Lao PDR: Incentive payments for Eld's deer conservation in Savannakhet Province

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dc.contributorSmithsonian National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (Smithsonian Institution/SI)en
dc.contributor.authorWCSen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSavannakhet Provinceen
dc.coverage.spatialLao PDRen
dc.coverage.temporal2003 - 2005en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:30Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:30Zen
dc.date.issued2007-12-05en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe rare Eld's deer (Cervus eldi siamensis), which was only recently discovered to still inhabit the open dipterocarp forest in Savannakhet Province of Lao PDR are threatened by the activities of nearby. WCS and the Smithsonian Institution (SI) initiated a "payments for conservation" scheme in 2003, with the aim of reducing threats to the deer and increasing the size of the deer population. Villagers were asked to: 1) reduce or stop hunting, (2) maintain habitat, and (3) be involved in conservation of Eld's deer. According to the agreement, WCS Laos paid an annual cash incentive (initially US$300, increased to US$450 in the second and third years) to each of three villages located close to a population of the endangered Eld's Deer in central-southern Laos in return for a reduction in threats to deer (though no criteria were set for how performance would be measured).en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier2915en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67550en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWildlifeen
dc.subjectCommunity institutionsen
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectEndangered speciesen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectConservation incentivesen
dc.subjectCommunity participationen
dc.subjectPESen
dc.subjectEld's deer (cervus eldi siamensis)en
dc.subjectLao pdren
dc.subjectPayments for conservationen
dc.subjectVillage conservation team (vct)en
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleLao PDR: Incentive payments for Eld's deer conservation in Savannakhet Provinceen
dc.typeAbstracten
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