Law Enforcement Monitoring
Data from ecoguard patrols and research teams operating within each protected area is analysed using a spatially explicit law enforcement monitoring (LEM) system. This allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of our law enforcement and other programs, and provides a basis for the development and improvement of our interventions in the future.
Specifically, data such as patrol effort (number of men and number of patrol days), spatial coverage, illegal human sign, animal carcasses, seizures and arrests is entered into a database and this can then be analysed and compared across time and space. A new database is currently being developed and field-tested. This will be conducted in collaboration with the MEFE, WCS-Living Landscapes Program Cybertracker International, CITES-MIKE and the Congo government agency CNIAF (Centre National des Inventaires et d'Amenagement de Faune) and the US Forestry Service.