The Communicating the Environment Programmeis a partnership with The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the Southern African Development Community - Environment and Land Management Sector (SADC-ELMS). Resouces available include a sereis of environmental factsheets and articles, and an environment resource centre with bibliographic and contacts data bases for environmental issues.

Conservation International (CI) aims to preserve threatened ecosystems in over 30 countries across four continents. CI initiatives focus on biodiversity hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas, key marine areas, and select major wetlands. These areas are rich in biodiversity but severely threatened by human activities. CI works closely with local people in biodiversity-rich areas to develop alternatives to destructive land-use practices, and to educate communities, businesses, and government leaders about the need to protect their natural resources. CI also builds upon its successes to influence the way governments and corporations make decisions.

This page describes Conservation International’s activities in Africain West Africa it works to increase scientific understanding of biodiversity, strengthen capacity for biodiversity conservation, reduce the bushmeat trade, provide connectivity to fragmented forests, raise public awareness about threats to biodiversity conservation, and create necessary political and financial frameworks for sustainable conservation. In Central Africa Conservation International works with ECOFAC, a forest conservation and utilisation programme, sponsored by the European Union. In Southern Africa it works to conserve biodiversity and promote sustainable management of the Cape Floristic Province, Succulent Karoo, and the Okavango Delta. CI’s activities in Madagascar concentrate on developing better park and forest management, protecting endangered species and working with the private sector to establish biodiversity-sensitive practices.

In 1996, TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa initiated an 18-month review of the African trade in wildlife medicinals, with the aim of identifying species most in need of conservation, management and/or research attention. The review also entailed collecting information about trade patterns, markets, source areas, and impacts of harvest in 17 countries. This page provides an overview of the resulting report, “Searching for a Cure: Conservation of Medicinal Wildlife Resources in East and Southern Africa", by Nina Marshall, published in September 1998. The report identifies 102 medicinal plant species and 29 animal species as priorities for conservation and management action.

Introduces the Endangered Wildlife trust, which aims to conserve the diversity of plant and animal species in southern Africa. The Trust seeks to achieve its mission by conducting a programme of research, awareness and conservation action.

The EIS-SSA (Environment Information Systems Program in Sub-Saharan Africa) program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The program supports African countries as they assess their priority needs in terms of environment and land information systems, and analyze the technical, institutional, legal and economic issues hampering their possibilities of meeting these needs. It assists them in finding adequate, sustainable and long-term solutions to deal with these issues.

Local indigenous Knowledge Systems: a regional effort in Southern Africa to explore the linkages between gender, biodiversity and local knowledge systems. Tools available include: FAO Socio-economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) programme; Noragric Gender, Local Knowledge and Plant Genetic Resources Management; an IIRR manual on recording and using indigenous knowledge; IDRC Gender and Biodiversity Research Guidelines.

A Southern African regional initiative with its Regional Office at the University of Zimbabwe in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension. The mission of IDEAA is to develop and apply replicable models for effective service delivery through information sharing and identifying and strengthening the capacity of change agents working in agricultural institutions. The ultimate aim is to increase household incomes and improve the quality of life of smallholder farmers in Southern Africa.

The Institute is a South African-based, independent, non-profit, NGO. The purpose of the Institute is to contribute towards the wise use of natural resources through the integration of conservation and development initiatives. The web site is an overview of the Institute's services in natural resource management, integrated development processes, agriculture and agribusiness, and coastal research and management.

Established to benefit the southern African region and Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the development of modern skills in conservation and natural resource management. There are three main programme areas: 1) Ecosystems Programme - conserving and managing regional biodiversity, wetlands and their catchment, and collaborative forestry management. 2)The Regional Policy Programme (RPP) strengthens the capacity to understand and incorporate social, institutional and economic concerns in natural resource management.
Current priority issues include policy reforms and reviews, resource based conflicts, land tenure issues, transboundary natural resource management and environmental economics. 3) Support to country offices in Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa.

Campaign to protect the Okavango River Basin from the threat of dams. Includes a report on "Meeting Namibia's Water Needs While Sparing the Okavango".

The Peace Parks Foundation's mission is to facilitate the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) or peace parks in Africa, support of economic development, conserve of biodiversity, and promote regional peace and stability. The web site has a profile of the foundation, news and archived newsletters and reports in the library, and an interactive GIS map of Transfrontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa.

An overview of sustainable development issues in Southern Africa with specific articles referring to sustainable development in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique.

The Southern African Migration Project is a multi-faceted research programme designed to facilitate the formulation and implementation of new initiatives on cross-border population migration in the region. The SAMP project has four main components: applied migration research, policy advice and monitoring, migration training and public education.

SARDC is an independent regional information resource centre involved in the collection, production and dissemination of information about the SADC region. Its main aim is to improve the base of knowledge about economic, political, cultural and social developments, and their implications, by making information accessible to relevant stakeholders. The web site has a description of the resources available and links to various environment databases.

Aims to facilitate the establishment of a number of Information Communications Technology Centres throughout the SADC sub-region and a series of Information Servers on the Internet structured to provide appropriate support material to existing institutions, lecturers, teachers and businesses. Links to various development, culture and communication projects and organisations.

A USA-based non-profit foundation, working principally in Africa. It provides conservation education to local people and organizations in appropriate local languages.

A non-governmental organisation contributing to environment and development solutions in the SADC region. ZERO's mission is to promote the development of new knowledge that enables rural communities of Southern Africa to articulate their land resource needs and solutions through participatory policy advocacy, information sharing and networking. The site contains a link to databases on land reform and regional experts.