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Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust

Posted by Conservation Travel Curators on October 2, 2015 at 3:33pm in Impact, Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM, and Investment
“Preserving wilderness, wildlife, and cultural heritage across the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem by creating sustainable economic benefits for the Maasai people” The world increasingly relies on many traditional communities like the Maasai to protect the ecological treasures that exist within the land that they own. But the incredible wilderness and wildlife of Africa’s grasslands and the famous culture of the Maasai people both face daunting threats to their long-term survival. The fate of both rests with the Maasai themselves as they work to figure out how to benefit from their incredible natural resources while preserving them.
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READ Global

Posted by Conservation Travel Curators on September 24, 2015 at 2:28pm in Impact and Non-profits
BACKGROUND In 1991, Myths and Mountains and its founder, Dr. Antonia Neubauer, designed and implemented a unique sustainable development model, READ Global (www.readglobal.org), that has changed how many people and organizations today are working with communities. READ’s goal was to use library community centers combined with local businesses and training to help make rural villages viable places to live. This model has impacted the lives of 2.1 million villagers, seeded 117 for-profit enterprises to sustain READ Centers and serves 241 villages throughout Nepal, Bhutan and India. Moreover, the success of the READ model has led many organizations to rethink how they operate overseas and redefine what “sustainability” actually means.
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