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The
African Mangrove
Network (AMN), is a network of African NGOs and CBOs working in
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field of sustainable management of marine and/or coastal ecosystems. Following
the example of the international community, which, for decades now has developed
awareness of environmental issues, these African NGOs, are recongised as
carrying the flag at international levels as harbingers in the fight to
protect
ecological balance. The AMN's participatory planning work has been undertaken
under the Project "Capacity building workshop for African NGOs and CBOs for
Sustainable Management of Mangrove Forests", funded by Netherlands Committee
for IUCN and implemented by AMN's provisional co-ordination team. Themain
aim of AMN is to promote the sustainable management of mangrove forests by
rehabilitating damaged ecosystems, protecting their species and developing
management plans.
The
West African
Bird Studies Association (WABSA) is
a conservation charity set up by a group of
local people who wished to help preserve the flora and fauna of The Gambia.
It is developing as a community-based grassroots eco-tourism organisation
that invests in environmental education, conservation projects and community
nature reserves. A sustainable development and environmental project proposal
has been put together in association with WABSA, to obtain international
funding. Parts of the proposal are starting to be implemented with help from
Exmoor Falconry in the UK, but more funding is required. The aims and objectives
of this project, and WABSA are:
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The Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA). EFA's
mission is to restore and protect the
environment. It operates primarily through environmental
education and awareness raising. It builds up communities' and institutions'
appreciation and understanding of environmental management and the impacts
of environmental damage on lives and livelihoods. EFA facilities community-led
programmes for environmental restoration, conservation and sustainable
livelihoods and
provides training and support in sustainable agriculture
and forest management, agro-forestry, energy conservation, sustainable income
generation including eco-tourism, and rehabilitation of degraded natural
resources. It is clear that EFA has a unique expertise in operating in conflict
zones, humanitarian and refugee operations, post-conflict reconstruction
and rehabilitation, and the transition to sustainable development. It has
worked with refugee and returnee communities in Liberia and Sierra Leone,
as well as in villages and communities in Sierra Leone to rehabilitate areas
damaged through mining and deforestation. EFA will:
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The
Pan African
Sanctuary Alliance, or PASA, is an
alliance of
sixteen primate sanctuaries from all over Africa. Due to
the rapid influx of orphan animals from increased logging, habitat destruction
and commercial development of the bush-meat trade, and lack of awareness
in primate range countries, sanctuaries have emerged on an ad-hoc basis resulting
in crisis management. This has made it difficult for long-term planning and
adequate collaboration between sanctuaries and primate experts. There is
a very evident need for general guidelines for the establishment of authorities,
site location, long term sustainability management practices, primate management
and health issues.
Pan African
Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) is designed to bring these sanctuaries
together.
Since 1969, the
Chimpanzee Rehabilitation
Project have been
workin
g to give orphaned chimpanzees the opportunity to grow
up free and independent in their natural environment, rather than leaving
them to their all too frequent fates as sad captives in a human world, or
worse, as substitute humans in a laboratory. They are now the longest running
chim
panzee rehabilitation project in Africa. They protect and
monitor a total population of sixty-three chimpanzees occupying three islands
in the River Gambia National Park. Many of these chimps were born on the
islands, the sons and daughters of the distressed orphans nurtured back to
health and rehabilitated there over twenty years ago. Three
infan
ts born recently are third generation - grandchildren of
whom they are extremely proud. The fact that these chimpanzees are able to
competently bear and mother their own offspring means they have succeeded
in saving not just the individuals brought to us but the many generations
that will follow. In 2000 the project was registered as a UK charity (No.1081151)
under the name of the
Chimpanzee Rehabilitation
Trust. Managing the project and protecting the islands is an ongoing
task, one to which there is no foreseeable end, for they will need to protect
the chimps for as long as humans continue to pose a threat to them. This
costs money, which they have to constantly generate. If you would also like
to contribute to the protection and well being of these chimps, then you
can, by simply adopting one of them.
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more information on Gambia, please click here.
If you would like to
contact us please email
terry@africanconservation.org
