Daweishan National Nature Reserve crosses Pingbian, Hekou, Mengzi and Gejiu counties with the total area of 439 square kilometer.
Daweishan has the only humid rainforest in the mainland of China and has a complete tropical mountain forest ecosystem vertical profile.
However, as the village’s land did not belong to the reserve and the community did not regulate their activities, there are frequently conflicts between the survival and protection which caused negative impacts to the long term biodiversity conservation.
Major activities included village conference, training (on biodiversity, beekeeping and product certification, biogas use and clean energy, and ICCA registration), publicity activities, registration of beekeeping cooperative and ICCA, community patrol and biodiversity image monitoring, community protection actions, and biogas construction.
In September 2014 the 3 villages signed “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” and complete the registered form/case study together with project team.