Gaana Balbar Set our taimen free

Gaana Balbar

Set our taimen free

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Site: The Onon River, Mongolia

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Onon is headwater of the Amur

Amur River flows through Mongolia, Russia, and China

Longest Salmon river in Asia

One of last strongholds for Taimen, the world’s largest Salmonid

6 towns, 17 000 people

The Strategy in the Onon River area

Our campaign will protect the taimen fish in the Onon River by working with local fishing people to adopt catch-and-release fishing practices in order to reduce illegal fishing.

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SITE Target Audience

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Local fishermen

THE ONON RIVERTheory of ChangeResults & Critical Analysis

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CRConservation Result

GoalBy 2017, there will be a 10% (50 - 60) increase in adult taimen (80-100cm) in the Onon River (current number is 500-600 as measured by Z. Hogan and S. Chandra2008)

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KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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Results48.2% of (pre 8.2%) local fishermen answered “know laws and fines/penalties accurately” with the question “Are you aware of any laws on fishing in the Onon River?” Knowledge of local fishermen increased by 40 percentage point,

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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Results92.7% of (pre 36.5%) local fishermen answered strongly agree on the statement “Taimen should always be put back into the Onon river after it is caught”. This answer proves that attitude of local fishermen increased by 56.2 percentage point,

ICInterpersonal communications

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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Results87.3% of (pre 12.3%) local fishermen checked the box “Have talked to anyone” with the question “In the past 6 months, have you talked to anyone about releasing taimen back into the river instead of keeping it?” This answer proves that IC of local fishermen increased by 75 percentage point,

ICInterpersonal communications

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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Critical Analysis• Most effective activities are ones where I engage directly with people• Least effective activities was taimen song

Barrier RemovalBR

ICAttitude

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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Results1.6 fishing clubs established2.Along the Onon River established 25 CMAs that includes a river area.3.Conducted monitoring and patrolling training with 120 fishermen and CMA ranger by BR Grant fund, provided them photo cameras .

Critical Analysis•Established in 6 fishing clubs. •Fishing club is community based organization. •Fishing clubs try to be model CBO in terms of sustainable natural resource management.•Community patrolling couldn't cover all river parts.

Barrier Removal Deep Dive

1. Successes are: WWF, ADB projects, Establishing of Fishing Clubs, CBO, and CMA

2. Challenges are: Follow-up activities, bureaucracy3. Appropriate strategy: More focus on the fishing clubs

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BCBehavior Change

BRBarrier Removal

ICAttitude

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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Results1.Resulted in 250 taimen being caught and released safely with pictures to prove it2.76.9% of local fishermen answered “take a catch and release picture with camera” and 19.1% of fishermen answered “don’t fish” with the question “How do you show to others you are a good fisherman?” No one answered “keep dried taimen head for home” in same question.

Critical AnalysisGoal in first changed fishing club membersWill be changed other fishermen in the future

BCAttitude

TRThreat Reduction

BRBarrier Removal

ICAttitude

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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ResultsIn 2010 in the Onon River totally 5 illegal fishing activities reported by all Soum inspectors, Park

rangers and APU. .Critical Analysis•Fishermen collect taimen data, •They do patrol same time with monitoring or fishing•Taimen expert compile them•Can’t monitor completely the illegal fishing

BCAttitude

TRThreat Reduction

BRBarrier Removal

ICAttitude

AAttitude

KKnowledge

CRConservation Result

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ResultsIn 2010 taimen population increased by 48.7% than 2008. (P.Tsogtsaikhan)

Critical AnalysisTaimen population increased, butMay have other reason: number of monitoring

How we monitored success?

2009

Qualitative & Quantitative Results1.My colleague Bolortuya met with some city fishermen in the Dadal restaurant2.Local people started to make taimen handicrafts3.We conducted taimen handicraft auction4.Binder soum fisherman Tuvshin tries to come off taimen with visitors.5.Kids influenced to parents put back the big dark minnows6. Local and visiting Fishermen seen a taimen billboards and posters 100%.7.People seen many materials (brochure, button, stickers etc) more than 95%.

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How we monitored success?

2009

Lead Agency Partner PerspectiveB.Batkhuyag. My supervisor. He says that it is amazing, every where taimen materials, it seems that even all dogs in the Onon area, bark “taimen, taimen” sooner.L.Khulan. WWF Mongolia. Communication Team Leader. She is very appreciated and supportive to my campaign. She is also trying to use my campaign methods and tools in the Snow Leopard site in the western Mongolia

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Where are we and where are we going?

2010 CR Baseline

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Where are your target audiences at on the Theory of Change?

What are your future goals to move them along the Theory of Change?

Type in summary of FUTURE goals for either CR, TR, BR or BC•CR - Increase by 10% adult taimen by 2017.•TR - Reduce illegal fishing of Taimen by all Fishermen•BR – Improve capacity building, and follow-up of Fishing clubs, Increase CMA community patrolling.•BC – All fishermen always release Taimen back into the river after it's caught. Fishing clubs should maintain permitting process in the area.

K + A + IC + BR BC TR CRLocal fishremen

Local fishremen