GEF Protected Area Project

With concerns being expressed that private and communally-owned protected areas may not be as effectively managed as they should be, this work aims to provide support to landowners, to co-develop a management support solution in KwaZulu-Natal. This project will provide the framework necessary to empower, educate and train these communities and individuals in order for them to derive benefits from these areas, and to provide a structure to support and guide the legal reporting and monitoring requirements necessary to maintain protected area status in perpetuity. This work is being generously funded by the WWF Nedbank Green Trust.