{"id":19636,"date":"2024-07-02T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/?p=19636"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:41:59","slug":"nature-reserve-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/portfolio\/nature-reserve-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuing Tourism and Ecosystem Services in a Nature Reserve in Chad<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Context<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
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Anthropogenic activities have directly resulted in degraded landscapes and ecosystems and indirectly impacted warming temperatures, exacerbating disturbances and resulting in changing weather systems.<\/p>\n

This contributed to rapid climatic shifts and increases in the frequency and intensity of hazardous events. These global changes are evident in the North and Central African regions, which have seen some of the fastest temperature increases in the last 20 years, almost doubling in some areas. The result is extra pressure on forests and land-based ecosystems, and resources, which are facing mounting threats to their abilities to provide essential ecosystem services.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, unsustainable forest and land resource management is leading to deforestation, land degradation and unsustainable water consumption driven predominantly by expansion of agriculture, fuelwood collection, infrastructure development and mining. One of the countries most impacted in these regions is the Republic of Chad.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The project<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
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The Global Partnership for Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes (PROGREEN) was set up as a World Bank administered Multi-Donor Trust Fund to support rural livelihood development and landscape restoration while tackling declining biodiversity, forest loss, deteriorating land fertility, and risks exacerbated by a changing climate.<\/p>\n

In 2020, PROGREEN and the Chad ALBIA \u2013 Local Development and Adaptation Project (ALBIA) programme, engaged with the Republic of Chad government and the Ouadi Rim\u00e9-Ouadi Achime (OROA) Wildlife Reserve to improve the management of natural resources and the livelihood of populations in selected climate vulnerable areas in and around the OROA reserve in Chad. As a contribution to that, our study aims to better understand the ecosystem services<\/a> within and around OROA, with an eye towards eventual commercialization that can support long term financing opportunities in and around the reserve.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Our contribution<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
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Etifor is leading the assessment of potential tourism and ecosystem services within and around the OROA Wildlife Reserve with the following specific objectives:<\/p>\n