RAPPORT DE LA MISSION EXPLORATOIRE DE LA MISE EN PLACE DU
PROGRAMME D’EDUCATION ENVIRONNEMENTALE AUTOUR DU PARC
NATIONAL DE LA LOMAMI
PROVINCE DE MANIEMA
Saturnin Régis IBATA
INCEF
2012
This report presents the results of the exploratory mission of the implementation of
environmental education around the National Park Lomami, conducted from
23/11/2012 to 01/12/2012.
The National Park Lomami is straddling two provinces, namely the Eastern province
and Maniema, the results presented in this report are those of the outlying villages
Park in the province of Maniema. A second mission will take place in the current
Eastern Province in early 2013.
Public meetings, interactive and participatory around environmental themes were
organized in some villages on the outskirts of the park, to identify environmental
problems and community development, which local communities are facing the
daily and made to the frame messages to produce video support public awareness.
Reminder of the objectives
Main objective of the mission
The mission that we have made, and which is in collaboration with the project TL2
main objective is the exploration and identification of environmental problems
inherent in the National Park Lomami to develop specific messages for
environmental education program in local communities devices.
specific objectives
Specifically the mission is coupled to:
- Hold meetings of participatory and interactive discussions on issues of natural
resource management and environmental law in the chiefdom of Bangengele in the
territory of Kailo, Maniema Province, as well as in villages along the Lomami
Province Kasai Oriental.
- Identify potential resource persons for the filming of movies based themes to
remember;
- Identify sites location.
Composition of the mission team
The mission team was composed in the villages of:
- Mrs. Terese Hart, TL2 Project Director, Foundation Lukuru
- Mr De BYA God 'OMBE, Provincial Director of ICCN / Maniema;
- Mr Régis IBATA Saturnin, Environmental Education Coordinator INCEF
- Mr Leon Salumu, TL2 Project Focal Point in Kindu
Photo 1: Equipe de la mission en séance
Villages explored.
Our exploratory mission led us in the following villages:
- Katopa, the western edge of the Park,
- Oleke in eastern suburbs
- Makoka in eastern suburbs
- Ngondo, on the southern outskirts East
- Mangambuzu, on the southern outskirts East
Topics of discussion
The following themes have formed the subject for discussion with people from
different villages:
- Hunting;
Hunting remains a predominant activity around the National Park with an emphasis
Lomami trade of bushmeat to feed the market Kindu and poaching of protected
species. Illegal hunting and irrational, will inevitably lead to the decline of animal
populations in the periphery and in the park. He had to understand the magnitude
of this activity in order to detect problems (such as seen by the population) and
causes.
- Importance and interest of Lomani National Park;
The forest block of Lomami is in the process of being classified as National Park. And
for its protection, the involvement and commitment of local communities is
necessary. It goes without collecting the views of local communities on the
importance and significance of the park.
- The laws governing the management of natural resources
The exploitation of all natural resources of the DRC, are governed by texts. From this
theme we sought to assess the level of knowledge of people on issues of laws
regulating hunting and protected areas.
- Community Development.
The existence of a protected area, forcing local communities devices to observe a
number of laws governing the exploitation of natural resources and restricting them
to a number of rights of use. Hence the need for local communities to develop
alternatives to the predominant activities has strong negative impact on wildlife and
habitat. This theme, we wanted to know the capacity of local communities to
identify other income generating activities other than the trade in bushmeat and
imagine scenarios appropriate for local development.
Methodological approach to public meetings to identify problems
The methodology used for identifying problems, was as follows:
- Ask a series of key questions at the hearing about each topic.
- Participants meet at any liberty to questions according to their knowledge.
- For each response, the names and responses of respondents noted
- The evidence given by the participants were recorded on camera.
The meaning of interactive discussions was about to better understand the causes of
the problems listed and the ability of participants to suggest approaches and
solutions.
Photo 2: Séance publique au village Katopa
Makoka
Photo3: Enregistrement d’un témoignage village
the results
* Problems, causes and possible solutions identified.
The results of the public meetings in five (5) villages explored on four (4) topics
discussed are compiled in the table below. Problems, causes and solutions
approaches presented in the table were identified by local communities themselves
and are major issues that they face. These results reflect the general opinion of
almost all communities explored.
Villages
Thèmes
Problèmes
Causes
- Diminution en gibier dans les terroirs de chasse ;
- Braconnage des espèces intégralementprotégées du Parc ;
- Chasse dans le Parc de la Lomami.
-
Katopa
Chasse
Oleke
Très
faible
connaissance
sur
Importance et intérêt du
l’importance
et
l’intérêt
du
Parc
Parc National de Lomami
National ;
- Très faible niveau de connaissance desLoi régissante la gestion des
lois réglementant la chasse et les AP ;
ressources naturelles
Makoka
- Commerce de viande de brousse.
Ngondo
Mangazumbu
Développement
Communautaire
-
L’activité économique est centrée sur le
commerce de viande de brousse ;
-
-
Absence des activités économiques
locales compétitives au commerce de
viande de brousse.
-
Absence des structures associatives
locales de développement
communautaire ;
Non respect et insuffisance de connaissances
sur les dispositions légales réglementent la
chasse ;
Usage abusif des engins de chasse ;
Absence d’autres activités économiques que la
chasse,
Forte demande en bushmeat au niveau de
Kindu
Facteurs sociaux
Satisfaction des besoins vitaux
Surexploitation et établissement illégale des
terroirs de chasse villageois par des revenants
d’autres communautés lointaines.
Commerce de viande de brousse
Faible niveau de sensibilisation et
d’information
Approches de
solution
-
-
Faire respecter la
loi
Expulsions des
occupants illégaux
venant d’autres
communautés des
terroirs de chasse
Faible niveau de sensibilisation et
d’information
Mauvais état des ponts sur les pistes d’accès au
grand centre urbain ;
Absence d’encadrement et d’accompagnement
des communautés locales dans les modèles de
développement communautaire approprié ;
- Retour à l’agriculture
- Renforcement de
capacité de
communauté
* Contacts and filming sites identified
Resource persons for shooting filmages were identified according to the relevance
of answers and testimonies data on each topic. Those resources will be
supplemented by experts and public authorities intervene in the filming of movies.
Filming sites are villages and urban centers where resource persons were identified.
other activities
* Film Screening of public consciousness.
During our stay in the villages, we organized screenings of educational films
produced Salonga through its environmental education program in the landscape
Salonga-Lukeni-Sankuru.
Photo 4: Séance de projection au village Ngondo
Photo 5 : Séance de projection au village Oleke
* Open House on the management of the National Park Lomami
At the end of our mission in the villages, TL2 project, GTZ and ICCN / Maniema
organized an open day on the management of the National Park Lomami, which we
took part in the hearing and projected the film Why the Salonga National Park?
unfortunately that has not been completed due to lack of power outage.
This conference organized by the steering committee of the future National Park
Lomami (TL2, ICCN and GIZ), aimed to present to the provincial and local officials,
the results of monitoring work and the future vision of management of the area
protected.
The court said three conference presentations were followed and presented in turn
by:
- Mrs. Terese Hart on the results of monitoring of the Park;
- Mr Udo GIZ on the management strategies of complex Lomami
- Mr De Bya'Ombe God of the ICCN management overview PN Lomami.
Photo 6 : Présentation du Projet TL2
Photo 7 : Présentation de l’ICCN
conclusions
The report of the exploratory phase, the scripts to produce film content will be
developed.