An ICOGRADA PROJECT
Through its community-centred conservation efforts, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) has empowered local communities with the tools needed to manage their natural resources for long-term economic gain and environmental prosperity.
JGI's snare intervention program not only supports snare removal teams, but also educates the local communities on creative economic alternatives. Currently, JGI is working with a group of local Ugandan women. Using recycled paper from magazines left in local hotels by tourists, the women make paper bead necklaces. Through innovative re-design, this program allows Ugandans to earn a higher income than they would with unsustainable practices.
JGI believes that sustainability begins with the collaboration of true stakeholders in the commercial bushmeat trade-hunters and especially woman market buyers and sellers. JGI's micro credit programs, in cooperation with local government and industries, present economic alternatives to those who formerly supported their families through poaching and market sale activities. Read More
