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Partners: African
Parks (Majete), Department of National Parks and Wildlife
USAID Contribution: $600,000
The Alliance will support community based
natural resource management and promote and encourage conservation
of wildlife and the habitat in Majete Wildlife Reserve. Communities
surrounding the Reserve will be provided access to microfinance
in order to develop income generating activities that support Reserve
conservation efforts. The Reserve provided no economic benefits
to the surrounding communities. Communities viewed the Reserve as
a source of cheap food (wild game) or firewood. As part of the Alliance’s
efforts to build community ownership of the Reserve, the Alliance
is restocking the game in the Park and promoting the Parks’
significant tourism potential given its close location to Blantyre.
Community members are being hired as game guards, builders, and
camp workers to support this restocking effort. Half of all the
profits generated by the Reserve will be shared with the surrounding
communities who will independently determine how the income will
be utilized. |
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