5. Community Conservation, Environmental education & Ecotourism

5. Community Conservation, Environmental education & Ecotourism

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Activities

□ School outreach programme: Continued the 2021-2022 programme: 9 schools, 30 classes, and 1800 school children; monthly efforts: 57 men.hours

□ Saturday Nature Club: Postponed until 2022

□ Special event: Organised a Beach Clean Up with the kids of the partner schools and in partnership with the African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization (AMMCO) The goal was to sensitize the population to the importance to take action to keep the beauty of Limbe, to promote eco-tourism in the city and the South-West Region, protect human health and wildlife. The garbage collection service of the city, Hysacam, gently took part in the action and collected all the plastic trash the kids had picked up (Images 32-35).

□ Christmas event: Organised a special day of activities for the children of the staff of

the Limbe Wildlife Centre: Christmas tree decoration, storytelling, handicraft, song, dance and a lot of fun for the kids! (Images 36-37)

□ Design of 4 new billboards in partnership with the African Marine Mammal

Conservation Organization (AMMCO) highlighting the beauty of marine wildlife and their threats (Images 38-41) □ Art4Nature: Continued to produce billboards, posters, and radio podcasts to

promote forest ecosystem preservation.

□ Green project: 52 community members benefited from the Community-based

Green Economy; 15 ex-hunter members sustainably harvesting wild herbaceous plants: 799.5 kg of Aframomum stems and 707 kg of Costus stems; 37 women members harvesting crop by-product: 916 kg of cassava leaves, 2518 kg of papaya

leaves, 2251 kg of potato leaves, 153 kg of invasive Trumpet wood shoots, corresponding to 34 trees hand-cut; 829,015 FCFA (€1,266) paid directly to the local community association this month; 11,815,810 FCFA (€18,039) contributed to alleviate local poverty and increase gender equity in 2021.

Image 32. Five of our partner schools were represented with more than 400 kids from 6 to 15 years old.

Image 34. The trash collection service Hysacam has been invited to partner on this initiative to collect the plastic bags filled up by the kids. Image 33. DownBeach is certainly one of the most polluted beaches in Limbe. Kids took 3 hours to clean the area.

Image 35. The Manager with the head of education made a speech underlining the environmental and socio-economic threats associated with plastic pollution in Africa.

Image 36. A storyteller came to sensitize kids about conservation and illegal pet trade. What the bet to do it in story! Image 37. Familly Picture after a long day of Fun.

Image 38. The 2022 #ProtectWilldife campaign highlights the change of behaviour that will help to preserve the magnificent Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae, [LC]). Image 39. ... the Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea, [VU]).