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Preventing Zoonotic Disease
In both Republic of Congo and in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo INCEF is teaming up with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and Congolese Public Health to prevent a disease called Monkeypox. Read more about this disfiguring and sometimes fatal disease that passes from animals to humans and the success of their efforts.
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Bayanga: Health & Conservation Outreach
Project Goal:
Produce a series of short educational films on three health topics of relevance to the Ba’aka people and the survival of their culture: malaria, parasitic chigoe fleas, and the value of forests as "natural pharmacies." Learn more |
Location:
Central African Republic Status: Completed Partners & Funding: $10 a Month Club |
TCCB: Digital Literacy in Eastern Congo
Project Goal:
Capacity building for students from the communications department of the Tayna Center for Conservation Biology (TCCB) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Learn more |
Location:
Democratic Republic of Congo Status: Completed Partners & Funding: Conservation International Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International UGADEC |
Saving Forest Elephants
Project Goal:
To raise awareness among remote populations sharing their habitat with Forest Elephants on issues and solutions that would decrease the hunting of Forest Elephants. Objective: Decrease hunting of forest elephants in Republic of Congo Production: By 2006 we completed we completed 5 films: Forest Elephants, Price of Ivory, Human Elephant Conflict, Hunting, and Alternatives to Hunting . In 2007 we added another film profiling the arrest and incarceration of an elephant poacher Justice and Conservation. Dissemination: From 2006 to 2011 we reached 174 villages in Likouala, Sangha and Cuvette Ouest in Republic of Congo – and a total of 103,591 individuals. Learn more |
Location:
Central African Republic Republic of Congo Status: Completed Partners & Funding: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ECOFAC (via EU) International Fund for Animal Welfare Wildlife Conservation Society US$163,764.00 US ($1.58 per person reached, $941.17 per village reached) |
Saving Great Apes
Project Goal:
To raise awareness among remote populations sharing their habitat with Great Apes on issues and solutions that would decrease the hunting of Great Apes and prevent the spread of zoonotic diseases like Ebola. Objectives:
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Location:
Republic of Congo Status: Completed Partners & Funding: USFS, ARCUS Foundaton, National Geograpic Explorations, WCS (in kind), Expert advice from Ministry of Health/Public Health and Ministry of Forest Economy. |
Teaching Hunters the Law
Project Goal:
Increase knowledge of hunting laws on the periphery of protected areas. Dissemination: INCEF education teams reached 50 villages and 101,685 people or 70% of the population in those villages. As a result of learning that the population had little awareness of laws governing hunting in protected areas, a second project with IUCN was launched. Learn more |
Location:
Republic of Congo Status: Completed Partners & Funding: Bushmeat Crisis Task Force IUCN/CARPE Small Grants U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
SALONGA: Saving the Forest
Project Goal:
Raise awareness of Salonga-Lukenie-Sankuru landscape and resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Learn more |
Location:
Democratic Republic of Congo Status: Completed Partners & Funding: World Wildlife Fund Pact-Congo |
TL2: Saving a Landscape and Creating a National Park
Project Goal:
Local monitoring and protection of the TL2 forests around the future Lomami National Park. Learn more |
Location:
Democratic Republic of Congo Status: Ongoing Partners & Funding: TL2 |