LAR 1.1

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Competence Level

Category name:

Upholding laws and regulations

Category code:

LAR

Category function:

Ensuring that laws regulations and rights affecting protected areas and biodiversity are upheld.

Competence level:

LEVEL 1

Code:

1

Scope of work:

Completing specific and sometimes complex tasks and assignments under regular supervision.

Typical function:

SKILLED WORKER

Knowledge statement:

Identify signs and evidence of unauthorised activities and security threats in the field.

Knowledge criterion:

The main threats faced by the PA. Signs of illegal activity. Species targeted by poachers.

Performance criterion:

Recognising and identifying signs and evidence relevant to the threats and legal issues faced by a protected area. For example: signs of illegal logging (cut stumps sawmill sites extraction routes chainsaw noise); poaching (different types of snare and trap gunshots remains of poached animals); use of poisons; unauthorised access unauthorised resource use; unexploded ordnance; security threats (incursions traps potential confrontations).