This Project aims to advance youth education towards their effective involvement in biodiversity conservation that benefits both humans and nature through actions that support school tree nurseries role in the restoration of the critical of newly MAB-designated landscape of Mukura-Gishwati, home to Eastern Chimpanzee and many other species endemic to the Rift Albertin. This Project proposes to use the school land ( 4 ha) to establish GS Kibara as a "role-model" school of Ecosystems-Based Adapt
In recent years, Gishwati and Mukura Forest Reserves have faced numerous threats associated to human activities including but not limited to illegal mining, forest clearing for agricultural land, settlements, and animal grazing. Over the last few decades, these threats combined effects have continually degraded and reduced this park size, fauna and flora (MINIRENA, 2010).
The Project will intervene in all the three zones of the Reserve by (1) raising awareness and availing information on the biodiversity richness and importance of the core zone; (2) raising awareness on practices that are efficient to manage the buffer zone, including the management of natural vegetation, agricultural land, and forests to enhance the quality of production (3) tree planting in the peripheral area (manipulation zone) of a biosphere reserve.
Through conservation education and reforestation process, the project will make GS Kibara a "role-model" school of Ecosystems-Based Adaptation by providing students with adequate knowledge and skills to lead environmental actions for sustainability.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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