Honeyguide Foundation (Makame Wildlife Management Area) - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2022
Honeyguide Foundation is taking part in the Wildlife Ranger Challenge to raise awareness of the role of 49 rangers working to protect Tanzania's Randilen and Makame Wildlife Management Area ecosystem, and support an estimated 46000 livelihoods.
Makame Wildlife Management Area - Tanzania
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Rangers are Africa’s unsung heroes. They don’t just fight poaching - they are conservationists, teachers, community support workers, leaders and much more.
The Wildlife Ranger Challenge, organised by Tusk and culminating on 17th September, celebrates their many roles, and is raising much-needed funds to support their work.
Honeyguide empowers communities by building up their in-house capabilities to run Wildlife Management Areas as community-protected areas in an effort to achieve sustainability. Honeyguide started work in Makame Wildlife Management Area in 2018.
Makame already has an operating approach that uses minimal rangers for the area that is required to protect and cannot afford to make any rangers redundant. The goal is to maintain this structure and the team in place, to build their capacity to improve intelligence and to equip and continue to train this small RRU to deter any poachers. Honeyguide will prioritise funding for this unit over 2021/2 to ensure that they are able to continue to have both the RRU and the intelligence units operable during the year.
Funds from WRC 2022 would allow rangers to continue the 30 years of work to protect Bioko Island's vulnerable wildlife, especially the thousands of nesting turtles that come ashore each year and the endangered monkeys.
Give today, and the Scheinberg Relief Fund will match every dollar donated, amplifying your impact. Follow campaign updates on social media with #ForWildlifeRangers
Makame Wildlife Management Area - Honeyguide Foundation
Jul 15, 2022, 3:42:14 PMWe believe that the future of wild spaces in Africa hinges on community-driven solutions, where local communities are in the driver’s seat of conservation. When provided with the right tools, resources and support, communities have the capacity, skills, relationships and local knowledge to run conservation areas that safeguard their natural resources. For the community-driven model to succeed, initiatives must be locally owned and led to be sustainable. Image Credit: Monica Dalmasso
