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šæ MozNorte News Yesterday, the Lipilichi management team welcomed ANAC, BIOFUND, and Helvetas to Main Camp, introducing them to the local Yambone management team and their community conservation projects. The day continued with a visit to Posto in the Nova Madeira community, where our guests met with the local community council, COGECO.Ā This marks the […]
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Protecting wildlife in this vast Niassa landscape is not easy – but itās made a lot easier with support from incredible partners such as the Mozambique Wildlife Alliance and a very generous private donor John Morgan, who sponsored and helped coordinate our largest deployment of wildlife collars to date.Ā Deploying these collars is critical to […]
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As the Yambone initiative and its projects grow, new collaborators and curious nature enthusiasts have ventured out to Chipanje Chetu to meet the communities and develop new programs both within the project area’s villages and wilderness as well as for eco-tourism safaris (e.g. birding). This new influx of visitors, has required that Lipilichi Wilderness expands […]
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), conservation agricultureĀ “is a farming system that promotes minimum soil disturbance (i.e. no tillage), maintenance of a permanent soil cover, and diversification of plant species. It enhances biodiversity and natural biological processes above and below the ground surface, which contribute to increased water and […]
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This week, Yambone’s operations team, headed by Alastair During kitted the anti-poaching unit out with new patrol gear. This new equipment included everything that our rangers will need when patrolling out in Chipanje Chetu’s wilderness. Each ranger was given a mattress, sleeping bag, mosquito net, backpack, reusable water bottle, gum boots (steel reinforced), torches, plates, […]
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As we approach the end of 2022, the Yambone team is currently looking for Umi Wango scholarship sponsors to enable 26 children to attend grade eight at Macalodge Secondary School in 2023 (starting in January). As of 2023, the secondary school will also include grade seven for which we have 25 applicants. The scholarship is […]