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The Red Caps are project coordinators aiming to mitigate of human/wildlife conflicts. Recruited from local villages, trained and paid by Awely in collaboration with our local partner organizations, the Red Caps work at community level. A main part of their work is the detailed assessment of conflicts using interviews and investigations.
Some of the tools the Red Caps use include building capacity through workshops and regular meetings with the villagers and community boards, and developing applied technologies, such as livestock and crops protection methods. Education and information are highly important aspects of their work too, as it improves people’s attitudes towards wildlife and welfare issues.
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The second type of program developed by Awely is the Green Caps. These locally trained coordinators come into action where species and biodiversity hotspots are highly threatened by overhunting and illegal trade. The Green Caps meet the local communities and especially the most important target groups on a regular basis, and assess the impact they have on the environment. By updating the poaching, bushmeat *, and trade situations, they are able to introduce the most adapted solutions to reduce the pressures on biodiversity. Through investigations, capacity building, workshops, and creating micro-projects, they develop alternatives to the over-exploitation of natural resources.
* Bushmeat is the meat of wild animals hunted by local people for income or subsistence in West and Central Africa. While only used for local consumption in the past, it is now part of a vast traffic threatening many species already endangered.
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