As a result of living close to national park, farmers experience challenge of losing their crops from elephants. When elephants move from one park to another, they pass through farms and eat crops, something that affect income and food security of the community.ECOWICE is working with the Village natural resource committee and farmers group to establish a beehive fence that will protect their crops from elephant.Elephants don't like bees because they sting on their soft parts of skin like trunk and eyes.The project aims to support more than 100 farmers whom their farms are threatened by elephants.
ECOWICE supported farmers with sesame seeds
Sesame is now the highly dependable crop for farmers who face challenges from elephants. Since elephants don't eat sesame, farmers are now changing from growing elephant preferred crops to growing sesame. ECOWICE started by supporting 60 farmers by the year 2021 and now hundreds of farmers are turning into growing sesame, " I like growing sesame because elephants don't like them and they have good price at the market" Said Josephine Wahindi who has been growing sesame since year 2021. This year ECOWICE has supported more farmers with improved seeds and they are ready to apply organic farming practices in...
Establishment of Village Natural Resource Committee.
37.7% (33,428,000ha)of Tanzania land is forested where the forest ownership and management lies on state. Local community normally find themselves being excluded from earning forest benefits which in most cases drive them to utilize the forest illegally.With limited manpower and equipments, the government cannot manage to protect all forested areas and hence there is a need for engaging local people in forest conservation.The government through ministry of Natural resource and tourism agreed to develop ownership power of some forested areas to local community.In that case for a village to attain ownership, must have special committee for managing and protecting the...
Human-wildlife coexistence project along Nyerere national park
Human-wildlife coexistence project along Nyerere national parkWe are thrilled to start another project in Mbarang'andu Wildlife management Area along Nyerere National Park in Southern Tanzania.With the funding support from the Bio-Bridge Initiative, the project will address the critical issue of human-wildlife conflict and present innovative solutions that promote harmonious coexistence. The project is expected to address wildlife species that are highly in conflict with the adjacent community by causing crop loss and endangering human lives. The community will be involved to address various issues and propose suitable solutions, awareness raising and education will also be given to help the community...
Community needs assessment
In order to understand the challenges facing the community and wildlife, ECOWICE conduct a survey to both community and wildlife migratory area to a village adjacent to Mikumi national park.This activity is contributes to long term monitoring and conservation of wildlife migratory areas and corridors of Mikumi national park
JOIN US ON RESTORATION WEEK-MAKE A DIFFERENCE
ECOWICE is proud to announce its participation in Make aDifference Week — an annual week of global restorative action led by the Society forEcological Restoration where individuals and organizations fromaround the world host and participate in local volunteer events during the week of June4-11, 2022.As part of Make A DifferenceWeek, we are hosting an activity for the Collection ofgarbage for the healthy elephant migratory area of Mikumi national park. . This volunteer event will be held on Saturday 4th June 2022 at Mkata village adjacent to Mikumi national park. We invite you to participate!Book for your participation here; https://makeadifferenceweek.org/events/collection-of-garbage-for-healthy-elephant-migratory-area/ Launched by Society...
Pupils adjacent Mikumi national park visited Mikumi national park
As the future conservators of Mikumi national park, SAVE WILD club members of Mkata primary school visited Mikumi national park to experience the life of animals within the park. ECOWICE supports children adjacent to Mikumi national park to understand the behavior, habitat, and characteristics of various wildlife species they always encounter in their village.They also learn and experience tourism opportunities brought about by wildlife conservation.This tour is aimed at making children learn practically about wildlife and experience the benefits of wildlife to their life. The park ranger and conservation officers of Mikumi were able to talk to the kids and...
The visit of our partner ADRA Germany
We are grateful to meet Miss Natalie Luejens from our partner organization ADRA Germany who visited our office and project to villages adjacent to Mikumi national park. She has visited our farmer group at Mkata village which practices Community Conservation Bank, Sesame farming, and mushroom farming. She has also visited the SAVE WILD club at Mkata primary school and experience tree planting activities and wildlife games. In the end, We have shared a lot about areas of collaboration and how we can attain the goal of conserving wildlife and forests together. This is a good step toward our collaboration.
Time for plating trees
Time for planting treesAs we are starting the rain season, it’s time for planting trees. Save Wild Club members at Mkata primary school are ready to plant more than 800 tree seedlings from the tree nursery they established in November 2021. These plants are expected to be planted on the school farm and each member will take trees to plant at their homes.’
Volunteer with us!
Do you have a degree or diploma in Beekeeping, wildlife conservation, forests, or Food-related studies? We are now inviting you to volunteer with us. Our activities range from community support, value addition to marketing. If you are interested, please submit your application letter and Curriculum Vitae (CV) to savewild@ecowice.org. The deadline for application is Monday 6th December 2020