Advocacy / Forest and water / Marine and wetlands / Species conservation and Education / Community work
EAWLS runs diverse conservation projects within the following programme areas, which form an integral part of Society projects:
• Forests: We engage local people in developing forest management and conservation practices that will improve the status of the regions forests and increase benefits from them.
• Marine and Coastal Areas: With coastal people, we work to ensure that coastal and marine biodiversity is protected and used wisely in order to provide social and economic benefits while maintaining ecological integrity.
• Wetlands: We support conservation and wise use of wetlands and freshwater ecosystems.
• Drylands and Biodiversity Conservation: We endeavour to ensure that key elements of dry land ecosystems and biodiversity are brought under appropriate conservation regimes.
• Conservation Education and Research: Through community initiatives, public discussions and dissemination of educational material we inform the public on conservation issues to help them make informed decisions.
• Advocacy: Our key strength lies in advocating for environmentally sound policies and legislation in East Africa.
In all its initiative, EAWLS works with local communities, organisations and governments to ensure that conservation of wildlife and the environment is a main component of the development agenda.
The Society started running hands-on projects in the early 1990s. Some of the initiatives are long term and others are one-off activities and may be as short as one-day workshops. Some projects are funded by different donors in phases whereas others are collaborative, involving the Society and other organisations.
In your newsletter of today you quote “read more” concerning Naivasha Wetlands Day but there is nothing about it when you click on “read more”. Can this be rectified for your overseas readers? Or perhaps I was unlucky. The next article with a similar instruction to “read more” has a fuller piece on its subject matter.
Incidentally, I trust your members will be informed about the fact that the Malewa River has been diverted to Nakuru to meet the needs of a vast population there. When I was a child, growing up on the shores of Lake Naivasha, we depended on the Malewa for the water that flowed into the lake. Water sometimes reached up as high as the Morendat bridge. Cut off the Malewa and how, one wonders, is the lake to reach its former levels?