“Participative Integrated Ecosystem Services Management Plans for Bakassi Post Conflict Ecosystem –PINESMAP-BPCE.”

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

The  Participative Integrated Ecosystems Services Management Plans for Bakassi Post Conflict Ecosystems which aims to ensure biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and improved management of Bakassi ecosystems through integrated ecosystem management plans including ecosystem valuation is a biodiversity conservation and Development  Project of the Republic of Cameroon funded by the United Nation's Environment Programme(UNEP), and the Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature & Sustainable Development (MINEPDED).

The project aims to support the Government of Cameroon to develop an Integrated Ecosystem Services Management Plan (IESMP) for the Bakassi ecosystems.  Through the IESMP, the project will harmonize sustainable development initiatives that guaranteed biodiversity conservation and alternative livelihoods for the local communities.

The IESMP will be operationalized though selective pilot activities related to biodiversity conservation and alternative livelihoods through supporting the stakeholders to ensure sustainable management of mangroves, in order to reduce pressures from overexploitation of mangrove wood for smoking fish and for construction materials and thereby to protect marine biodiversity linked to the mangrove ecosystems.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

To ensure biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and improved management of Bakassi ecosystems through integrated ecosystem management plans including ecosystem valuation.