Engaging Ember-Wounaan Indigenous Communities in Reforestation and Alternative Livelihoods: Model of Community-Based Conservation in the Darien (II).

Conducting a public campaign to build a conservation constituency in the region; reforestation with native trees, including commercially valuable trees and shade-grown coffee, as an alternative to poaching and deforestation; strengthening of local organizations to increase capacity to manage incentive agreements; training community members in agroforestry, wildlife monitoring, and forest patrolling; developing land use co-management plans in two indigenous communities that include no-take zones around harpy eagle nesting sites and securing their ratification from the Ministry of Environment; and (6) building a coalition of national and international partners to scale up conservation efforts across the Darien region.