Achievements

“This is the best model of community conservation I have seen anywhere in the world.”
~ Professor Stuart Pimm, Winner of the Tyler Environmental Prize and Global Biodiversity Expert ~

APW is hard at work making a difference in the lives of people and wildlife in the magnificent Maasai Steppe. Notable achievements as of January 2012 include:

• 100 Living walls protecting over 200 livestock enclosures and more than 25,000 cattle, goats and sheep nightly; protecting livestock, saving lions.

• Maasai Steppe Conservation Education Program reaches more than 1000 rural schoolchildren annually since 2008, the largest program of its kind across the Steppe.

• Twelve, six-year scholarships to secondary school awarded to rural schoolchildren in the Maasai Steppe.

• Introduction of natural resource action planning to the Maasai Steppe in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, helping communities take a major step towards long-term sustainable management of their environment.

• Training of 52 village members and game scouts at a nationally accredited school for natural resource management.

• Establishment of the only rural center in northern Tanzania that acts as a conservation resource for rural communities, conservation organizations and government authorities.