CLN: fostering transformative change and adaptive management in southern Africa
Community Leaders Network is a collaborative grouping of rural representatives from Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Good recommendations, but they don't go far enough. Encouraging more gov. spending on conservation is unlikely to shift the needle in Africa. What we need is conservation that brings prosperity, whereby wildlife is an asset rather than a liability.
“T-shirts don’t save wildlife. Communities do.”
At a rally in Lusaka, rural Zambian voices spoke out against anti-hunting campaigns led by celebrities, calling for decisions to be made by those who live alongside wildlife.