In southern Cameroon, participatory mapping is helping communities protect wildlife and manage hunting zones.
Through the #SWMProgramme, local knowledge is guiding action, strengthening trust, & supporting shared responsibility.
Learn more:🔗 https://bit.ly/4swdhkZ
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In southern Zambia, enterprise training is helping communities move from hunting to alternative livelihoods.
Through the #SWMProgramme, cooperatives are strengthening skills, governance, and income options.
Read more:🔗 https://bit.ly/3NJTTSf
#Trees4Resilience
In southern Cameroon, participatory mapping is helping communities protect wildlife and manage hunting zones.
Through the #SWMProgramme, local knowledge is guiding action, strengthening trust, & supporting shared responsibility.
Learn more:🔗 https://bit.ly/4swdhkZ
#Trees4Resilience
From hunting to enterprise
In Zambia’s Nyawa Chiefdom, the #SWMProgramme is helping communities build sustainable enterprises.
Cooperatives, training & market access are turning livelihoods into conservation solutions.
Read 🔗: https://bit.ly/3NJTTSf
@fao.org @cirad.bsky.social @wcs.org
The Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme strengthens wildlife conservation & sustainable use, while improving the well-being & food security of rural populations in 15 participating countries.
@fao.org's Hubert Boulet explains 👇
🔗 https://bit.ly/4jjVacF
#SWMProgramme #WorldWildlifeDay
Le #SWMProgramme renforce la conservation et l'utilisation durable de la faune sauvage, tout en améliorant le bien-être et la sécurité alimentaire des populations rurales dans les 15 pays participants.
Hubert Boulet, de @fao.org, explique 👇
🔗 https://bit.ly/4rMzaMB
#JournéeMondialeDeLaVieSauvage
Across the Kavango Zambezi landscape, countries are working together to support wildlife and communities.
Hear from Dr Nyambe Nyambe, Executive Director of the KAZA Secretariat, on cooperation and the #SWMProgramme Legal Hub.
Watch: 🎥 https://bit.ly/40ayww6
Tick-borne diseases continue to harm livestock and livelihoods across rural Zambia.
In Nyawa Chiefdom, the EU-funded #SWMProgramme supports community-run spray races that protect cattle, strengthen local incomes and contribute to a #OneHealth approach.
Watch to learn more:➡️ https://bit.ly/3LFUpQw
Indigenous Peoples are the stewards of #biodiversity. How can we better engage & support them?
This publication outlines approaches to empowering Indigenous Peoples and local communities in wildlife & food security management.
Download: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4btoLOl
#SWMProgramme
Indigenous monitors in Guyana’s Rupununi are using AI, eDNA and camera traps to track biodiversity, combining local knowledge with science to inform national action.
Read the full story:🔗 https://bit.ly/4pFKvga
#Trees4Resilience #SWMProgramme
🌍 Join us next Tuesday for the next #ENTRVST scientific webinar on wildlife health surveillance and wild meat value chains—two critical components in preventing future pandemics. 🐾
Click here to register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#OneHealth #SWMProgramme #Conservation #AsiaPacific
Unsustainable wild meat trade is threatening species and raising health risks.
At #ICCB2025, experts shared new research and approaches to make wild meat value chains safer, fairer, and more sustainable.
Read more:🔗 https://bit.ly/4rwiDfV
#SWMProgramme #Trees4Resilience
A hunter in Gabon notices sick wildlife.
Years ago, it’d be ignored.
Today, it could prevent the next pandemic.
Find out how the #SWMProgramme takes a #OneHealth approach, empowering communities to contribute to global health security.
👉 buff.ly/dRUo8GL
#OneHealthDay | A hunter in Gabon notices sick wildlife. Years ago, it would have been ignored. Now it could stop the next #pandemic.
🔍 Find out how the #SWMProgramme takes a #OneHealth approach, empowering communities to contribute to global health security 👉 short.do/DgG82v
@fao.org
🌍 Lessons in #WildlifeGovernance from the Ground Up 🦏
Join our webinar Oct 23!
Real experiences from Namibia, Cameroon & DRC on:
✅ #Community-based conservation
✅ Practical governance models
✅ #Wildlife-health-trade nexus
👉 tinyurl.com/rct9vxuj
#SWMProgramme #OneHealth #WildlifeGovernance
How can people & wildlife thrive together?
Wildlife and People in the Rupununi shares lessons from 5 years of research by the #SWMProgramme, blending science & local knowledge to balance food security and conservation.
Read:🔗 https://bit.ly/3WlLKnJ
#Trees4Resilience #IUCNCongress
The #SWMProgramme latest study in People&Nature explores how communities in Zimbabwe coexist with elephants.
𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬:
📍 Conflict ↑ near forests & water
❤️ Cultural pride drives tolerance
🤝 Coexistence needs early warnings & livelihood diversity
More👉 bit.ly/3WcYFID
@peopleandnature.bsky.social
How can sustainable wildlife efforts champion gender equality through fish farming?
Empowering women through sustainable fish farming is helping a Zambian community transform traditional roles while protecting wildlife.
Read:👉 https://bit.ly/4fL0p3s
#SWMProgramme #Trees4Resilience
The 7th #SWMProgramme Community Conservancy Newsletter is out!
Catch up on 6 months of conservation action in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia & Zimbabwe—strengthening livelihoods and protecting wildlife in the #KAZA region.
Read:👉 https://bit.ly/4nbnGQv
#Trees4Resilience
It is here! 📖 Issue 7 of the SWM Community Conservancy Project Newsletter is out.
Catch up on all the groundbreaking work happening across the KAZA landscape , from translocation triumphs to community partnerships.
Read & share 👇
bit.ly/4matGYr
#KAZA #ConservationNews #SWMProgramme
📢The IUCN's MOOC-RESSOURCE is now open!
This free, certified course will strengthen your skills in identifying and counting waterbirds in North and Sahelian Africa, and show how this knowledge supports wetland conservation and local livelihoods.
Enroll now🔗 https://bit.ly/456jU4p
#SWMProgramme
Mapping the wild meat trade in Cameroon: A shared tool for smarter, fairer management
In Yaoundé, stakeholders mapped Cameroon’s wild meat trade to guide more sustainable and inclusive management
Full #ForestsNews story:🔗 https://bit.ly/3IVoHwI
#SWMProgramme
📢The IUCN's MOOC-RESSOURCE is now open!
This free, certified course will strengthen your skills in identifying and counting waterbirds in North and Sahelian Africa, and show how this knowledge supports wetland conservation and local livelihoods.
Enroll now🔗 https://bit.ly/456jU4p
#SWMProgramme
🇱🇦 In Vientiane today:
27 actors from health, animal, wildlife & environment sectors
🧩 Co-designing a One Health surveillance system under the SWM Programme.
#OneHealth #SWMProgramme #Laos #Grease_Network #Surveillance
@cirad.bsky.social
@manonmispi.bsky.social
@prezode.bsky.social
🎤 We're all set up at #ICCB2025! @iccb2025.bsky.social
Come and say hi, chat about #wildlife management, #community-based conservation, #wildmeat and #onehealth!
#SWMProgramme @ilri.org @cifor-icraf.org @fao.org @wcs.org @cirad.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @afd-france.bsky.social @ehpatel.bsky.social
🚀Looking forward to this year's #ICCB2025 @iccb2025.bsky.social!🌿
🎤Next Thursday, we will be talking about how to manage #wildmeat value chains to maximize #foodsecurity, #livelihoods, #biodiversity and #health.
We'll also have a #SWMProgramme booth! @wcs.org @cifor-icraf.org @cirad.bsky.social !
#HappeningNow! The #SWMProgramme is engaging Zimbabwe’s Parliament on the Parks & Wildlife Amendment Bill, crucial for conservation, climate resilience & local livelihoods. 🌍🦓
✅ Sustainable wildlife management
✅ Community-based governance
#Zimbabwe #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity
Find out how the #SWMProgramme has been developing solutions to wildlife conservation and food insecurity since 2018 in this short summary. Launched on #BiodiversityDay (22 May) 👇
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Working with @ec.europa.eu @cifor-icraf.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social @fao.org @wcs.org AFD FFEM
#Biodiversity is at the heart of sustainable development.
In Nyawa Chiefdom, the #SWMProgramme is working with communities to strengthen food systems, protect ecosystems, and create a future where both people and nature thrive.
🔗: bit.ly/4jjVacF
#TreesPeoplePlanet
📢 Happy #BiodiversityDay2025!
Communities play a vital role in protecting our planet's biodiversity. Find out more about the #SWMProgramme innovation case-study on the novel approaches for engaging indigenous peoples and local communities on wildlife conservation. 👇
bit.ly/4jgqvgj
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