Swaziland Game Reserve Project
"Quest4Change aims to advance the education of young people living in areas of ecological and scientific importance"
Quest4Change has been working in Swaziland since 2000. Working with local people and the Lumbombo conservancy we aim to help conserve Swaziland's spectacular reserves for future generations.
What's the problem? Poor management and infrastructure of reserves leads to conservation areas and animals being threatened. This can lead to local communities resenting the presence of the reserves, the result of which is that invaluable conservation areas and their wildlife are at risk of destruction.
How Quest4Change helps: We work with locals, improving the management and infrastructure of four Lubombo conservancy reserves so that the parks are viewed more favorably by local communities, educating them as to the benefits of the reserves and their potential for income generation. This means that these important conservation areas and their wildlife can be preserved for the use of future generations.
Latest News: The long term goal is to work on cross conservancy projects to help bring down the fences within the reserves in Swaziland. Quest will work in partnership with the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area and the internationally recognised Peace Parks Foundation to work towards the creation of a wildlife corridor that spans international boundaries.
Achievements (updated December 2009)
- Have constructed 2 Neighbourhood Care Point (NCP) classrooms
- Help construct and extend Majambeni Orphan School
- Built and helped maintain 2 Environmental Education Centres (EEC) and design/production of relevant resources including numerous information boards.
- Built two food distribution kitchens at Shewula Primary and Secondary schools.
- Have constructed 2 bird hides
- 2 picnic sites have been built using local materials.
- Rabbit and chicken breeding hutches built to show alternatives to poaching.
- 2 pit latrines built
- Approx. 20,000 man hours of scientific survey work
- Renovation of 5 classrooms, 2 plant nurseries, an environmental education centre and a kitchen; Initiation of eco-friendly water recycling project
- Production of 100s of tourist information boards and signs produced, as well as leaflets and maps for 3 reserves.
- Creation of interactive educational trail and activity trails
- Over 100 kilometres of trails cut, marked and mapped
- Over 100 kilometres of fences checked and repaired
- Donation of specialist equipment including GPS, cameras, binoculars, books and software, as well as beds, cooking equipment and furniture
- Training courses provided in Ornithology and IT.
- Predator passages created between parks.
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Project partners:
Quest4Change is working with our project partners in Swaziland supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 7 - Ensuring Environmental stability.
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