AWF's Community Based Counter Wildlife Trafficking project in DRC engaged over 1,300 community members to develop land-use plans for natural resource management and sustainable livelihood development.
Since 2018, the USAID-funded CBCWT project has supported sustainable agriculture and conservation-friendly livelihood activities for local communities in the Bili-Uere landscape.
Bolumbu Basanga Nadine is a young chief in Lomako, DRC, encouraging her community to embrace conservation values and sustainable livelihoods to protect the rainforest.
Having attended COP27, AWF's Country Coordinator in DRC explains how community-based projects to protect the Congo Basin can mitigate global climate impacts and promote development.
The delegation visited AWF's office in the Democratic Republic of Congo to assess INL-funded projects to combat illegal wildlife trafficking in the country.