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Poaching – COMACO – Community Markets for Conservation
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Community Poaching Wildlife
Wildlife Management in the Hands of Small-scale Farmers – The COMACO way

By Dale Lewis, COMACO CEO and Founder I’m going to tell you something that you’ll have a hard time believing.  My work in Zambia began as a conservationist focused on elephants.  Later

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Community Poaching
Elephants and sunflowers: A life-changing transformation takes one man from poacher to landscape steward

Elephants and sunflowers: A life-changing transformation takes one man from poacher to landscape steward. Written  by  Nick  Schonfeld Smoke Phiri looks like an archetypal henchman. His m

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Community Farming Poaching Wildlife
Protecting forests, saving bees and improving livelihoods

Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet and up to eighty percent of the world’s land-based species, such as elephants and rhinos, live in forests. There is also scientific res

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Community Farming Poaching Wildlife Women
Conservation solutions – COMACO has answers

This year, for example, there are over 61% of farmers that are doing “conservation business” with COMACO will be planting over 36 million agroforestry trees to help repair their soils.

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Community Farming Poaching Wildlife
Crops that save elephants and make It’s Wild! the brand of nutrition 

COMACO's conservation initiatives help rural communities manage for their habitat while keeping their farm lands working and strengthening rural economies. Read more...

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Farming Poaching Wildlife
Using radio to inspire poachers to become conservationists

Interestingly, Andrew Maimisa is not a COMACO farmer but an ardent follower and listener of COMACO’s Farm Talk radio program. “I listen to COMACO programs on radio Breeze FM and I have h

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Charcoal Community Poaching Wildlife
A balance in the making: cookstoves, a tree species and wildlife

Illegal trafficking halted… A fuel-efficient cookstove that uses the small branches of a tree species called Gliricidia sepium is helping many thousands of smallholder farming families

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Events Fundraising Poaching Uncategorized Wildlife
Computers-for-Chiefs Initiative

COMACO is seeking computer donations to help Chiefs to better protect the environment

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Community Poaching Wildlife
From Poacher to Protector

Ex-poachers use their skills for good, combating crop-disturbance by elephants in their communities.

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Farming Poaching
A Life in Transition

Ex-poachers discuss their transition to farming and what inspired them to change.

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