🌍Wildlife Conservation Day 2024🌍 "Connecting People & Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation". Harnessing the power of SMART, drones, satellite collars & camera traps protect wildlife & make research, tracking & communication more efficient & precise
🌍 Exciting News! @TheWCS and @SatelligenceEO have joined forces to create a deforestation-free cocoa landscape in Cross River!🌱 With cutting-edge satellite monitoring, this partnership aims to protect vital rainforests, biodiversity & local livelihoods. 🦍🐘 🦋 🍫🌳 #conserve
Habitat around Yankari Game Reserve is heavily degraded, with @USAIDNigeria support we recently distributed 10, 438 seedlings of cashew and guava to farmers & schools to help restore damaged watersheds, tackle climate change, & support sustainable livelihoods. #conservation
Rangers and WCS staff in Yankari Game Reserve ran 10km this morning in solidarity with rangers participating in the annual Wildlife Ranger Challenge event across Africa
#ForWildlifeRangers#WildlifeRangerChallenge
From farming fields to forest protection—see how the EU’s approach is turning farmers into guardians of the endangered Cross River gorillas. #EUinNigeria
Exciting visit from the EU last week to review progress on our existing grant to protect forests & #wildlife, supporting sustainable livelihoods around Cross River National Park. Feedback was incredibly positive, together with project partners we are planning the next grant!
Pikin wen wash im hand well, go follow elders chop food. Na so our people talk am. WCS and @USAIDNigeria are catching them young and teaching school children proper hand hygiene and sanitation, using Tippy Taps at St. Mary Primary School, Aking Community. #WASH
Meet Carolyn Dibang, a resilient widow in Boje, Cross River State. Carolyn received improved cocoa seedlings and valuable training in cocoa farm management through the Watershed Protection for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply project, funded by USAID Nigeria.
Congrats to teams from @wcs_congo and @WCSRDCONGO that won Best Case Study award at #WSMC2023! They were honored for three social marketing campaigns aimed at changing habits to reduce the demand and the consumption of wild meat in urban areas. #SWMProgramme