A PCLG workshop on linking ape conservation and poverty reduction took place in Masindi, Uganda. Around 30 participants from a variety of ape range states in Africa shared their experiences of engaging with communities in high biodiversity areas. Participants visited community enterprises and conservation programmes in the local area; and learned about opportunities associated with REDD+, mainstreaming poverty and conservation and forest governance. The group was keen to continue collaborating as a great apes chapter of the PCLG, with ambitions to establish national level groups in a number of countries. The members identified a wide range of follow up activities at national, regional and international levels from practical work on human wildlife conflict to policy advocacy.
Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK
Inaoyom Imong, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Nigeria
Dominique Bikaba, Strong Roots (SRC), DRC
Felix Ndagijimana, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund/Karisoke Research Center (DFGFI/KRC), Rwanda
Jef Dupain, African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), DRC
Lilly Ajarova, Chimpanzee Sanctuary & Wildlife Conservation Trust (CSWCT), Uganda
Agrippinah Namara, Consultant, Uganda
Giuseppe Daconto, CARE International, Rwanda
Tom Blomley, Acacia Natural Resource Consultants, UK
Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK
Maryanne Grieg-Gran, International Institute for Envionment and Development (IIED), UK
Johannes Refisch, UNEP/GRASP, Kenya
Salome Alweny, PEI Uganda, Uganda
Tom Blomley, Acacia Natural Resource Consultants, UK
Bashir Twesigye, ACODE/Forest Governance Learning Group, Uganda
Eyébé Antoine Justin, IUCN/Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), Cameroon
Charles Erongot, Village Enterprise Fund (VEF), Uganda