Empowering Local Champions for Africa’s Great Lakes

[BirdLife International]

Shoebill at Mabamba IBA, Uganda - image taken on the occasion of the project launch ( Credit: David Thomas/BirdLife)

Empowering Local Champions for Africa’s Great Lakes

BirdLife Partners from Kenya (Nature Kenya), Uganda (Nature Uganda), Rwanda (Association pour la Conservation de la Nature au Rwanda) and Burundi (Association Burundaise pour la Protection des Oiseaux) met in Kampala, Uganda last week for the launch of a 3 year project ‘Empowering local communities for the conservation and sustainable development of the birds and biodiversity of the Lake Victoria Basin, the Greatest of Africa’s ‘Great Lakes’’. The project is being funded by the Aage V. Jensen Foundation.

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