📋 Tender Overview
Country:China
Area Of Work:Biodiversity
Grant Amount:US$ 50,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:US$ 2,781.64
Co-Financing in-Kind:
Project Number:CPR/SGP/OP7/Y4/STAR/BD/2023/02
Status:Not active yet
1. environmental and social-economic conditions
As an important link in the ecological chain, pangolin's living state will directly affect the stability and health of the ecosystem, and is closely related to human production and life. A single pangolin can kill 50-80 million ants and termites every year and protect 13.34 hectares of forest from ant damage; Their excavations help aerate the soil and facilitate the dispersal of plant seeds, and their abandoned burrows can provide temporary shelter for other wildlife in the forest, serving as feeding grounds for many small animals. Pangolins play an important role in natural ecosystems and contribute greatly to regional biodiversity.
However, due to the gap in the market demand for food and medicine, a large number of pangolins are poached and illegally smuggled. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that at least one million pangolins have been captured by humans over the past few decades. Sincethe 1960s, the number of wild pangolins in China has decreased by 88.88% to 94.12%, and the Chinese pangolin, which was once widely distributed in more than a dozen provinces south of the Yangtze River, is now hard to find in the wild.
On July 29, 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List changed the status of the Chinese pangolin from Endangered (EN) to Critically Endangered (CR). In June 2020, China upgraded all species of pangolin from national second-class protected wild animals to first-class. So far, only 142 confirmed pangolins have been collected in China's 11 provincial administrative regions. In Xiashui Gaoli Village, from 2019 to 2023, through comprehensive analysis of pangolin cave data and infrared camera images and direct counting statistics, 24 pangolin individuals have been monitored in the area, and 79 caves have been found, indicating that there is a healthy population of Chinese pangolin in the local area. Because this area is not the norm of nature reserves, there are still various risk factors such as poaching, logging and human activities, and it is urgent to strengthen protection work.
Problems
1. Community people have insufficient scientific understanding of pangolins, deviation of social and cultural concepts, and lack of practical support for conservation work.
2. The occurrence of poaching activities, man-made environmental pollution, production activities and other human factors may have adverse effects on the survival and reproduction of pangolin populations and destroy local biodiversity.
3. The infrastructure construction of pangolin guard stations and the work of pangolin population monitoring, habitat patrol and community education based on the guard stations need to be further improved.
4. In terms of long-t
