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Coffee BeansIbo Island, Quirimbas National Park
In 2006, Sindisa, in association with Ibo Island Safaris, supported an expedition of three graduate volunteers to Ibo Island. The result was, firstly, the production of two important reports, one on the effects of the Ibo Island Safaris lodge development in the Ibo community and the other a socio-economic report on the current status of the Ibo community and likely impacts of tourism development.

Marine Ecology at Ibo Island Secondly, a small Ibo Island Conservation Centre was constructed, in partnership with Ibo Island Safaris, and used as a facility to implement an English literacy programme aimed at tourism workers and the Island administration and to initiate an environmental education programme. Thirdly, a number of local and agricultural enterprise projects were investigated with a view to providing alternatives to the unsustainable harvesting of marine resources.

The programme was handed over to the Park Authorities and the Island Administration and continues to progress under their management. WWF, Ibo Island Safaris, TechnoServe and Conservation International are the major financial and expertise contributors to the development of the Quirimbas National Park and the Ibo Island Project.



Flamingos in San Sebastion estury Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary
The Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary (VCWS) is a 30000ha privately funded wildlife conservation area encompassing the San Sebastian Peninsula, south of the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park in central Mozambique. This project on the boundary of a large National Park, significant for its biodiversity and economic potential, encapsulates a cross-section of all the challenges that are currently crucial in conservation and rural development in Mozambique – ecosystem conservation, resource harvesting pressures and rights, poverty alleviation, private investment and tourism are some.

Seine net fish harvest In late 2006 Sindisa provide support and qualified volunteers for a project to help the Sanctuary to establish an holistic Conservation and Community Development Programme (CCDP). By the beginning of June 2007, Amita Vaux (the Project Coordinator), assisted by Nicola Jamie and Emma Clifton-Brown, brought the CCDP to the point where the Sanctuary was able to assume responsibility for implementation. The CCDP is now incorporated within their structures and a full time Conservation Manager is to manage the projects. Some of the issues covered by the CCDP include a general management plan; community health and HIV, a conservation centre, tourism impacts and policy requirements, deforestation and tree planting, alternative socio-economic enterprises, turtle protection, marine resource harvesting and game reintroduction.