African women empower conservation with traditional knowledge and modern science, driving solutions to climate change.
African women are leading conservation efforts, combining community wisdom with scientific approaches to tackle climate challenges.
Often operating in the shadows of the mainstream environmental narrative, these women are the unsung heroines of our time, weaving a delicate balance between traditional knowledge, community spirit and modern conservation practices to safeguard our planet’s future. This is problematic on many levels, not least because it’s clear to me that community-based conservation projects often succeed because they are grounded in local contexts and driven by the people who are most affected by environmental degradation – women and girls.Upon recognising the links between poor community health and gorilla population declines in Uganda’s Bwindi Forest, Kalema-Zikusoka set up Conservation Through Public Health.
She has created 444 Village Health and Conservation Team community volunteer networks; increased the number of women on modern family planning from 20% to 60%; and trained more than 200 rural youth, 40% women, in basic computer applications at remote solar-powered centres.Kalema-Zikusoka said: “You’re missing half the story and half the impact if you don’t involve women in conservation.”
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