Foot Patrols Enhance Conservation Efforts in Threatened Forest Reserves of Coastal Côte d’Ivoire

The Dassioko Sud and Port Gauthier Forest Reserves are important wildlife refuges in southern Côte d’Ivoire, harboring several endangered mammalian taxa. Between July 2012 and June 2016, foot patrols were conducted in these reserves by teams consisting of local villagers, Société de Développement des Forêts employees, law enforcement personnel, and the authors. The purpose of the patrols was to help curb poaching and illegal farming/logging and to collect information on wildlife. Over the length of the patrol period, both reserves experienced significant declines in illegal activities, including prior to the 2014 EBOLA outbreak. Both reserves continue to be pressured by persons living in surrounding villages; however, our results demonstrate that foot patrols involving local personnel can lead to significant declines in illegal activity inside such conservation areas.

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Utilisation of climbers in two forest reserves in West Côte d'Ivoire.

Forest climbing plants of West Africa: diversity, ecology and management ◽

10.1079/9780851999142.0167 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 167-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

F. H. Tra Bi ◽

F. N. Kouamé ◽

D. Traoré

Keyword(s):

Cote D'ivoire ◽

Côte D’Ivoire ◽

Cote D’Ivoire ◽

Forest Reserves ◽

Côte D'ivoire

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Street-Level Implementation in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire

Global Norms and Local Action ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190922962.003.0009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 163-191

Author(s):

Peace A. Medie

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Cote D'ivoire ◽

Police Officers ◽

Côte D’Ivoire ◽

Cote D’Ivoire ◽

Street Level ◽

Côte D'ivoire ◽

The Social ◽

Specialized Unit

This chapter draws on interviews with police officers in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire and gendarmes in Côte d’Ivoire to show how international and domestic factors changed how the rape and domestic violence laws were enforced. It demonstrates how the greater degree of institutionalization of the specialized unit led to a deeper salience of the international women’s justice norm in Liberia. However, in both countries, there were substantial deficiencies in how laws were enforced and how the norm was implemented. This chapter explains how a lack of resources for policing, combined with the social and economic pressures that survivors face, hindered law enforcement and norm implementation.

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Effects of anti-poaching patrols on the distribution of large mammals in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605317001272 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 53 (3) ◽

pp. 469-478 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Yves Aka Kablan ◽

Abdoulaye Diarrassouba ◽

Roger Mundry ◽

Geneviève Campbell ◽

Emmanuelle Normand ◽

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Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Cote D'ivoire ◽

National Park ◽

Côte D’Ivoire ◽

Large Mammals ◽

Cote D’Ivoire ◽

Encounter Rates ◽

Taï National Park ◽

Côte D'ivoire ◽

Tai National Park

AbstractThe effectiveness of protected area management is a major concern. In Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, recurrent human pressure challenges the ability of law enforcement authorities to protect wildlife. During 2010–2015 we studied the implementation of law enforcement in the Park to determine (1) the potential for improvement of the protection of large mammals and (2) the minimum patrolling effort needed to obtain increases in their populations. We recorded presence of large mammals and illegal activities in two areas within the Park, the research area (210 km2) and the rest of the Park (5,150 km2), and compiled data about patrolling efforts from the Park authorities. Using a generalized linear mixed model we identified a relationship between increased patrolling effort and the relative abundance of large mammals, especially for monkey groups, pygmy hippopotamuses Choeropsis liberiensis and duikers. At low patrolling efforts duiker encounter rates remained stable, whereas rates of encounter with monkey groups and pygmy hippopotamuses decreased. Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes verus encounter rates were slower to respond and remained stable at higher patrolling effort, but decreased at low patrolling effort. Our findings suggest that a minimum of 1.32 patrol days per km2 over 2 years is required for chimpanzee and monkey populations to increase, whereas a patrolling effort of 0.48 days per km2 over 2 years would lead to an increase in duiker and pygmy hippopotamus populations. We maintain that the patrolling effort required to ensure an increase in wildlife can be estimated relatively precisely from multi-year biomonitoring programmes.

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