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Environmental Shepherds (=Khoadi //Hoas) Poaching & Stock Theft To control a threat to wildlife & livestock farming & gauge general community support for the efforts of the Conservancy Community Meetings To provide information to Conservancy, Agric. Union & Agric. Association Committees & inform ordinary Conservancy & Agric Union members & Visitors about policies and activities Rainfall, Fire & Floods To track environmental ‘impacts’ that influence the natural resources so that changes can be explained and management can be adapted RAINFALL RAIN-GAUGE NUMBER: Year : January February March April May June July Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall August September October November December Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Day Rainfall Committee meetings Community liaison meetings Fires Flooding STOCK-THEFT POACHING Problem Animals Veld monitoring To track problem animal incidents over time & measure the effort that goes into reducing conflict with problem animals To track seasonal and long-term changes in the veld so as to understand the impacts of grazing, wood collection and droughts and to predict food shortages for livestock and wildlife 8 L DAMAGE REPORT Elephant/rhino monitoring PROBLEM ANIMAL LOG Damage to crops NAME: Damage to water Date Village Species Number Extent of loss Type of loss ha Reaction Prevention number (kraal/fence) Num Killed Problem animal Yes/No To track these rare animals as they have high value and management can be applied on the basis of an individual animal or herd Complainant Complainant's signature Attacks on humans Damage to livestock ; Predators w 8 o t Management • Game introduction & harvesting • Maintain water points • Fence maintenance • Fire breaks & firefighting • Manage trophy hunter • Road maintenance Community Shepherds are the natural resource management arm of the Community. In addition to monitoring, they also perform functions to maintain and improve common property resources. PREDATOR LOG NAME: Obs Type 0 Date Spoor Environmental Shepherds Observed 0 To estimate predator populations at any given time & get trends on how these species are performing over time Grid Cell/ GPS Species Number east south Notes (sex age structure, etc) Reported to… Wildlife patrols To get trends on various wildlife species to see how they are performing over time Livestock Monitoring To track livestock condition, numbers of livestock and movement of herds in the area Mortalities To track mortalities to alert the Committees if there is a sudden rise in mortalities. & Importantly to determine the cause of mortalities be this poaching, disease, etc MORTALITY LOG NAME: Unknow n Natural south Predator east Poach Species > w eek Date Carcass age Cause of Death < w eek Grid Cell Notes Reported to… Fixed-Route Vehicle Counts To get: 1. population estimates for quota setting & carrying capacity 2. trends of wildlife species to see how they are performing over time 3. a map of where the important wildlife areas are WILDLIFE PATROLS OBSERVERS MONTH ROUTE: PATROL DAYS To provide GFU support where required Grid Cell/ GPS DATE Species Notes (sex age structure, etc) Number east south