Warm greetings to our growing army of change makers and rewilders!
James Arnott
Preserving and protecting biodiversity through impact travel, land use planning, property & business development, education and empowerment | Orbis Expeditions | RAIC | Rewilding Africa CIC | African Conservancies
We have been extremely busy building the foundation upon which Rewilding Africa intends becoming a highly influential and meaningful contributor to the community conservation landscape in Africa.
Our goals are bold and ambitious and until we have successfully implemented our theory of change and the paradigm shift that is needed, we will continue to work selflessly towards a vision far greater than ourselves.
There has never been more of a need than NOW, to truly invest in and support initiatives and programs that empower the wilderness communities in Africa, to not only protect their own nature, but to also thrive from it, and ultimately without the need for continuous financial support and donor handouts from the global north and developed world.
?You can all play a part in this movement in some way or another and please spread the word, we still need many more change makers in our corner!
?James Arnott
Director & Co-founder?
Become a Rewilding Africa Member
?For those of you who are not yet subscribed members, please go online and register yourself as either an individual https://rewildingafrica.org.uk/membership-individual/ or business https://rewildingafrica.org.uk/membership-business/ member. Your contributions, no matter how much you can afford to give on a monthly basis, is so important for us to be able to continue with our work and will help fund aspects such as:
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Our Ambassador team is also growing!?
We now have 40 ambassadors from 19 different countries listed on?
These are all passionate individuals who have voluntarily joined our movement and who want to make a real difference. We are still looking to appoint more individual and business Ambassadors who are prepared to offer their services to help us achieve our goals.
Please meet one of our new individual Ambassadors representing Kenya.
Balmoi epitomises the type of person we need and who we believe may play a significant role, working hand in hand with our appointed beneficiaries, in helping finance, design, establish and manage our program in Kenya.
?To read his profile , please follow this link to the website:
Our latest approved implementation beneficiary partners ?
?We are pleased to announce we now have agreements in place with a number of implementation beneficiary partners, who we intend supporting with both funding and technical support in order to roll out our multiple land use, multiple revenue stream, Community Conservancy , Planning, Development and Management programs in their specific country of operation
?KENYA - Kenya Wildlife Conservancy Association (www.kwcakenya.com )
ZAMBIA - Elephant Charge (www.elephantcharge.org )
SOUTH AFRICA - African Conservancies (www.africanconservancies.org )
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ZIMBABWE - ZELA ( www.zela.org )
UGANDA -Climate Hub International (www.climatehubinternational.com )
?We are also in discussions with potential beneficiaries in Nigeria, Ghana, Madagascar, Tanzania, DRC, Togo, Botswana, Uganda, Malawi, Angola and Rwanda?
?To apply to become a country implementation beneficiary, please send an email to [email protected] and let’s have a conversation.
What is a multiple land use, multiple revenue stream Community Conservancy and why does Rewilding Africa believe this model is the most important community conservation intervention this century?
?The term Community Conservancy implies both COMMUNITY and CONSERVATION.? Rewilding Africa believes that communities around the globe hold the key to sustainable rewilding and the long term protection and management of our last remaining biodiversity, whilst benefiting from its sustainable consumptive and non consumption use, in a meaningful and well considered manner.
?The Rewilding Africa model relies on being able to bring together multiple land owners and communities that occupy the land surrounding national parks under one shared and agreed land use and management structure. By working together, these Community Conservancies firstly need to have nature positive formal master land use planning concluded, as a precursor to the creation of data rich spatial development frameworks and governance structures that in turn will identify and provide appropriate opportunities for investment and business development at the scale required to provide sufficient alternative livelihoods and make them self sufficient after an estimated 10 year program period.
?See below presentation link and do please reach out if you would like more information.
More news snippets..
?Rewilding Africa heads to Bournemouth University(United Kingdom)...
?A number of conservation students at Bournemouth University were given a presentation by our co-founder James Arnott in February. The talk focused around changing lives and the importance of creating alternative livelihoods as the key to Africa's conservation and the goal is now to present at Universities across the United Kingdom, in order to create awareness for our theory of change and grow our army of change makers.
?New Community Conservancy and investment directory website facility...
?Our country beneficiaries are now able to list and profile their community conservancy projects and investment opportunities within these conservancies on our website directory, to help attract funding , check it out here https://rewildingafrica.org.uk/landscapes/
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?Loziba Wildlife Reserve survives another elephant cull crisis, for now...
?Our fellow co-founder, Grant Fowlds pulls off yet another miracle and it appears he has again been able to save the Mawana/Loziba elephant heard from being culled, after a community member was recently seriously injured by one of the elephants. This community partnership reserve(www.loziba.com ) is in the heart of the proposed Loziba Community Conservancy in Zululand, South Africa, and Loziba(Pty)Ltd is still looking for donors and investors to get involved. Please reach out to Grant Fowlds on [email protected]
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Rewilding Africa partners with Orbis Expeditions to offer Rewilding Adventure travel to visit our various projects and have a unique African experience
?We are inviting donors and investors and other interested parties to please come and visit our rewilding projects and get a first hand experience of why we need to do what we need to do, meet with the communities and other stakeholders and have a good time whilst you are at it, with a safari adventure thrown in to compliment the do good work you will be doing!
?For more information go to https://www.orbis-expeditions.com/
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6 个月Amazing progress James and Grant Fowlds !