Six Strategies

Building Community Capacity

The People & Predators Fund has consistently maintained a presence in local African villages, and it is intimately familiar with the impoverished and harsh circumstances in which a majority of these villages’ inhabitants live. For these people, the stresses of poor harvests, inadequate clean water, deadly diseases and limited educational opportunities often make the conservation of wildlife and natural resources a distant secondary priority.

The Fund is now advancing a new conservation ethic that highlights human development in all its aspects. This approach lies in contrast with previous conservation theory, which focused instead on simply preserving wildlife numbers with the assistance of local communities.

Currently, the Fund is focusing its new strategy on one community in Northern Tanzania, where it is hoping to establish a network of development organizations that can assist PPF in addressing specific problems such as poverty, malaria and AIDS. Furthermore, the Fund is continuing its work in assessing the potential of natural resources and wildlife to benefit villagers directly and in culturally-sensitive ways.

six strategies

Human-Carnivore Conflict Resolution

Building Community Capacity

Training Environmental Leaders

Collaborative Carnivore Conservation

Non-Protected Area Conservation

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