Stories
East African Communities Embrace Benefits of Nature-Based Tourism
As communities across East Africa grapple with the impact of eco-threats—climate change, over-extraction of resources, and habitat and wildlife degradation—even world-famous tourist destinations have no immunity.
East African Communities Build Awareness, Change Behavior
A community member who once foraged resources from the forest is now planting trees instead.
East African Communities Reduce Human-Wildlife Conflicts
For the thousands of years that humans and wildlife have coexisted, the nature of these interactions—harmony or conflict—has depended on factors such as species or location.