Adventures in REDD+
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Indigenous Tree Seedling Purchase – November 2010 Report
By Silvester Mkamaganga, Forester at Wildlife Works Carbon 13 November 2010 TREE SEEDLINGS PURCHASE INTRODUCTION The Kasigau Corridor REDD project has now created an economic incentive for the landowners and communities within the corridor to protect their forest. Wildlife Works will be working with the landowners and local communities to implement forest management plans that exclude the destructive use of forest resources. In that local communities are encouraged to raise indigenous tree seedlings in their own home made nursery in different containers and will be purchased by Wildlife Works for nurturing them to the right size then they will be taken back to the communities to be planted to the…
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Elephant Poaching on Rukinga Sanctuary
3 JANUARY 2011 – Eric Sagwe, Head Ranger On Monday 3 January 2011 having checked into Kasigau Corridor REDD+ Project headquarters in the morning, I and my team of eight Rangers, went out on an afternoon patrol through Rukinga Sanctuary. At 3.00pm we found some footprints of three people who we tracked off Rukinga and into a neighboring ranch. As we followed their tracks in the sand we came across their lunch break camp which was very recent, and showed evidence of bush-meat having been eaten – a small team of poachers. The tracks kept getting fresher and clearer until an hour and half later we knew we where very…
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WW hosts the Sixth Field Dialogue for Interests in Investing in Locally Controlled Forests
By Jimmy Eggers, Wildlife Works Special Projects Wildlife Works hosts the Sixth Field Dialogue for Interests in Investing in Locally Controlled Forests Sponsors include Wildlife Works, Nedbank As the owners and protector-operators of the Africa’s first carbon offset project under the new (2009) REDD guidelines, Wildlife Works was happy to recently host members of The Forests Dialogue (TFD) on November 29, 2010. There were some 47 members from all parts of the world, including Canada, the USA, Scandanavia, Europe, Asia, Central America, South America, and Africa. Delightfully, these travelers were able to mingle and exchange ideas with the chiefs and directors of the very communities adjacent to and supporting our REDD+…
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Sagalla Hill Tree Planting Program December 2010
By Silvester Mkamaganga, Foresterer Wildlife Works Carbon- 5th December 2010 NAYIBINGI TREE PLANTING PROGRAM INTRODUCTION Nayibingi Sports Club is a registered self-help group. It is located in Sagalla Hill, Voi District in Kenya. It started as a football club for youth but has since then branched into in to other areas in order to meet the needs of the village youth such as education, environmental conservation, drama and theater and other issues affecting the community. Through Nayibingi leader Robert Mwangala, Wildlife Works Carbon managed to participate in a tree planting program in the Sagalla community for the purpose of environmental conservation. Objectives The main objective is of this program is…
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Cheetah Sighting
Our rangers see wild cheetahs at least twice a month. I will probably see them twice in my lifetime. I had my first pass while driving through the sanctuary with the models for the third day of our photoshoot. As if they were waiting for the photographer, ready for their close up, they glided along the edge of the water tank silhouetting their sleek bodies against the morning skyline. Unfazed by our presence within their 15 feet radius, they went about their business of lounging in the dawn’s cool mist before the sun started baking the red Kenyan earth. Magnificent creatures.
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Green Charcoal, a partial solution to natural resource degradation in East Africa
By Jimmy Eggers, Special Projects Director, WWC On a worldwide basis, the destruction or degradation of forest vegetation by slash and burn agriculture and timber harvest is the largest contributor to increased CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. This is more than manufacturing emissions, machine exhaust emissions, and petrochemical by-product emissions combined. So by extension, some might say that forest resource misuse is the primary problem to be solved when looking at our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, and thereby improve our climate change outlook. In East Africa, a major portion of forest degradation is done by persons engaged in charcoaling. Charcoaling is a production process whereby indigenous hardwood trees and shrubs…
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Wildlife Works Eco Tourism Partner Camps International Win Eco-Warrior Award
Camps International Win Eco-Warrior Award On Thursday 25th November 2010 Camps International (CI) and more specifically Camp Kenya were awarded the Eco-Warrior Award for the Most Sustainable Community Based Tourism Enterprise in East Africa. The Eco-Warrior Awards were launched by Ecotourism Kenya in 2005 as part of their drive to broaden industry understanding of responsible tourism and are assessed against four main criteria; outstanding innovation, real achievements, sustainability of the initiative and its replicability. This has to be achieved whilst respecting the environment, local people and cultures, and linking with communities to positively empower economies and promote self-sufficiency and environmental governance. In the words of Ecotourism Kenya; ‘Camp Kenya partners,…
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Indigenous Tree Seedling Distribution Program November 2010
By Silvester Mkamaganga, Forester Wildlife Works Carbon – 25th November 2010 TREE SEEDLINGS DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM INTRODUCTION The seedlings, which have been bought from the community in the project area and nurtured in our green house to the right size to be planted in different degraded sites around to conform with the REDD’s concept. Objectives The objective of this activity was to distribute tree seedlings to different sites to be planted as to meet the objective of restoring degraded land and afforestation. Tree seedlings distribution Marungu Hill Conservancy approached different schools and community members, selling the idea of tree planting and doing quotations on the amount of tree seedling each sites needs.…
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Indigenous Tree Seedling Collection – A Call for Partnership
We would like to let everyone know that twice a year before the rains we will be buying tree seedlings from the Communities. This will provide a small but much needed income to the people who live here and an important stock of hardwood and indigenous trees for reforesting badly degraded areas. The seedlings need to be at least 6 inches long (15 cms) tall and can be presented to us in any container ….old water bottles, old plastic bags, or even a coconut shell. We will collect the seedlings from various collection points around the communities, these collection points and dates will be decided closer to the time. TREE…
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Luangwa River Valley in Zambia
By Mike Korchinsky, founder of Wildlife Works. Oct 28 2010 I went to the Luangwa River Valley in Zambia last week…these photos were taken by the owner during the wet season…I was there at the end of the dry season…can you say CARBON… This is what it looks like dry: and finally, the threat: * * * * * * * * * About Wildlife Works Carbon: Wildlife Works is the world’s leading REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), project development and management company with an effective approach to applying innovative market based solutions to the conservation of biodiversity. REDD+ was originated by the United Nations (UN) to help…