Collaborative Protected Area Management in Malaysia (Crocker Range Park)

The Buayan-Kionop community has been putting a lot of effort in conserving and protecting their environment, one example of which was the following programme funded by a grant from the Darwin Initiative. The tireless work of the community will be meaningless if the Kaiduan dam project goes ahead.

The Global Diversity Foundation’s (GDF) regional programme in Southeast Asia received a two-year post project grant from the Darwin Initiative. The grant supports the implementation of a participatory resource monitoring programme that will enable local institutional partners and communities (Sabah Parks, PACOS, the Dusun community in Buayan-Kionop and GDF) to conduct long-term assessments of subsistence activities in the CUZs of Crocker Range Park. The grant will allow local partners and GDF to expand upon the initial three-year Darwin Initiative project entitled “Ethnobiology of Proposed Community Use Zones of Crocker Range Park”, which ended in July 2007. The collaborative management approach advocated by the initial Darwin Initiative project has been embraced by the Sabah Parks officials. (Source GDF web site)

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