![]() In turn, protecting the area and regulating access to the natural resources allows local communities to have the benefits of the land that they traditionally held. Furthermore, a woman with a salary in rural areas invests up to three times more than a man into their family and household. This is a better financial return for the local community than what trophy hunting had previously provided. ![]() IAPF ensures that 62% of operational costs go directly back to the local community, with the aim to turn biodiversity conservation into a community project – 80% of these costs reach the houses of the rangers. The armed unit working inside the wilderness area is also supported by an unarmed village scout program working in the adjacent communities. Recruits learn skills such as leadership, unarmed combat, patrolling, first aid, democratic policing, human rights, crisis management, information gathering and conservation ethics.Ī ranger's main duty is to work with the community in order to stop illegal wildlife crime, and activities include patrolling within and around the reserve, interacting with community members and liaising with local authorities. ![]() The project educates and trains recruits by experts in conservation and law enforcement, and the women who have graduated into the program receive the same law enforcement training and fulfill the same role as a male ranger. ![]() At the heart of Akashinga is the knowledge that communities are the best defence against illegal wildlife crime.Īkashinga employs the most marginalised women from rural communities, who have usually experienced violence or sexual abuse, and who have never received an income. It has a dual approach to empower disadvantaged women by training them as rangers and to reduce poaching. Akashinga is locally driven, retaining maximum available benefits and management responsibility to motivate conservation. The Akashinga project was built on the need for a new approach to protect large areas of land that had previously been reserved for and financed by trophy hunting. ![]()
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