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2006 Project News |
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In
July of last year we received a grant from the Disney Wildlife Conservation
Fund, for which we are very grateful. This grant was for our education
and community forums program. With this grant we spent most of our time
in the field from September to December and accomplished a great deal.
We carried out follow-up community meetings in which discussions were
held about the benefits of wildlife and ways for communities to initiate
their own environmentally sound business ventures. Committees were formed
and proposal deadlines were set, and our working group has promised to
assess the proposals and assist with gaining funding and technical support
to see these projects to fruition. We would LIKE to be able to fund some
of them ourselves, but are not yet at that administrative or funding level.
The groups have been responding and several proposals have come in, we
are in the process of assessing them now. Some are for better poultry
keeping projects, some for cultural tourism activities, beekeeping, etc.
The key to these ventures is that all of them are initiated by the local
people.
Learn more about the Disney Wildlife Fund at their web site.