This is one of the areas I will be visiting in 2015 on my big Africa trip.  This newsletter and video describe some of the conservation efforts to save wild Cape Parrots in the area.

Children learn about conservation

Please read this latest National Geographic NewsWatch blog:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/05/involving-children-in-conservation-is-easy/

The Cape Parrot Project and our community-based conservation project, the iziKhwenene Project, are multi-generational projects that aim to stimulate positive change for Cape parrots, other threatened forest endemics (e.g. the Hogsback frog), local communities, and the degraded Afromontane forest patches they all depend upon for food, shelter and environmental services. We are working more and more with local children and through our “micr0-nurseries” and “Forest Custodians Program” hope to establish them as the future stewards and custodians of the communally-owned indigenous forests near their homes.  Please watch this amazing 14-minute video on the iziKhwenene Project to learn more about our work.