Publication Date: March 31, 2014
Author: Kathleen H. Fitzgerald
A learning paper on a review of relevant statutes and an assessment of protected areas, conservancies and the implications of the indigenisation policy.
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Publication Date: March 31, 2014
Author: Kathleen H. Fitzgerald
Slide deck accompanying the report, titled "Using Innovative Land Conservation Tools in Africa to Protect Land, Enhance Resource Management and Improve Community Livelihoods". To secure Africa’s ecological integrity and maintain viable…
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Publication Date: March 26, 2014
Author: Cynthia Moses, Founder, International Conservation and Education Foundation
Filmmaker and INCEF Founder Cynthia Moses discusses how the project reaches audiences with 80 to 90 percent illiteracy to change behaviors, measure retained increase of knowledge and changes in attitudes…
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Publication Date: March 6, 2014
Author: Francis Tarla, former Principal, Ecole defaune de Garoua
Garoua Wildlife College (EFG) was created in Cameroon in 1970 to provide in-service wildlife training for francophone government agencies in sub-Saharan Africa. Since its inception, EFG has trained over 1300 students…
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Publication Date: February 25, 2014
Author: Estelle Raballand, Director, Chimpanzee Conservation Center
The Centre de Conservation pour Chimpanzés, or Chimpanzee Conservation Center (CCC), is the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Guinea, West Africa. This center is located in the Parc National du Haut Niger (PNHN),…
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Publication Date: February 5, 2014
Author: Emma J Stokes
Traditional tools, technologies and resources are not stemming the illegal killing and trading of endangered species and the resulting loss of biodiversity, such as tigers, rhinos, elephants, great apes and…
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Publication Date: February 5, 2014
Author: Jacky Ralaiarivony
Jacky Ralaiarivony shared his experiences working on WASH in Madagascar and the accomplishments made linking WASH to multi-sectorial initiatives such as the environment. "Conservation is a cross-cutting theme in Madagascar for water…
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Publication Date: February 5, 2014
Author: Tim Rayden
Elephant density and abundance maps. This report includes modeling approaches for the distribution and abundance of criteria species like apes and elephants. For policy recommendations, decisions on thresholds of significance for…
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Publication Date: February 5, 2014
Author: Tim Rayden, Wildlife Conservation Society
The objective is to develop a standard and widely accepted definition of significant concentrations of biodiversity, critical habitat or keystone species, which can be used to map HCV area In…
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Empowering Communities to Conserve the Mali Elephants in Times of War and Peace – slide presentation
Publication Date: February 3, 2014
Author: Dr. Susan Canney, Project Leader, The Mali Elephant Project, Mali Elephant Project at The WILD Foundation
Africa's northern-most elephant herd of 500-plus elephants migrates 600 kilometers or so from Mali to Burkina Faso and back each year. Drought, land degradation, and increasing human pressure endanger this…
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