema Province and it supports the creation of a national park in the core of the TL2 landscape. 2) The provincial administration of Maniema has passed a law creating hunting seasons effective as of June 2009. 3) Twenty-four wildlife agents in Maniema Province were trained and initiated in community outreach to prepare local populations for re-instatement of wildlife laws in the province. TL2 Bonobo Landscape, Final Report, Page 3 Acknowledgements The TL2 project has been possible because of the enthusiasm of many people and organizations. Nancy Abraham, who facilitated our first application to the Arcus Foundation, also provided the necessary matching grant through the Abraham Foundation. She and the director of the Abraham Foundation, Messiane Cazé, were essential in their encouragement to search for new sources of funding. Messiane also provided administrative assistance before we had developed our own capacity for project management. Their help was crucial. The Lukuru Foundation, through its president Jo Thompson, generously offered their organizational umbrella from the beginning. Jo has fully appreciated the scale of the project and Lukuru Foundation took much less than the 10% overhead of the original agreement. In addition a portion of overhead covers salary for the TL2 project director. As the project progressed Lukuru has taken an increasingly active role in administration. Our thanks for this essential guidance. It was soon clear that we had underestimated the difficulty of logistics as well as the breadth of political and civil society support required. Additional support was essential. The Abraham Foundation encouraged our first application to the USFWS Great Ape Conservation Fund. This support and the extension we received were essential to completion of the first phase of the TL2 project. Listed below are the primary organizations that have provided support: ARCUS FOUNDATION -- Also provided a second grant that has launched phase two. ALEXANDER ABRAHAM FOUNDATION – Assistance, encouragement and diverse services as well as financial aid. US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, Great Ape Conservation Fund -- An extension grant that doubled the amount of the original grant assured the successful completion of phase one of the TL2 project. WALLACE GLOBAL FUND – This grant covered the costs of moving the center of our operations south into the most important bonobo population. CANADIAN APE ALLIANCE – Provided funds for a first training session and one of their members, Nick January, has continued to offer critical assistance with GIS IOWA GREAT APE TRUST – Offered critical start-up funds to assure the satellite communications necessary for launching the project down the Lomami River. EDITH McBEAN – took a particular interest in the discovery of a new monkey species and offered help in establishing our first research camp, Losekola, to follow this monkey in the wild. DFID – this is the first major new funding to help establish phase two of the project. OTHER : Both GreenPeace and Conservation International provided funds that made it possible for Terese Hart to attend the CBFP meetings in Paris, Oct. 2007 (travel and per diem). Camp TreeTops (Adirondack summer camp for children) provided funds for medical assistance for residents of Obenge. Primary project staff and consultants are identified in Annex 14. TL2 Bonobo Landscape, Final Report, Page 4 Introduction and Overview The exploration of a remarkably unknown forested region in central DR Congo was initiated from a motorized dugout travelling from Kisangani, down the Congo River then up the Lomami River in March 2007. This landscape is known by three principal rivers, the Tshuapa, the Lomami and the Lualaba (TL2). The Tshuapa and Lualaba are its western and eastern borders; the Lomami River
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