Biodiversity monitoring report: Loru Conservation Area
Monitoring underway in Loru ©WWF-Australia/Damian Mobbs.
The Loru Conservation Area in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, is a community-led forest carbon project. From 2021–2024, customary landowners and community rangers monitored biodiversity across the area, recording 25 species, including endemic and IUCN-listed species.
Across the four-year period, key indicator species—such as the yellow-fronted white-eye, golden whistler and Vanuatu megapode—showed stable or increasing detections, reflecting the positive impact of local management actions. Monitoring also showed the continued presence of threatened and endemic species—such as Vanuatu kingfisher, coconut crab and Vanuatu flying fox—confirming Loru’s ecological significant habitat.
By embedding participatory monitoring and land management within customary governance systems, this project strengthens local stewardship while generating measurable biodiversity and climate outcomes.
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