This presentation by Dr. Tim Wittig is an overview and discussion of the problem of wildlife trafficking in East Africa and internationally and the efforts the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its partners are taking to address it. Event Resources Click…
Law Enforcement Monitoring (LEM) is a site specific way of keeping track of law enforcement efforts. For many years the World Bank/WWF's "Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool" (METT) has been used as a measure. METT has 12 Threat Areas & 30…
Conservancies are evidently as vital as a protected areas system in ensuring wildlife habitat integrity and improved livelihoods for stakeholder communities, supporting the case for conservancy development. The characteristics and the approaches taken towards successful conservancies—the ‘how’—forms the rational for…
The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is an umbrella organisation that aims to establish resilient community conservancies that transform lives, secure peace, and conserve natural resources in northern Kenya. There are now 33 NRT-member community conservancies, covering 4.4 million hectares of…
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been promoting responsible management of forest resources in the Congo Basin since 2000. This is done through sensitization, development of tools and frameworks to guide sustainable forest management, building the capacity of various…
The Salonga National Park (SNP) lies in the heart of the Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As Africa's largest tropical forest park (33,317 km2), the Salonga shelters one of the world's largest expanses of relatively pristine…
North Luangwa National Park is a pristine wilderness area in Zambia bordered by the Muchinga Escarpment and the Luangwa River, one of the few remaining free flowing major rivers worldwide. Together with surrounding Game Management Areas, the park is part…
Rangelands occupy 41% of the earth's land area, and have the potential to hold 1/3 of the world's terrestrial carbon. rangelands face enormous pressures, not the least of which includes land degradation from poor grazing practices. In spite of this,…
Naftali came to Congo over seven years ago and has spent most of his time there working directly with law enforcement. The very foundation for the application of law is unreliable and things do not always appear as they seem…
The Dzanga-Sangha Protected Areas (DSPA) located in the south western Central African Republic (CAR) and the northern edge of the Congo basin is managed by the CAR government, with significant financial and technical support from WWF. The 4,579 km2 DSPA…
