🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean farmers run village seed banks stocked with sorghum, pearl millet, Bambara groundnut and cowpea landraces that CTDT helped them recover, some of which now sit in the Svalbard vault.

Zimbabwe's Red Cross handed drought-tolerant seed and livestock vaccines to farmers in Binga before the 2023 El Nino drought took hold, triggered by a forecast, not a failed harvest.

Since 1989, Zimbabwe's rural district councils have leased safari and hunting rights on communal land and funneled the proceeds straight back to the villages living alongside elephants and lions.

Anti-poaching rangers, a rehabilitation centre and a bush camp for local kids are keeping Zimbabwe's endangered painted dogs alive.

With no public government PM2.5 data in Zimbabwe, a community trust founded in 2013 has been quietly planting low-cost sensors from Harare to Beitbridge and is now funded to build the country's first real-time network.