My name is Zainabu Mlaponi , I have a bachelor degree of Arts with education, I started to work with Lion Landscapes since 2022 , My passion with wildlife grow in Lion Landscapes since it helps to reduce conflicts between carnivores and people through different programs.
I`m really happy to see conservation education is provided to the local community living along the National Parks and Pastoral community is getting help with the conflict with carnivores and to be a part of that team, Joining this course it will help me to diversify my understanding in conservation and my career,
Thank you.
Zainabu Mlaponi
(She/Her)
Human - Wildlife Conflict Coordinator, Lion Landscapes
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Welcome to the WildHub Community, Zainabu!
It's wonderful to have you here. Your work with Lion Landscapes and your dedication to reducing human-carnivore conflicts are truly inspiring.
What have you found most rewarding in working with local communities and carnivore conservation so far?
We look forward to learning from your experiences and insights!
Thank you so much Amanda!
Yeah it gives me passion working with local community and carnivore conservation at once, All of the local communities have their reasons why they have negative attitudes towards wildlife conservation. But we give them reasons to conserve carnivores with it`s landscapes, we remind them the rules of the country where if a person found guilty there is penalty of money or going to jail where this concerning the government. We remind them concerning endangered species where big carnivores are on the list, also we influence them to love wildlife by showing night cinemas and take them to the National parks to near them for tourism, lastly we make sure they get benefits of wildlife through a program called Community Camera Traps (CCT+) where local community get materials they want like for pastoralist community they will order medicine and youth they will order sports materials and we give them Community health fund.
So for now many of community members understand why we all need to participate in conservation instead of using a lot of energy as we did before.
A warm welcome to WildHub, Zainabu Mlaponi! Wonderful to have you join us and thank you for sharing about your background. Which training course are you currently doing?
Perhaps of interest to you could be our Conservation Catalyst programme here, which can be a great experience for networking as well as sharing other people’s learnings.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you Thirza, I`m taking Project Management for Wildlife Conservation(PMWC) from Sept - Oct.