tumba_lediima-description
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
Type and IUCN Category: Nature reserve, IUCN category: not reported. It was included in the Ramsar site ‘Ngiri-Tumba-Maindombe’ on 24 July 2008.
Size (hectares): 741,100
Date of creation: 7 December 2006 (decree No. 053/CAB/MIN/ECNEF/2006)
CARPE landscape: Lac Télé-Lac Tumba
Management plan: According to Congolese authorities, management plan has been developed for Tumba Lediima.
Local communities: The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK)’s mapping work in the area shows that approximately 100,000 people live inside the Tumba Lediima reserve, and many more live in its periphery (Mapping for Rights). Local residents are mostly Bantu farmers, though occasional presence of indigenous groups coming from Bikoro territory has been reported in the north of the reserve (RFUK field research).
Administration: The reserve is managed by the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) with technical support from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) under USAID’s CARPE programme.
Biodiversity information: Lake Tumba is a key habitat for migratory birds. The north of the reserve is covered by the rainforest. Forest elephants are still present in the reserve, as well as bonobos, sitatungas and forest buffaloes (IUCN/PACO 2010).
Neighbouring and overlapping extractive industries (Mapping for Rights)
Three logging concessions currently overlap the reserve:
- (1) concession 020/11, managed by SCIBOIS and
- (2-3) concessions 015/11 and 026/03 managed by SOFORMA/SODEFOR.
In addition, one oil exploration permit has been granted inside the reserve: concession 01, managed by COMICO since 2013. Tumba Lediima is the only protected area in RFUK’s sample of 34 that has logging and oil concessions within, rather than around the area.
Information available on funding:
(Please note that some of these grants may be covering several protected areas or landscapes.)
CARPE Phase III, “Central Africa Forest Ecosystems Conservation (CAFEC)“, Lac Télé-Lac Tumba Landscape (2014-2018)
Funders: USAID and Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
Objective: “To maintain the ecological integrity of the humid forest ecosystems of the Congo Basin through sustainable management of forests and reduction of threats to biodiversity” (USAID 2013).
Project area: Lac Télé-Lac Tumba Landscape
Funds: Between $9,540,000 and $11,200,000 from USAID and NICFI for landscape programme, plus match funding (amounts unknown) from grant recipients Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and WWF (USAID 2013, CARPE 2014). Specific amount assigned to Tumba Lediima unknown.
Catalyzing Sustainable Forest Management in the Lake Tele-Lake Tumba (LTLT) Transboundary Wetland Landscape (according to publicly available data, project implementation has not yet started.)
Funders: The World Bank, via the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Objective: To conserve biodiversity, ensure sustainable resource use and maintain carbon sink functions in the Congo Basin Swamp Forest and Wetland Landscape around Lake Tele and Lake Tumba
Project area: Lac Télé- Lac Tumba landscape
Funds: $2,100,000, with co-financing of $6,600,000 mainly coming from CARPE partners WCS and WWF ($5,000,000) and the Congolese government ($1,000,000).
Lac Tumba Lediima Reserve & Ngiri Triangle (2008-2011)
Funder: German development bank (KfW)
Objective: Establish a nature conservation area
Project area: Tumba Lediima
Funds: $1,490,000
Mapping of Carbon Reserves and their Modelling and Conservation by Carbon Payments in the Forest Belt (Carbon Map & Model Project), 2012-2018
Funder: KfW Development Bank, the German Federal Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Nuclear Security (BMU) through the International Climate Initiative
Objective: Comprehensive mapping of carbon reserves in DRC forests in order to produce a national scale biomass map for the entire forest coverage of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) along with feasibility assessments of different forest protection measures within a framework of a REDD+ model project, as well as building of the necessary technical capacities.
Grant manager: WWF Germany (see Carbon Map), DRC Ministry of Environment, Conservation of Nature and Tourism, local partners
Funds: €6,366,000 across the DRC (Specific amount dedicated to Tumba-Lediima unknown).