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Eco-Region // Newslater // No.1 , 2016 1 Editor’S Note Photo © FZS/daniel rosengren © FZS/daniel Photo Eco-Region // Newslater // No.1 , 2016 1 Editor’s Note Dear readers, t gives me a pleasure to pass my message development actors and create common Ithrough this Eco-Region Newsletter understanding for complementaries of on behalf of implementing consortium interventions. In addition, it will help members (Farm Africa, SOS Sahel, Frankfurt for success stories, achievements and Zoological Society, IWMI and PHE EC) of challenges to be well understood by the Support for Horn of Africa Resilience relevant development partners so that the (SHARE) European Union Program project poverty alleviation process and resilience in Bale Eco-region (SHARE BER). This project building can be easily accelerated. is peculiar in that it aims to piloting Eco- regional approach to ensure inclusive and In this first Newsletter, we have presented integrated approach linking highland and important information that gives clear lowland communities through ecosystem picture on our intervention areas, piloted service flow; hence with the potential to approaches, processes and progresses. greatly contribute to the SDGs, GTP, CRGE and INDC of the country. Dear readers, with strong belief on the importance of this newsletter, I wish you This Newsletter is part of the project’s to have nice reading. I expect you will activity to inform all stakeholders at provide us constructive feedback on the Federal/regional governments’ on newsletter and hope it will be a means to progresses, achievements, lessons open up doors for better partnership. and best practices. Documenting and disseminating tangible facts on the results of such innovative intervention will be Negash Teklu of immense value to create awareness to the wider stakeholders and partners at Editor-in-Chief and all levels thereby strengthen partnership PHE Ethiopia Consortium, and collaboration. It will also help to easily share results with evidences to the wider Executive Director Editors and Contributors © SHARE BER Project Consortium Negash Teklu, Address: Executive Director, PHE-EC Farm Africa Kabtamu Kebede, PO Box: 5746, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Knowledge Tel: +251 11 467 4129 Sharing Specialist, SHARE BER Project +251 11 465 5156/11 4663172 Web site: www.farmafrica.org Endashaw Mogessie, Monitoring, Evaluation and Communication Officer, PHE EC PHE-EC P.O.Box: 4408, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia Asaye Asnake, Tel.: +251 116 634116/21 Project Coordinator, E-mail: [email protected] SHARE BER Project Web site: www.phe-ethiopia.org 2 Eco-Region // Newslater // No.1 , 2016 1 Overview of the Bale Eco-region Values of Bale Eco-Region ale Eco-Region (BER) is Bpart of the Afromontane biodiversity hotspot that belongs to the 34 global biodiversity hotspots. It harbors several endemic but threatened species of animals and plants. It is also an area that has natural features of high tourist attraction; hence strong tourism value. BER has national, regional and global importance mainly in biodiversity conservation and as a source of diverse ecosystem services. Over 40 streams and springs originate from the mountains in the BER that drain into five major rivers namely: Wabe-Shebelle, Web, Welmel, Ganale, and The location map of Bale Eco-region Dumal, on which an estimated 12 million people in the and highlands. area are predominantly based downstream areas depend on a mixed crop-livestock for livelihoods. These rivers The BER comprises three subsistence agricultural drain into the Indian Ocean agro-ecological zones: system, while communities after crossing through the highland, mid altitude and living in the mid altitude lowland areas. The rivers are lowland. The livelihoods of and the lowlands are mainly the major sources of water for communities in the highland pastoral and agro-pastoral. domestic use, irrigation and hydro power generation. The rivers are also key to link the highland-lowland systems through a flow of ecosystem services and support to biodiversity conservation. The mountainous highland part of the Eco-region is the water tower for the southeastern drainage system including the lowlands of Oromia, Ethiopian Somali, Republic of Somalia and Northern Kenya. This indicates that improving the management and restoration of degraded landscapes in the BER through harmonize Photo © FZS/daniel rosengren and inclusive way is key to maintain ecosystem services Partial View of Bale Eco-region Eco-systems and improve livelihoods of people living in the lowlands Eco-Region // Newslater // No.1 , 2016 3 the co-region are population Challenges growth, poverty, lack of cross- Threat to the atural resources base sectoral integrated actions Ethiopian Wolf: Nof the BER is declining and policies, and capacity gaps Present Challenge due to human actions (e.g., at human and institutional deforestation, expansion levels for responsible natural he Ethiopian wolf, a symbol of agricultural land and resources management. Also, Tof the country, which overgrazing and forest fire) and most of the programs and is found in Bale Mountain natural factors (e.g., drought). projects implemented and are National Park, has suffered from For example, the conversion being implemented in the BER the impacts of encroachment, of grazing lands to agricultural fail to recognize the upstream- development in the park and lands in the highlands of BER downstream linkages through livestock grazing. Livestock are is increasing livestock pressure ecosystem services flow and usually brought into the park on the remaining grazing lands how these are intimately temporarily or permanently. and affecting the traditional linked to community Livestock grazing is a threat transhumance practice. livelihoods and resilience to the Ethiopian wolf because Degradation of grassland and at a broad landscape scale. people usually came into the forest resources as well as land Further, most of the projects park to graze their livestock conversion have resulted in soil were not comprehensive and with their dogs, and spread erosion, flooding, drought, and fail to address the complex diseases such as “rabies” and depletion of ground water This issues in natural resources “canine distemper.” (CDV). in turn has led to chronic food management. For example, insecurity and vulnerability to the fundamental drivers of Based on the estimation made increased land degradation landscape change such as in 2014, the Bale Mountain and recurring drought. The human population growth, National park contain more impacts of inappropriate land and how this affects present than 350 wolves, which is management practices on and future sustainable about 75% the total number the livelihood of communities management of NRM of wolves found in Ethiopia. in the BER is aggravated by (demography-environment However, in 2014/2015, the climate change/variability. nexus) in the entire Eco-region wolves were affected by rabies are not addressed yet. outbreak and considerable The major drivers of the number of wolves were died. natural resources problems in In response to the outbreak of rabies, EWCP teams were able to vaccinate up to 106 wolves, almost 30% of them, and supported to increase the number of wolves back. Unfortunately, by the end of September 2015 a few dead carcasses of wolf were observed, and subsequently the tissue and serum samples were taken and send to the Photo © FZS/daniel rosengren laboratory for analysis. Results of the analyses confirm that Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) was the cause for the death of wolves in the Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP). CDV has a strong impact on the population of wolves, as it affects young, adults and the new born Pups. Due to the outbreak of this virus, it was estimated that the BMNP lost about 60 to 75% of the wolves. This in turn indicates that not more than 100 wolves exist in Livestocks grazing in the park (top) and forest fire( bottom) the BMNP at the moment. The Ethiopian wolf is a wild animal 4 Eco-Region // Newslater // No.1 , 2016 and in a natural environment The Why and What The overall goal of the where there is no human project is to enhance interference, they have a of SHARE BER? drought resilience, food potential to withstand such and nutrition security of disease outbreaks and maintain ollowing the recognition vulnerable populations their population. However, in Fof the multi-faceted in southern and eastern the BMNP, human intervention nature of NRM problems Ethiopia, through achieving to control disease outbreak and the ineffectiveness of the project’s specific is key as the environment is sector based approach, objectives such as improving not intact and there is huge the SHARE BER project was biodiversity conservation human interference. After initiated. The project is and ecosystems functions months of debate within unique in many ways. First and services in BER, and EWCA and various experts it takes into consideration increasing the resilience and both in Ethiopia and abroad, an Eco-regional approach well-being of communities it was agreed to vaccinate to address drivers of natural living in the BER. up to 18 wolves living in resources degradation unaffected areas of the park. at scale by considering The project activities This campaign began on the the interdependence are carried out in seven 12th of February and after 8 and interaction between Woredas located in the BER. days the teams managed to highland and lowland The project activities are vaccinate only two wolves due resource users. Second, to low population of wolves. expected to benefit
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