15+ Spotlighted Conservation Projects...

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Himalayan Brown Bear Conflicts in Human Settlements

-Conservation with Compassion in the Himalayas-

Ladakh to Manali-Kulu Region, India 2019

Climate change and shrinking habitats are pushing Himalayan brown bears into Zanskar’s villages, rewriting the rules of human-wildlife conflict and coexistence. Since roughly 2015, bears have been venturing into new territories — into the whole of the Stod Valley, and later to Zunkhur in central Zanskar. Although considered shy and known to avoid human contact, there are more and more incidents of bears entering villages and sometimes getting trapped inside a school or a monastery kitchen.. Conservation awareness and education efforts are instilling the idea of coexistence in school children and elders. A bear guardian programme was launched to involve local communities in bear conservation and conflict mitigation; training people to protectively bear-proof their livestock enclosures, homes, and watermills; and learning to record evidence of bear movement.

Greenhouses from Recycled Materials to Replace

Weather Damaged Crops

Conservation with Compassion in the Himalayas

Zansker Region, India 2025

Snow Leopard / Human Conflict Project

Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust

Ladahk, India 2009 and 2019

The Snow Leopard Project was a community assistance grant to a village in Ladahk, India. The nearby Snow Leopard population had long been a problem of predation danger to resident farmers, their livestock, and villagers. A Snow Leopard conservation group endeavored to find alternative solutions than simply killing off the leopard population, by using a blend of education, social-marketing, and communication strategies to try and ease the conflict.

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(Note: Video used w/permission from KC Namgyal, a standout participant in the 2009 Applied EE Course - Amravati, India)

Pollinator Awareness Program for Educators

-Nepal Pollinator Network-

Nepal, 2020

EECG provided funds to the Nepal Pollinator Network to implement their pollinator education program. They produced educational materials and educational programs on pollinators with an emphasis on bumblebees. The material includes: An instructional manual on how to conduct pollinator environmental education in the Nepal context; detailed session plans for EE practitioners or schoolteachers; practical activities to involve participants in understanding the core concepts of bumblebee conservation; and a list of easy conservation practices that interested participants can adopt in their daily lives.

Human/Elephant Conflict

Mitigation Through Use

of Electric Fencing

-National Trust for Nature Education-

Nepal, 2013

Overuse of Plastic in Villages

-Village Education and Economic Development- (2020)

-Women for Women- (2017)

India

Namibian Wild Dog Project

-Namibian Nature Foundation-

Namibia, 2010

African Wild Dogs are a flagship and sentinel species in Namibia, but under immense pressure due to habitat incursion and a less-than-positive public reputation. An important angle to address the problem is outreach in farming communities combined with environmental education in the surrounding area, both at youth and adult level. EECG provided support funding to facilitate the needed conservation initiatives.

Using Bio-gas to Reduce

Tiger/Human Conflicts

-Wildlife Team (formerly Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh)-

Chandai-Sundarbans, Bangladesh, 2014

Biogas reduces human-tiger conflicts in India and Bangladesh by providing rural households with a sustainable alternative to firewood, cow dung and organic waste - thus reducing the need for villagers to enter tiger-inhabited forests. This decrease in forest dependence lowers the risk of surprise encounters, tiger attacks, and retaliatory killings, while also reducing the need to collect fuel near protected areas.

Community Tree Planting Project

-Greenzones of Perkera-

Baringo County, Kenya, 2013

Building Teacher Capacity to Manage Eco-Clubs

-Environmental Governance Institute-

Cameroon, 2013

Reducing Incursion Rate into Gashaka-Gumbi Natl. Park

-Adeniran College of Education-

Nigeria, 2004

Annual Bird Fair in Jaipur

-Tourism and Wildlife Society of India-

India, 2008 and 2016

Accessibility Project: Wheelchairs and Wildlife

Tanzania, Africa

On-going since 2016

The wheelchair initiative in Tanzania is a collaboration between EECG and Peace for Conservation, aimed at supplying 100 wheelchairs to individuals with physical disabilities in the surrounding community near Serengeti National Park. At the same time, the initiative supports educational and wildlife conservation efforts.

A Dazzling Array of Creative and Innovative EE and

Conservation Projects from

Peace for Conservation:

• Conservation Arts Painting Class 2025

• Conservation and Beekeeping 2025

• Tree Planting 2023

• Capacity Building/Training in Schools 2023

• Organizational Support 2022-23

• Dance & Comedy Show for Conservation 2022-23

• Rice Husk Charcoal Production (C3 project) 2022

• School Construction Supplies 2021

• Nursery Plantation at School 2021

• Child to Child for Conservation 2021-22

• Conservation Outreach Programs 2020

• Child to Child for Elephant Protection 2017-20

• Dance for Conservation 2019-20

• Wheelchairs and Wildlife 2016-25

• Youth Sports Campaign Against Poaching 2015

• Community Engagement / Wildlife Mngt 2015

• Behavior Chng in Children re: Wildlife Cons. 2015

• Conservation Knowledge in Primary Schls 2014

• Dance 4 Elephants 2007

Beehive Fences for Reducing Human/Elephant Conflicts

Peace for Conservation

Tanzania, 2020

Research in Kenya has revealed that broadcasts of disturbed bee recordings cause elephants to run. When they do run away, the elephants emit a unique low frequency “bee alarm rumble” vocalization, a sound that warns neighboring elephants to retreat as well. Anecdotes from local people, report witnessing elephants being stung by swarms of bees, around the eyes and in the thinner skin behind the ears. Farmers affected by crop raids have been receiving training to install beehive fences. The main goal is to alleviate human-elephant conflict and promote tolerance of elephants in nearby human settlements and farm boundaries. The fences thus provide crop protection from elephant raids, as well as a source of income from honey sold in local markets.

The Peace for Conservation Organization

Innovative EE in Tanzania Since 2007!

EECG

c/o Ed McCrea, Exec. Director

204 East Locust St.

Coudersport, PA 16915

814-260-9138

emccrea@eecg.org