Rangeland Guardians: Women Entrepreneurs for Rangeland Restoration
A project to empower pastoralist women to drive sustainable rangeland management, reduce poverty and restore livestock grazing opportunities in the wildlife rich Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem of northern Tanzania
Project aim
Our project pilots a novel, culturally acceptable and research-informed eco-entrepreneurial solution to rangeland restoration that we anticipate will scale well. Rangeland restoration will halt wildlife declines and reduce poverty among pastoralists, particularly marginalised women.
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Empowering 60 women to become catalysts of sustainable rangeland management
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Awareness campaign targeting >2,000 school students -advocating the importance of rangeland conservation and the opportunities deriving from rangeland restoration
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Restoring grazing opportunities for >10,000 adults and their families.
There are 4 main themes to this project:
Sustainable management restores grazing opportunities for livestock and wildlife. This can be driven by pastoralist women who are key agents of change.
Wildlife corridor in the Tarangire - Manyara ecosystem supports iconic biodiveristy, yet populations of Beisa Oryx, Zebra and Giraffe have recently declined by >80%.
More than 800,000 pastoralists rely on the northern Tanzanian rangelands for their livelihoods, which are at risk from societal and environmental change.
Rangeland degradation in northern Tanzania, driven by climate and societal change, threatens wildlife populations and food security for pastoralist communities.
More information?
Contact colin.beale@york.ac.uk or rob.critchlow@york.ac.uk to get more information about the project