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Africa is the heart of
WildiZe
Foundation®, dedicated to education and
awar
eness
towards sustainable conservation. They work directly with African communities
and projects to understand from their perspective the inherent problems which
exist, so that they may support them in creating their own successful solutions
with respect towards gender, lifestyle,
resourc
es,
habitat and wildlife.
WildiZe
Foundation™ is a Colorado registered tax-exempt non-profit
organization under Section 501(c)(3)
of
the United States Internal Revenue Service Code, dedicated to sustainable
protection and conservation efforts with respect to Earth's diminishing wildlife,
habitats, and indigenous cultures of Africa, and to increasing awareness,
education and the exchange of ideas toward community and grass-roots based
conservation endeavors. They accomplish their mission and goals by linking
with like minded people and organizations around the globe to further
partnerships towards a healthier Earth and her communities. Their motto :
"We have only one Earth. If WE don't care, who will?"
WildiZe
Foundation® links with existing resources including like-minded
organizations and also assists groups by assisting them in getting funding.
Visit their website to see the groups they are supporting and how you can
help.
Karl Ammann is a wildlife photographer and conservation
activist and a leader of the campaign that
gai
ned worldwide recognition of the bushmeat crisis
in Africa. He is any advisory director to several organizations, including
the World Society for the Protection of Animals, The
Cheeta
h Conservation Fund and Biosynergy Institute.
Karl carries a camera as his sidearm, shooting scenes of chimpanzees and
gorillas being butchered for sale as expensive commercial bushmeat. Ammann's
reports and documentaries convinced the European Parliament and leaders of
over twenty African states to sign a proclamation against the slaughter of
apes and caused the government of Cameroon to convene a national conference
on the illegal bushmeat trade.
Development of appropriate
conservation and environmental plans requires good information.
Porini
Resources has a sound history in East Africa, combining scientific
expertise with local values and knowledge. Porini provides services in Ecological
Assessment and Environmental Consulting. They use environmental assessment
and rapid ecological assessment (REA) techniques to provide vital information
for conservation planning and impact assessment.They are an international,
multi-disciplinary team with wide-ranging skills in environmental conservation.
Each member of the team has special skills such as indigenous botany, ornithology
and
mammal tracking. All
team members speak fluent Swahili and have solid knowledge of natural history
of East Africa, its peoples, parks and reserves. It is their conviction that
without community involvement, wildlife has no future in East Africa. Most
wildlife in Kenya and Tanzania exists outside of national parks and reserves
- clearly, the responsibility lies with the public. Each member of Porini's
team has wide-ranging experience working with local communities in Kenya,
Tanzania, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The
Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity
Project (LTBP) is a UNDP/GEF funded project aimed at helping the
riparian countries to produce an effective and sustainable system for managing
and conserving the biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika into the foreseeable future.
The project is implemented by institutions from
Burundi, D.R. Congo, Tanzania and Zambia, with advice from
international agencies. The initial 5 year phase of the project was completed
on 31 July 2000 with the principal output being a regionally agreed Strategic
Action Programme. The Programme involved local communities in its developent,
embracing the dual needs of development and conservation and forms a detailed
guide for further phases of the project. If you'd like to find out more or
to see how you can help, you can email
them directly.
The bushmeat crisis is
the most significant immediate threat to the future of wildlife populations
in Africa. Hunting of wildlife to meet people’s
demand for protein may still be sustainable in
the few remaining areas where population densities are less than 2 people/km2,
trade routes are poorly established, and human population growth rates are
low. The scale of the illegal, commercial bushmeat trade now occurring in
Africa, however, is driven by markets with large, rapidly-growing populations
of consumers and is considered by experts to be unsustainable. This
commercial-scale trade threatens the survival of numerous species as well
as posing considerable health and economic threats for future generations.
The Bushmeat Crisis
Task Force (BCTF), founded in 1999, is a consortium of conservation
organizations and professionals working throughout Africa and dedicated to
the conservation
of wildlife populations threatened by illegal,
commercial hunting of wildlife for sale as meat. The BCTF operates under
the direction of an elected Steering Committee and is funded by Supporting
and Contributing Members. BCTF's primary goals are to: a) work with the general
members of the BCTF to focus attention on the bushmeat crisis in Africa;
b) establish an information database and mechanisms for information sharing
regarding the bushmeat issue; c) facilitate engagement of African partners
and stakeholders in addressing the bushmeat issue; and d) promote collaborative
decision-making, fund-raising and actions among the members and associates
of the BCTF. For more information about the BCTF and the bushmeat issue,
please visit their
website or email them
directly.
Nouvelles Approches is a Belgian NGO active in the
National Parks of
DRC. They have been working in co-operation with
the Congolese ICCN (Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature)
since 1997. They are active in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, where they work
with the GTZ (German Co-operation) and Berggorilla and Regenwald Direkthilfe.
They are the only NGO helping the Upemba and
Kundelungu National Parks in Katanga and as a coordinator of the DRC Parks
Relief Mission, they will soon be active in Salonga National Park/South.
The Katanga National Parks needs are easy to summarise... they lack everything.
At least nowadays, the salaries of the rangers are paid regularly by the
parent authorities. In a warring country, this indicates a real willingness
to keep the parks, which is already a positive thing in itself. There is
more information on how you can help on the
Nouvelles
Approches website; alternatively you can
email them directly.
For more information on Democratic Republic of Congo, click
here.
If you would like to
contact us please email
terry@africanconservation.org
