Description du projet

Life will be virtually impossible for local people without natural habitats that represent reservoirs of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) such as leaves, wild fruits and wild edible fungi (WEF), which are harvested from natural habitats (Malaysia 2010). Despite this socioeconomic importance, natural habitats continue to suffer enormous degradation from human activities (agriculture, logging, etc.) which have the direct consequence of the fragmentation of natural habitats and the indirect disappearance of certain useful forest species. Therefore, their restoration through reforestation by endangered useful forest species remains urgent and essential to answer the questions of sustainable conservation of biodiversity in the Wari-Maro region. The objective of our report is to: (a) train farmers on nursery cultivation techniques for forest species and (b) reforest natural habitats in the Wari-Maro Forest reserve in Benin.