Explore the relationship / interconnections between people, animals and the environment.
Examine cause & effect relationships in the community.
Access indigenous and historical knowledge of the community.
Identify issues of importance for an action project.
Community Mapping – What is it?
Community mapping is a vibrant way to tell a story of your neighborhood, village or city. Mapping involves identifying relationships, needs and resources, and recording them in the form of a map.
It highlights the rich complexity about how people, the animals and the environment interact and what issues might arise as a result of those interactions.
This becomes the Community Centered Conservation Project.
The success of this type of conservation is based on valuing and understanding the needs of the people in the community and their relationship to the environment – our environment and the wildlife.
The first step to develop this understanding is to create the community map that values and incorporates local and indigenous knowledge of the area.
Map must include all Vets, Animal based care centres or rehabs, Animal related businesses, Water and Sanitation points / fire hydrants in the area etc.
Where do we have gaps in our community? What services are needed? Why are these services needed, what impact will it have on our environment and the people and animals? What age groups will be affected by a certain action?
Do these during the day and areas you move around in at night - When doing a community map, mark all areas you feel safe with a green sticker, mark areas you feel unsafe in with a red sticker. The areas with the red-stickers need to be attended to. How to get started- Approach nearby home owners to tell them that you will be coming to clean up, and sign them up with our cause to conserve the community in which we live in.
Be passionate. Lets leave a healthy community for our children and the generations after that.
Call in Municipality if needed for larger tasks at hand for problems you can not or are not allowed to attend to, for example : Snapped electricity cables, live wires showing at electricity boxes, water leaks external to all properties etc.
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