Forest Conservation – Protecting water, ecological connectivity & livelihoods
Forest conservation in Tanzania, it turns out, often involves meetings in air-conditioned offices in Dar es Salaam. As many field biologists find out at one point or another during their career, it is not all camping in montane forests and observing and recording rare and interesting birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians (not to mention the […]
Avoided Deforestation to Benefit Chimpanzees and the Community
Designing a project area around our closest living relative whilst creating land security and economic opportunity. As I sit here, perched on the top of a rocky outcrop, looking over seemingly endless rolling hills of Miombo woodland east of Mahale National Park in western Tanzania, its quite easy to feel as if the nearest human settlement […]