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Mahenye Conservation and Community Development Programme
The Mahenye Communal Land is one of the first rural communities in Zimbabwe to embrace wildlife and tourism as a form of land-use within their area. Moved from their ancestral land in the 1960s to make way for the creation of the Gonarezhou National Park, the Shangaan community embraced poaching as a way of harvesting the resources from “their land”....
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Leadwood Institute Trust
Objectives: To provide facilities and services; to source expertise
and funding and to coordinate efforts that contribute to ecosystem
and wildlife conservation, environmental education and vocational
training; sustainable natural resource management and rural community
economic development throughout the south east Lowveld of Zimbabwe
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Objectives
The Sindisa Foundation is a registered United Kingdom Charitable Trust with the objective of supporting wildlife and ecosystem conservation, sustainable rural development and environmental education in southern Africa.
Introduction
The wildlife and wild places of Africa are an iconic
manifestation of the diversity of Life on Earth. They are also
the basic resource which can make a major contribution to the
sustainable economic development of much of Africa. However,
they are under threat from growing human populations, from
inappropriate land-use, from exploitive greed and from political
turmoil. The conservation of African wildlife and its inclusion
in the economic lives of rural people is not only critical for
Africa, it is a critical facet in the protection of the global
environment.
Africa
needs to be, and has a responsibility to be, at the forefront of
international conservation efforts. Today, the African effort is
being led by determined and passionate people – of all nations,
ethnicity and creeds – working tirelessly in the field. Their
goal is to secure the functionality and diversity of the African
wilderness and to use it as the basis for the sustainable
socio-economic development of the continents people. They need
every possible support and we need them to succeed.
Sindisa strives to provide a small part of that support and to
persuade others to do the same.
England and Wales Registered Charity No: 1110494
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