Tanzania Project Featured in Darwin Initiative Newsletter

We’ve just received the great news that Frontier’s Tanzania Wildlife Tracking and Community Adventure Project has been featured in DEFRA’s Darwin Initiative Newsletter.

The Darwin Initiative aims to promote biodiversity, conservation and the sustainable use of resources around the world and as such is it a great honour to be featured in their newsletter which reports on some of the most important conservation and biodiversity projects around the world.

Founded at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 by the UK Government the Darwin Initiative helps countries that are rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources meet their conservation objectives. Out of the 96 active projects funded by the Darwin Initiative in 80 countries around the world – Frontier’s Wildlife Tracking and Community Adventure Project was selected to be featured in the newsletter. Everyone at Frontier London HQ and all our field staff working out in Tanzania are ecstatic and delighted at the news.

Frontier’s staff and volunteers out on the Wildlife Tracking and Community Adventure project in the Kilombero Valley in Tanzania have successfully protected two vital wildlife corridors between the Udzungwa Mountains and the Selous Game Reserve. These corridors are essential to the conservation of wildlife in the area and will ensure that large mammals can pass between these reserves.

We have been working with local communities to try and preserve the remaining wildlife corridors in the area, which recently came under threat from the expansion of local villages. Frontier’s staff and volunteers set up workshops to explain the concepts and local people were elected to map the villages so that Land Use Management Plans could be devised to help mitigate the impact of local village expansion on the wildlife corridors. As a result two corridors including the highly threatened Ruipa corridor were successfully protected and all involved were highly pleased with the outcome. Everyone here at Frontier is hugely proud of all our staff and volunteers that worked so hard to make this project a success – thank you all for your amazing contribution.