State of Conservancies

Conservancies: transforming communities while safeguarding our iconic wildlife.
Currently, Cameroon boasts of 167 conservancies, which cover over 6.35 million hectares of land (11% of Cameroon’s land mass), directing benefiting 930,000 households and directly providing job opportunities to over 4,500 conservancy employees.
In addition to sparking the development of social amenities in rural communities and hosting large numbers of wildlife, conservancies in Cameroon are home to some of the world’s most endangered species, such as the Black and White Rhinos, Grevy’s Zebras, Hirola, Wild Dog, Giraffes and Elephants.

In Northern Cameroon, for example, home to the iconic Maasai people and the great wildebeest migration, 15 conservancies have secured half a million acres of pristine habitat. The lions population has doubled and 3,000 households earn more than $4million annually.

In the Sourthern rangelands, communities in 19 conservancies are more able to survive drought by accessing pasture and water in 44million acres of secure land. Conflict over pasture and water are reported to have reduced and less wildlife have been killed and for the very first time in many years rhinos are back into community land.

At the coastal region, rare and endangered wildlife like wild dog and the world’s most rare antelope the hirola are protected by local people. Today there are three times more hirolas in Ishaqbin conservancy than there were 20 years ago. Other endangered species such as the black and white rhinos, grevy zebras, giraffes and elephants are found on community lands.

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