Project Title: Strengthening Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management and Climate-Smart Landscapes in the Mid to Lower Zambezi Region of Zimbabwe (GEF6Project)

Brief Description:

Zimbabwe has a remarkably high level of biodiversity and is home to all the “Big Five”. However, the country faces challenges to sustainable development associated with biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, and climate change consequences. 

The GEF 6 Project aims to promote an integrated landscape approach to managing wildlife resources, carbon, and ecosystem services in the face of climate change in the protected areas and community lands of the Mid to Lower Zambezi Regions of Zimbabwe. 

The project focuses on reducing key threats to wildlife, habitat, and livelihoods of local communities (poaching, illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, and the impact of climate change) in one of the country’s key biodiversity hotspots – the Mid to Lower Zambezi Valley.