Six Strategies

Training Environmental Leaders

A widespread and oft acknowledged barrier to effective wildlife conservation and natural resource management throughout Africa is the inadequacy of properly trained personnel in these areas. A recent study conducted in Tanzania revealed that there is a severe shortage in institutional capacity for training new leaders to spearhead wildlife conservation efforts within village lands. In addition, education programs in basic environmental issues and wildlife management for villagers are practically nonexistent.

The People & Predators Fund aims to demonstrate its commitment to raising the next generation of environmental leaders by providing educational opportunities for Tanzanian and international graduate students, as well as local community members and government wildlife officials.

Some of the Fund’s ongoing and future training initiatives include:

• A potential collaboration with the Tanzanian Wildlife Division to give courses at the Mweka School of Wildlife Management and the Likuyu Community Based Conservation Training Center in southern Tanzania.
• Opportunities for graduate students from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with which the Fund has an ongoing relationship, to develop summer research projects in collaboration with Tanzanian students.
• The future development of field training programs for students, village game scouts and wildlife officials in new wildlife monitoring methodologies.

six strategies

Human-Carnivore Conflict Resolution

Building Community Capacity

Training Environmental Leaders

Collaborative Carnivore Conservation

Non-Protected Area Conservation

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