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Tourism as a tool for Conservation and Community Development

A Safari company slide show

CC Africa are a safari company that claim to help local people in Tanzania and other parts of Africa by bringing tourists to see their wildlife.

They run a system of education and support for locals paid for by the tourists.


World Parks Congress“Tourism and Protected Areas”

Presentation by Les Carlisle and Faustine Kobero


•$98,000 granted

•Conservation Lessons involving 170 students

•Beekeeping programme

•Anti-poaching staff

•Vegetable garden

•Built 2-roomed clinic: attendance between 50 – 100 people

•One doctor and one nurse supported financially by CC Africa

•Refurbished classrooms

•Supply of desks, cupboards and teaching materials

•Footbridge built over the N’dang Iting River.

•Land lease agreement

Kleins Camp - Serengeti border


Children on conservation lessons


The Migration moving south through the Kleins Camp community concession – outside the National Park


Elephant climbing the hill from the Serengeti National Park towards Kleins Camp Community Concession


Tourism needs to become a support for Conservation, not a stick that is

constantly beating it.


CC AfricaPioneering Sustainable Eco-tourism

Care of the land Care of the wildlife Care of the people

Winners of numerous prestigious Eco-tourism Awards


CC Africa’s CC Africa’s Six-Point Six-Point Conservation Conservation StrategyStrategy

1. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT & SENSITIVITY

We strive to reduce our negative impacts and audit these regularly

2. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

We record the benefits to measure our performance

3. ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION AND AWARENESS

We provide accurate information through our publications

4. PERSONAL COMMITMENT

We educate all our staff to be environmentally aware

5. SUPPORT FOR CONSERVATION ORGANISATIONS

We make a considerable contribution to the conservation movements

6. . BIODIVERSITY PROTECTIONBIODIVERSITY PROTECTION

TTo explore ways of using profits generated in our savanna-based safari o explore ways of using profits generated in our savanna-based safari operations to help secure threatened ecosystems elsewhereoperations to help secure threatened ecosystems elsewhere


Care of the Land•Financially influencing the conservation of 340 000 hectares of African wildlife land directly

•Successfully converted 30 000ha of agricultural land to wildlife areas

•Operate on communal land, private land and National Parks with responsible practices.

•Over $ 2.7 million US paid annually to the conservation agencies in park fees and leases in the countries in which we operate


Care of the Wildlife

Phinda Resource Reserve

Cheetah; Over 50 Cheetah sold from a reintroduction of only 15

Elephant; Reintroduced 54 by 1994 sold 38 in 2003, population currently 60

Lion; Reintroduced 12, sold 50 and current population 20

Buffalo; Negotiated a protocol for buffalo on private land and supplied the TB quarantine facilities. 650 buffalo now on private land.

Leopard research; 11 leopards collared in 5 months. 414 kill observations in first 9 months


•1300 local staff members across Africa

•13 000 dependants

•1.7 million $US in wages

per year across Africa

Care of the People


•11 Million Rand worth of development in 11 years.

•1 Million Rand per year

•1 200 pre primary school learners taught every year

•3 500 learners in classrooms financed by Phinda

•24 hr clinic with 12 000 people on their patient register

Care of the people in practicePhinda Community Projects

Africa Foundation Projects


Tourism has to become a support for Conservation, not a stick that is

constantly beating it.


Protected areas asProtected areas as they exist they exist

Transfrontier Transfrontier Conservation areas Conservation areas under development.under development.

Some National Some National Parks and Wildlife Parks and Wildlife Reserves of a Reserves of a portion of Africaportion of Africa

The majority of Large National Parks and Protected Areas are in Savannah


Savannah areas of Africa Under Wildlife A dream of Trans - Frontier Parks

•Africa- the greatest wildlife Africa- the greatest wildlife adventure destination on adventure destination on earth earth

•Extending the “green Extending the “green frontier” through sustainable frontier” through sustainable wildlife development. wildlife development. “Recreate the migrations”“Recreate the migrations”

•Unprecedented tourism and Unprecedented tourism and employment opportunities.employment opportunities.

•The next frontier is to The next frontier is to leverage the profits from the leverage the profits from the economically attractive economically attractive savannah to support other savannah to support other less-viable threatened areasless-viable threatened areas


TANZANIAa case study


Conservation and ecotourism can onlysucceed if they have the support of the people most closely involved –

the communities in and around the conservation areas.


•Salaries into local economy $ 1,1million US pa

•Park fees $ 460 thousand US pa.

•Over 300 people employed in Tanzania alone

•Only 70 guest rooms, in 7 lodges, Total 140 beds.

•More than 3 staff per guest

•Increasing community benefit and reducing impact.

TANZANIA

CC Africa Successes


The Africa Foundation partners with CC Africa, communities and other stakeholders to create a model of

sustainable development for the future.


Edu-Tainer in Arusha, Tanzania


Rural Maasai women and children


Hippo water rollers make transporting water easier


Tourism is The support for

Conservation in our case.

Creating it supporting it, not beating it.

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