Today we celebrated world ranger day with the village natural resource committee of Mkata village. This committee is responsible for managing and protecting the village forest reserve, a wildlife dispersal area, and the corridor of Mikumi national park. We have conducted a focus group discussion to determine various issues they face in protection and management...
On world environmental day and the launching of the UN decade for ecological restoration, we collected tree seeds for restoring the wildlife corridor and dispersal area of Mikumi national park. The area has been degraded by the local community who cut trees to produce charcoal for income generation. The collected seeds have been handled by...
Join us on the World Environmental dayBy showing our contribution to the UN Decade of ecological restoration, We are going to collect seeds for native trees in the degraded wildlife dispersal area and corridor Mikumi national park. We shall walk in the forest while identifying trees and collecting their seeds. In the end, we shall...
Community Conservation Bank for sustainable incomeCommunity Conservation Bank(COCOBA) helps the community to solve their economic challenges while conserving wildlife and their environment. ECOWICE support the community adjacent Mikumi national park to earn sustainable income from environmental friendly income generating activities through long lasting community savings and banking loans model.
African savanna elephants are now endangered After some years of being treated as vulnerable, African savanna elephants are now listed as endangered in IUCN red list while forest elephants are now critically endangered. IUCN report shows African savanna elephants has decreased by 60% in the last 50 years while forest elephants have declined by 85%...
Many farmers in Mkata village get low to no harvests from their farms due to crop raiding by elephants. This has left them in serious poverty and food insecurity that drive them to turn into forest as their last hope. There is an increasing rate of charcoal production, where many farmers have turned into charcoal...
The training was done in two villages of Kwamsisi and Pozo . Participants were enhanced to develop various marketing strategies, develop marketing plan and financial management skills. This will help to ensure sustainable income generation and hence abandon destructive activities
Saadani national park cover an area of 1100 km2 , located in eastern Tanzania .It offers the unique combination of terrestrial and maritime ecosystems with main vegetation complexes; A heterogeneous forest-savanna-grassland mosaic; The ancient coastal forest on the Zaraninge Plateau; A shoreline with salt flats, coastal fringe forests, herbaceous dune vegetation and mangrove forests; mangrove...
Due to the current spreading of the pandemic covid 19 which is rapidly affecting many places in the world. We are postponing our field activities until when the government announce resumption
