Climatelinks Photo Gallery

A group of women community scouts from Conservation Lower Zambezi met with the United States Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, in Lusaka National Park during the Vice President’s visit to Zambia in May 2023. Over the last 5 years, the USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance program has worked with government and conservation NGOs like Conservation Lower Zambezi to recruit and train women for community scout positions, a traditionally male-dominated sector. Scouts patrol Zambia's National Parks and adjacent Game Management Areas, contributing to biodiversity conservation to protect Zambia’s natural resources for generations to come.

Habitat conversion from forest to farmland is the principal driver of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. At the same time, each year a forest remains standing, it absorbs carbon dioxide, mitigating climate change. These standing forests provide habitat to threatened species and improve hydrological functions. The USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance program is working with the Frankfurt Zoological Society in the North Luangwa Landscape of Zambia to document the land rights of farmers like the community of Tindiza in Chikwa Chiefdom living adjacent to national parks within community-managed landscapes. These household land rights protect men and women and ensure that their properties fit within a larger land use plan for the area designed to cater to humans and wildlife.

Habitat conversion from forest to farmland is the principal driver of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. At the same time, each year a forest remains standing, it absorbs carbon dioxide, mitigating climate change. These standing forests provide habitat to threatened species and improve hydrological functions. The USAID Integrated Land and Resource Governance program is working with the Frankfurt Zoological Society in the North Luangwa Landscape of Zambia to document the land rights of farmers like the community of Tindiza in Chikwa Chiefdom living adjacent to national parks within community-managed landscapes. These household land rights protect men and women and ensure that their properties fit within a larger land use plan for the area designed to cater to humans and wildlife.

This image shows a warden for Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia who is also a mentor to Zambia’s first all-women community scout patrol unit. COP26 placed a renewed focus on local communities as central to the success of nature-based solutions (NBS) to mitigating climate change. Through the Integrated Land and Resource Governance Program, USAID is ensuring that NBS empowers women and youth, in part by promoting equal opportunities to participate in decision-making and benefit from employment opportunities. By working with Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), Forestry Department, and conservation NGOs to normalize women’s full participation in resource protection and combat harmful gender norms, USAID is ensuring that solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss are inclusive. The program is creating opportunities for women to take on leadership roles, enter formal employment, and be a voice for conservation efforts within their communities. It is building women’s leadership and empowerment skills across a broad coalition of government, NGO, and community partners.

This was a very interesting flash flood that lasted about three days in Kafue district (Zambia)

This picture depicts the start of agroforestry efforts in the village co-op in Mwambezi, Zambia (near Mbala). As part of the Feed the Future Initiative, the co-op ordered 100 lemon tree seedlings and a batch of 100 moringa tree seedlings. After growing to a sufficient size, the seedlings were planted around the village of Mwambezi.

USAID in Zambia Saving Mothers, Giving Life, Maternal Waiting Home, Nkhanga Rural Health Centre.

Demarcation 

Luangwa Zebra