Capacity building

The Wild Chimpanzee Foundation is conducting capacity-building workshops for various state actors and WCF team members. The training focus on patrolling tools, including the use of SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) and GPS with the goal to render the agents operational and proficient in the surveillance and management of natural resources. Other courses focus on cartography and the QFIELD application to ensure that officers leaving on patrol are able to locate offense locations, types of offense, take photos, and centralize data. Law enforcement workshop have the objectives to increase knowledge and understanding of the fauna and flora codes, hunting and logging regulations and train state agents in the techniques and procedures of arrests operations, confiscations, prosecutions, and legal follow-up. Biomonitoring workshops teach how to conduct line transect and camera trap distance sampling surveys in protected areas. Participants learn for example how to operate a camera trap, from understanding the set-up menu, battery and memory card placement, to practicing how to find a suitable tree to fix it to, and how best to position it.