East African Forests & Savannas
Why WCS?
1.2 million animals
WCS rediscovered the white-eared kob, tiang, and gazelle migrations in South Sudan in 2007, estimated at 1.2 million animals, that rivals the wildebeest migration.
2004 founding
In 2004, WCS helped establish and continues to support one of Tanzania's first government-sanctioned, community-based wildlife management areas adjacent to Ruaha National Park.
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On Our Strategies
Strengthen Protected Area Management
This includes our efforts to provide training and support for SMART (the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool). SMART captures ranger-based anti-poaching and ecological data that can be easily analyzed to improve the impact of law enforcement.
We are also working with national-level protected area agencies in Gabon, Uganda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Mozambique, and Madagascar, to support implementation across their entire networks of protected areas.
Help Communities Become More Self-Reliant
In Uganda, WCS is engaged with pastoralists around Queen Elizabeth National Park to reduce lion and livestock conflicts. To do this, we're working with the herders to restore traditional rangelands outside the park by removing invasive plant species and improving access to water. As a result, the pastoralists will be able to keep cattle out of the park and further away from lions. We're also testing the efficacy of solar lights to deter lions from human habitation at night.
Through Research, Identify Priority Areas for Conservation
WCS continues to conduct ecological surveys to better define key areas so that they will be conserved in the face of development pressure. In forest surveys in Tanzania, we discovered a new genus of monkey (Kipungi) and guided the conservation of its habitat. Surveys are underway in Uganda to provide information to oil and gas companies and the Ugandan government to ensure that the most ecologically important areas are not developed.
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