Conservation fails when communities can’t earn a living from the land. In Tanzania, Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) were designed to protect ecosystems and benefit local people, but most don’t deliver — they lack good governance and don’t generate enough income to benefit communities. Bad news for both the people and wildlife living there.
Honeyguide makes WMAs work. They help people put in place a structure for good communal planning and decision-making, then work with them to figure out how to make a good living, usually through tourism or carbon projects, in a way that protects ecosystems and wildlife.
Honeyguide now works across nearly 2M hectares in Tanzania. They’ve created the playbook for communities to benefit from wildlife tourism and are working to develop carbon projects and other livelihood solutions (a huge need in the conservation sector overall). If they crack conservation-aligned livelihoods in WMAs, it could shift the economics of conservation and create a future where people and nature thrive together.
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