Programme for sustainable forest management in the Congo Basin - TNS Environmental Foundation - Investment measures

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The cross-border protected area complex Tri-National de la Sangha (TNS) includes the Dzangha Sangha protected area (APDS) in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Nouabalé Ndoki National Park (PNNN) in the Republic of Congo and the Lobéké National Park (PNL) in the Republic of Cameroon and was founded in 2000 by the presidents of the participating countries. The environmental foundation Fondation pour le Tri-National de la Sangha (FTNS) is tasked with contributing to the sustainable and project-independent financing of the protected area complex using capital gains from its fund. All three national parks of the TNS have their own park management and have been supported for many years, including by the non-governmental organizations World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). As part of the development cooperation program Sustainable Forest Management in the Congo Basin, the FC module contributes to better protection and more sustainable use of forest resources in the Congo Basin (development cooperation program objective). The project funds are intended to finance necessary investment measures in the APDS and PNNN national parks as well as technical advisory services for the FTNS and three national parks in the TNS (support program for the project with the BMZ number 2016 68573). The investments in the APDS and PNNN (including their peripheral communities) as well as the technical advisory services will cost around EUR 5 million. The Central African Forest Commission COMIFAC is the recipient of the budget funds and passes the financial contributions on as a grant to the project sponsor FTNS. The direct target group of the FC module are the mostly poor residents of the TNS, in whose peripheral areas around 33,500 people live. Due to the positive effects of the project on the global goods of biodiversity and climate, the world population is also the target group of the project in a broader sense.