Conserve Global

29/05/2026

Grateful to the management of Parque Nacional de Maputo (Maputo National Park) for convening this important meeting on human-wildlife conflict mitigation in the Mwai region.

The meeting brought together a strong coalition of stakeholders: the Maputo Environmental Protection Area, the Mwai Community Reserve, the Community Association for Conservation of the Futhi Corridor, local leadership from Salamanga, the local police, and community leaders from Tchia, Matchia, Mussongue, Huco, Madjadjane, and Massale.

Where communities and wildlife share the same wildscapes, coexistence requires more than goodwill. It requires structure, dialogue, and a shared commitment to finding solutions that protect both people and nature. For the families farming in the buffer zone and the children walking to school each day, this work is urgent, and it matters.

Africa's most pressing conservation challenges are human ones. The answers lie with the communities who call these places home, and meetings like this one are where those answers begin to take shape.

27/05/2026

This quarter, the Conserve Global team moved into Massale, making a permanent home inside the Mwai Community Concession alongside the communities they work with. Some milestones are quiet. This is one of them.

In Mozambique, thirty community members completed 10 km of the Gebeza boundary fence for the adjacent Maputo National Park, on time and on budget. A major institutional milestone followed in February: the granting of the FDSC operating licence, enabling Conserve's newly established in-country Foundation to begin formal operations in Mwai.

In Namibia's Kunene Highlands, lion activity in the southern Orupupa Conservancy was managed through targeted mitigation, with deterrents deployed to reduce conflict and protect both people and wildlife. While interactions with lions should be avoided, it's wonderful to see them active in the thriving ecosystem of Kunene.

Conserve management also visited universities, vocational colleges, and local schools across the Kunene and Mwai areas to explore partnerships for staff development and bursary opportunities for community members.

A quarter of firsts and quiet milestones. Communities prove what becomes possible when they hold genuine ownership of their future.

Read the full Q1 2026 Progress Report: https://conserveglobal.earth/report/progress-report-2026-quarter-1/

22/05/2026

This World Biodiversity Day, picture two wild places.

In Namibia’s Kunene Highlands, desert-adapted elephants travel great distances between water and can go days without a drink. Black rhino and cheetah move through the dry country, and rosy-faced lovebirds nest in the cliff crevices. Drought is a way of life here, and a changing climate is making it harder.

In Mozambique, the Mwai community’s land lies within one of the richest natural areas on Earth, where rare sand forest shelters elephants, leopards, and more than 2,500 plant species found nowhere else.

Both places are living corridors for wildlife, and both are protected by communities that choose conservation as they shape their futures. In Kunene, people helped build solar-powered water points so that families and wildlife can share the water during the dry season. In Mwai, six villages secured their land, chose conservation, and built a 43-kilometre fence, creating more than 150 local jobs.

These actions matter far beyond their points of origin. That is the heart of this year’s theme for today's International Day for Biological Diversity: “Acting locally for global impact”. A reminder that global goals are reached through local commitment, with local knowledge, and by people who make nature their priority.

Because nature is our future
Thank you to every community walking this road with us.

Share our story and visit our website for more on this Biodiversity Day: https://conserveglobal.earth/

09/03/2026

🐾 Meet Harriet Davies Mostert, an icon of wild dog conservation — and our next keynote speaker!

Dr Harriet Davies Mostert, Director of Impact at Conserve Global, works at the intersection of research, practice, and people to drive stronger conservation outcomes across southern Africa — with a special passion for African wild dogs.

05/02/2026

The heartbeat of conservation is partnership

Our latest Progress Report shows that conservation of Africa’s wildscapes does require sound science and strategic action, but it is particularly effective because of the enduring value of the relationships that sustain it.

Quarter 4 of 2025 (October–December) saw local leadership take the reins, and these crucial relationships deepen through a shared commitment to a future where nature conserves us.

Some highlights from the report:

➡️Peaceful human-wildlife coexistence reached a major milestone with the completion of a 43 km barrier fence in the Mwai Community Concession in Mozambique, and the Mwai Association held its first independently run AGM, a significant step for local governance and long-term success.

➡️ Local stewardship in Kunene, Namibia, was strengthened through the upgrading of water infrastructure and training of water-point committees, ensuring water security for both people and wildlife.

➡️ Analysis of the population surveys on crocodiles and hippos in Faro, Cameroon, provided the first-ever comprehensive baselines for these key species and a foundation for informed management.

➡️ In the Suguta Valley of Kenya, restored infrastructure and moments of peacebuilding in the Suguta Valley have reaffirmed the link between thriving ecosystems and resilient livelihoods.

These milestones show that conservation can drive community prosperity, and the echo heard throughout the wildcapes we work in is that nature is our future.

Read the full report here: https://conserveglobal.earth/report/progress-report-2025-quarter-4/

05/02/2026

"For more than half a century, Kenya’s Suguta Valley was dismissed as empty – too remote, too harsh, too insecure to matter. Then, in late 2024, a routine aerial survey over an alkaline desert lake rewrote that story in a single, astonishing sight: nearly a million flamingos, gathered in a vast pink city on Lake Logipi, successfully breeding in one of the least-studied landscapes in East Africa.

What was once considered a biological blank spot is now emerging as a place of global conservation importance – and a critical refuge at a time when many of the region’s iconic flamingo lakes are faltering."

Thank you Africa Geographic for publishing this beautiful article written by Dr Juliet King, Project Lead for Conserve Global's Kenyan entity, Rift Valley Conservation.

Read the article below to learn more about this remarkable find and other species recorded in the valley for the first time, that confirm that Suguta Valley as a biodiversity landscape of exceptional importance.

Nature is our future

Nearly a million lesser flamingos counted in Kenya’s remote Suguta Valley, revealing Lake Logipi as a vital global conservation refuge

10/12/2025

We did it, and it’s all thanks to you.

💚Because of your generosity during the Big Give Christmas Challenge, we hit our goal and unlocked every pound of matched funding!Together we will now:

✅ Continue to strengthen community-led conservation

✅ Support jobs and local livelihoods

✅ Improve water infrastructure and food security

✅ Help with infrastructure to protect farmland and build safer futures

✅ Ensure wildlife can move safely and freely across shared landscapes.

This is real, lasting impact, and it starts with you.Thank you for believing in the power of community-led change and in a future where nature conserves us.And a special thank you to Big Give and our Champion.

07/12/2025

Only 2 days left to double your difference for Mwai.

Here is the next instalment of our Mwai story – told by those on the ground.

Stay tuned for more, and please remember to donate to the project via Big Give, where your donation will be DOUBLED by our champions - but only until midday Tuesday!!

Donate here: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006YtLDYA1?utm_source=Socialmedia&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=a05WS000006YtLDYA1&utm_content=Mwaivideo

06/12/2025

It's getting down to the wire - only 2 days left for us to reach our target, and we still have 17,000 pounds left to raise in the Big Give !

Please donate if you can by scanning the QR code or clicking on the Bitly link in our profile by Tuesday midday. Help the communities we work with build a world where nature conserves us.