1 / 18

Mobilisation of volunteers in Rodrigues

Mobilisation of volunteers in Rodrigues. By Anieta Shan Yu Rodrigues Nature Reserve Officer Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. Séminaire de restitution du projet LIFE+ COREXERUN – 02 au 06 juin 2014. Rodriques Island. H istory.

hao
Download Presentation

Mobilisation of volunteers in Rodrigues

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Mobilisation of volunteers in Rodrigues By Anieta Shan Yu Rodrigues Nature Reserve Officer Mauritian Wildlife Foundation Séminaire de restitution du projet LIFE+ COREXERUN – 02 au 06 juin 2014

  2. Rodriques Island

  3. History • In the early 80’s Rodriguans knew nothing about native flora and fauna of Rodrigues • It was only volunteers coming from the U.K. who came on and off to look for native plants and count the endemic birds and bats; e:g Wendy strahm wrote the RED DATA BOOK of Rodrigues • Past researches work in isolation without the population being involved • This initiative was funded by WWF

  4. The change • In 1998 when Richard Payendee joined the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (MWF) and started working with the foreign volunteers. • MWF started a new project and vision in Conservation involving the local community (year 1999)

  5. Recruitment of Volunteers • MWF started a national champagne how to protect the native flora and fauna of Rodrigues ( Grande Montagne, AnseQuitor, Ile aux Cocos) • Talks was given on radio, in schools, in village communities to invite people to come and help for free as fund was not available to pay salaries.

  6. Negotiations with schools teachers

  7. Visiting Nature Reserve

  8. Talk in School

  9. Nursery visits

  10. Nursery visits

  11. Nursery works

  12. Seed cleaning

  13. Control of invasive species

  14. Maintenance Weeding

  15. Planting activity

  16. Monitoring

  17. Volunteer groups Lions club, MCB Bank, Barclays Bank, Mauritius Telecom, Emtel, School children, Scouts Groups, Youth Groups Air Mauritius, JeuneChambreEconomique, village communities, Sport clubs, Women Associations….ect Local Government staff and amateur botanist

  18. Thank You Hibiscus liliflorius

More Related