WCS implements activities to support livelihoods of communities
living in the ‘green belt’ around the Park to minimize the effects of
the creation of the Park on local livelihoods and to generate incentives
for the communities to engage in conservation activities. In this
context WCS provides support to communities to improve subsistence
livelihoods (e.g. rice, fish farming, household livestock, and honey
production), to develop sustainable alternative sources of protein to
replace bushmeat sourced through illegal hunting activities, and to
develop sustainable and certified revenue sources through sustainable
cash crop value chains, including community conservation enterprises in
raffia, tourism, cocoa, vanilla and cloves.