GPCAS ENHANCEMENT IN THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT

Partners will protect 78,248 ac with legal mechanisms, promote sustainable use of grasslands, implement management activities within five properties (89,990 ac), and reduce desertification on 30,722 ac. Bird monitoring surveys will be done in El Tokio at large-scale and in Mapimi and VACE at ranch-level scale.

They will develop handbooks about soil restoration activities and seed collection that will allow practitioners and landowners to be more efficient in implementing ecological restoration activities.

A social network analysis will be done, to obtain a sociogram with important information to improve the collaboration efforts in the Chihuahua Desert.

With the National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research, Pronatura Noreste, AC will determine how the Carbon absorption and GHG emission fluctuated in different grazing intensities and with the information, support why it is important to restore and conserve grasslands and how grasslands can help in the fight against the clime alterations conditions.

There are 11 direct partners and 40 indirect partners that will be involved in different activities.