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Zambia

Africa · Eastern Africa

4 projects · 4 organizations

Latest from Zambia

📰 Update · May 14

Wildlife Protection Needs More Than Law Enforcement – A New Approach Has Come

🎥 Video · Mar 10

It's Wild! Nutty Butter

🎥 Video · Mar 10

It's Wild! Honey Butter

🎥 Video · Nov 4

Sustaining Nature, Sustaining Lives: COMACO's Conservation Model

🎥 Video · Aug 19

Developing of By Laws in Mnukwa Chiefdom

🎥 Video · Jul 10

Chili Blasting: How Transformed Poachers Are Protecting Farmers' Fields and Wildlife

🎥 Video · Jun 3

Fighting the Drought: Empowering Farmers with Solutions

🎥 Video · Dec 9

Nature's Second Chance

Environment Africa

The Town Built on Six Million Tonnes of Lead Waste

Waste & Recycling

The mine at Kabwe closed in 1994 and was never cleaned up, so children play on tailings and more than nine in ten of them have lead in their blood.

6.4MtonnesLead-bearing waste left at the site
95percentChildren near the former mine with elevated blood lead
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COMACO

COMACO – Community Markets for Conservation

Food & Farming

Zambian social enterprise turning former poachers and subsistence farmers into sustainable growers through its It's Wild! food brand.

472.8kfarmersFarmers reached across COMACO cooperatives
2,000poachersFormer poachers who have surrendered weapons for farming
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Emerging Cooking Solutions

SupaMoto: Trading Charcoal for Clean Pellet Stoves in Zambia

Clean Energy

Zambian households rent internet-connected stoves and buy waste-wood pellets instead of charcoal, cutting cooking costs and pressure on the country's shrinking woodlands.

14.8kcookstovesNew fuel-efficient cookstoves financed
74kpeoplePeople expected to benefit from cost and time savings
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Conservation South Luangwa

Zambian Scouts Guarding the South Luangwa Valley

Wildlife

A Zambian-led NGO fields community scouts, a K9 anti-poaching unit and vets to protect 1.4 million hectares of the Luangwa Valley.

1.4MhectaresWilderness protected across the South Luangwa ecosystem
112scoutsCommunity Scouts employed
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