CONSERVATION NEWS
Nsefu.org Team joins local schools for Eco Game Drive.
Local kids get to see wildlife close up!
The Nsefu team had a wonderful time with school children in the park. This was our second game drive with the kids. There are from three schools in the area, Nsefu Primary, Kawaza Primary and Chitunda Community School. And there were a total of 15 children on the drive.
Visiting the new Conservation Club at Chulu School
The power of youth coming together for the future!
The Nsefu Team visited the Chulu School to witness the formation of the Chulu School’s Conservation Club. Chulu in the local language means Ant Hill. The students are standing on the Ant Hill that the school was named after.
Nsefu.org's Sewing Program is making a difference in the Mfuwe community.
Our sewing program is part of our multi-pronged approach at putting an end to poaching.
By empowering local women, we’re working towards self-sustainability.
Nsefu.org’s Sewing Program is beginning to have a real impact on the local Mfuwe Community in Zambia. Local women are now producing products for sale and are on the road to becoming independent, rely less on donations, and are better able to support their families. This creates an environment where poaching will no longer be a necessity for survival.
In the video below, the Nsefu.org Sewing Team was visiting the Baobab Craftshop which is sponsored by Jen and Mike from Marula Lodge.
Your donations helped to get this program off the ground and with your continued support, we hope this grow in to a self-sustaining enterprise.
Zimbabwe May Withdraw From Endangered-Species Deal to Sell $300 Million of Ivory
Zimbabwe may consider withdrawing from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
June 10, 2019, 10:56 AM PDT
A Zimbabwe National Parks game ranger holds an elephant ivory tusk in the country's ivory vault in Harare, on June 2, 2016.
Zimbabwe may consider withdrawing from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species because the organization won’t allow it to sell its ivory stockpile.
The southern African nation with the world second-largest population of elephants has a stockpile of tusks worth an estimated $300 million and needs the revenue, Fulton Mangwanya, director-general of the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, told lawmakers in the capital, Harare on Monday.
While CITES has banned international ivory sales to curb poaching, frustration is growing over the fact that “other countries are prescribing how we should handle our animals,” Mangwanya told a parliamentary committee on environment and tourism. Withdrawing from CITES would have the support of neighbors Botswana, Zambia and Namibia, which all have large elephant populations of their own, he said.
In recent years, Zimbabwe has raised money for conservation by selling elephants to China. The size of the population, estimated at 84,000, is twice what can be supported by available food and land, according to the government. Botswana last month lifted a hunting ban on wildlife because it says it has too many elephants, which destroy crops and sometimes kill people.
The last once-off commercial sale of stockpiles of elephant ivory from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe that CITES allowed was completed in 2009. Most of the tusks went to China and Japan.
“Countries like Japan are supporting us, China is dilly-dallying, I’m not quite sure why, but they are the ones that want our ivory,” Mangwanya said.
Laptops & Tablets for the Chabwera School
We’d like to thank Tellico Village Computer Users Club for their generous donation.
To say we are proud would be the understatement of the century! Here are our Nsefu Wildlife Board members in Zambia with our school teachers receiving all the wonderful donations of computers and tablets. It is such a big deal they had speeches from the Principal and the children read a conservation speech! YOUR donations truly impact lives. We take things for granted here in the US, but they have little and these things make them so excited. So much so.... they threw an EVENT for these items. THANK YOU TO ALL WHO DONATED...and we can always use more. No one will appreciate it more than the lovely people of Nsefu. THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US AT TEAM NSEFU!
Special thank you to our wonderful friends Tellico Village Computer Users Club and Ben Protas and Danny Donnelly of Five Star Communications for your treasured support!