The pressure on Africa’s Natural Resources is intensifying.

As climate change forcefully pushes pastoralists deeper into arid landscapes in their search for pasture, some might encroach on dedicated conservation areas, or overgraze on critical wildlife dispersal zones and deplete these areas essential for the expansion of wildlife populations. Limited water resources are similarly unable to support human development and recovering wildlife species. Some rivers are essential to national development, feed protected wildlife areas as well as commercial agriculture and hydroelectric plants — but are equally overused. Apart from improving river quality, restoring supply to these water sources is urgent but requires intensive protection of its watershed where deforestation is increasingly prevalent.

Some communities are having to turn to bushmeat hunting or illegal poaching to make a living, putting pressure on already dwindling wildlife populations.

Communities Work

We work with local communities to protect wildlife , restore land for key species to roam freely, and increase economic opportunities for local communities, we’re debunking the perception that conservation and development are competing objectives.