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The Ebony Project Is Coordinated by the Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and the Work Is Implemented by CBI and the Following Project Partners THE EBONY PROJECT Developing an Integrative Program for Restoration, Use and Community-based Livelihoods Progress Report 2018 October 1 PROJECT PARTNERS The Ebony Project is coordinated by the Congo Basin Institute (CBI) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and the work is implemented by CBI and the following project partners: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture University of California, Los Angeles Cameroon USA Institut Supérieur des Sciences Taylor Guitar Environnementales USA Cameroon Crelicam Madinter International Cameroon Spain The Ebony Project is developing activities in collaboration with institutions in Cameroon including: Université de Yaoundé I, Prof. N. Niemenak Ministry of Forests and Wildlife (MINFOF), Cameroon, Conservation of the Dja Faunal Reserve National Forestry School Mbalmayo, Prof. N. Kingsly 2 Table of Contents Project Partners................................................................................................................................................................. 2 What is The Ebony Project? ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Working With Communities ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Project Accomplishments to Date ......................................................................................................................... 7 Plans for 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................... 8 Producing and Planting Trees ................................................................................................................................ 10 Project Accomplishments to Date ....................................................................................................................... 10 Cuttings .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 Seeds ................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Plant Nurseries .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Transplantations ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Plans for 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Understanding the Ecology of Ebony ................................................................................................................. 14 Project Accomplishments to Date ....................................................................................................................... 14 Ebony’s Range .................................................................................................................................................. 15 Ebony Inventory and Threats ...................................................................................................................... 16 Ebony Reproduction ...................................................................................................................................... 16 Growth Rates .................................................................................................................................................... 18 Plans for 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................. 19 Deploying Technology to Increase Production .............................................................................................. 21 Project Accomplishments to Date ....................................................................................................................... 21 Seed germination ............................................................................................................................................ 21 Improving outcomes via cuttings .............................................................................................................. 21 Microcutting ..................................................................................................................................................... 22 Somatic embryogenesis ............................................................................................................................... 23 Plans for 2019 ............................................................................................................................................................ 23 Sapling growth and survival ....................................................................................................................... 23 Cuttings ............................................................................................................................................................. 23 Tissue Culture .................................................................................................................................................. 23 A Vision for Expansion .............................................................................................................................................. 25 Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................................................... 27 Appendix A ...................................................................................................................................................................... 28 References ....................................................................................................................................................................... 34 3 WHAT IS THE EBONY PROJECT? The Ebony Project is funded by Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars and is a partnership where business, communities, and researchers work together to protect a valuable timber species, reforest degraded land, and improve rural livelihoods. The Ebony Project was launched in 2016 and to date has been 100% financed by Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars, co-owner of the Yaoundé based CRELICAM ebony mill. The majority of the work for this project takes place at Congo Basin Institute’s (CBI) Yaoundé campus, the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences (HIES) campus in Yaoundé, Bouamir Research Camp in the Dja Biosphere Reserve and communities in the natural range of the species. However, the project includes many field sites and partners (see Figure 1). KOMPIA: CBI, IITA, IBAY: SOMALOMO: Community forest Coordination, Lab Community study area work nursery NKENG-LIKOK: BIFOLONE: Community Community nursery nursery NKWOUAK: Community nursery ENEF: Forestry school & study area ZOEBEFAME: Community EKOMBITE: nursery Community nursery BOUAMIR: Primary CAFT village: forest study area Community nursery Figure 1. The ebony project working sites. Red and blue corresponds to present and expansion sites respectively. The projects has four main objectives: 1) Work with rural communities to create a scalable program for the sustainable production and stewardship of ebony. 4 2) Model West African ebony distribution and assess harvesting rates and appropriate planting areas. 3) Understand the basic ecology of ebony to enhance natural reproduction and dispersal, and test restoration approaches. 4) Test alternative propagation approaches, including tissue culture, to identify optimal conditions for cultivating ebony. The diversity of objectives demonstrate that the project is more ambitious than just planting trees. The Ebony Project seeks to create a model to enhance the sustainability of the species, its rainforest habitat, and participating communities. It has a quantitative target—to plant 15,000 ebony trees—but it is much more than that. It seeks to add capacity and knowledge at every stage of the life cycle to ensure that those trees, and the people who care for them, will not just survive but thrive (Figure 2). Project produces ebony UCLA leads the CBI team and is plants from seeds, cuttings, responsible for investigating the and tissue culture ecology of ebony and modelling its distribution. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is leading efforts to develop tissue culture Research on pollination, seed Communities tend propagation for ebony. Cameroonian distribution and habitat saplings in nurseries university the Higher Institute for supports long term with support from species survival the project Environmental Studies (HIES) works with villages to develop community- managed nurseries that produce and grow ebony and locally valuable fruit trees. Taylor Guitars, Madinter and Crelicam staff provide valuable business Research on perspective and a deep knowledge of growth, the ebony trade. distribution, and environmental The project is influenced by the Mature trees are conditions helps Communities seasonal cycles of Cameroon and of available for grow better ebony plant ebony with harvest or locally valuable ebony itself (Figure 3). In the Center, ecosystems fruit
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