Country	China
Name of scheme	Participatory Resources Monitoring (PRM) system
Biome (terrestrial; freshwater; marine)	Terrestrial
What is monitored	Human resource use and wildlife
Who compiles data	Community members (representatives of 12 villages) supported by government rangers (staff from the nature reserve or forestry bureau)
Number of community members involved	48 community members (2001)
Spatial scale. Size of area monitored	A total of 46,725 ha, divided on two areas (2004)
Methods used	Methods include, e.g., on-the-ground fixed point photography and village group discussions
Year of initiation	2001
Funded by	The scheme is funded by the Chinese and Dutch governments
Documents or publications available	Rijsoort and Zhang 2002, Rijsoort and Jinfeng 2005
Organizers and contact details	Zhang Jinfeng, Research Institute of Economic Forests, Yunnan Academy of Forestry, Heilongtan, 650204 Kunming, P.R. China. Jeannette van Rijsoort Department of Environmental Sciences, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 342, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands. E-mail: jvanrijsoort@casema.nl; Fax: +31-317-478078.
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