1. Interventions to Address Migration in Areas of High Biodiversity
A Preliminary Assessment

2. Outline
Types of interventions
Examples of interventions
Key questions

3. Types of Interventions
Influencing migration
Reducing impacts on natural resources

4. Types of Interventions
Influencing migration
Policy level
Field level
Reducing impacts on natural resources

5. Types of Interventions
To address immediate situation
To affect future state or conditions

6. Maya Biosphere Reserve
Relocation of communities
Land titling
Agreements of permanence
Communication about the Reserve and use restrictions
Reproductive health and family planning

7. Dzanga-Sangha Reserve
Zoning in combination with patrolling
Revenue sharing
Population monitoring system

8. Terai Arc Forests
Strengthen tenure of indigenous forest user groups to protect land and resources from outsiders
Zoning
Development of off-farm income generation
Creation of development magnets in non-sensitive areas

9. Western China
Ecological migration: policy-induced movement of poor people from geographically disadvantageous, but ecologically significant and fragile, areas to places where there is a better chance for poverty reduction.

10. Key Questions How should we define migrant?
Where we want to do policy interventions, how can we work to ensure good enforcement as well?
Are there migrations that can actually benefit conservation?

11. Key Questions
How effective is the link between poverty alleviation and conservation?
What are the lessons learned, both successes and failures, about reducing migration?
What type of guidelines would be useful for conservation practitioners in addressing migration?