Contributing to nature-based causes and initiatives is a crucial part of our sustainable tourism mission.
CONSERVATION
Ten percent (10%) of every Naturecrazi tour booking is donated to the Southern African Conservation Trust (SACT) to purchase satellite GPS collars for their Collar A Lion project and to produce educational comic books. The Collar A Lion project fits the collars on dispersing lions, particularly on males aged between 2 and 3 years. These collared lions provide invaluable data on their movements, especially when they travel long distances in search of new territories. Such information is crucial for understanding routes for corridors between protected areas and ensuring the genetic diversity of lion populations. The collars also help in monitoring lions that might cause conflicts with nearby communities.
Collaboration with local communities is at the heart of the Collar A Lion project. The Trans Kalahari Predator Project team, WILDCRU – Wildlife Conservation And Research Unit – Oxford and SACT have established a system wherein they closely monitor lion prides situated on park boundaries, which are often in proximity to human settlements.
The Collar A Lion project also focuses on education and awareness. The project’s original educational lion comic, Vusa the Lion Guardian, was first published in 2012 and updated in 2014 to include other predator species. A completely revised edition is currently in production to focus on protecting livestock from lions and other wild predators. This comic book is aimed for distribution to rural schools in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe during Q4, 2014.
Illustrated by Naturecrazi’s CMO, Desmond Langkilde, the Vusa lion guardian comic series play a crucial role in spreading valuable information to rural schools located near protected areas. It educates families on the importance of coexisting with wild lions, thereby fostering understanding and reducing potential conflicts.
LION DOCUMENTARY
Naturecrazi is an official supporter of A Place For Us – a 6-part documentary film about the survival of lions in Africa. This documentary is being filmed between July to September 2024 in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
A percentage of all the money raised will go to the SACT to support their lion collaring and educational programmes.
COP16
Naturecrazi has signed up to Business for Nature’s Call to Action urging governments to adopt ambitious policies to reverse nature loss in this decade.
With COP16 (United Nations Biodiversity Conference ) taking place in Cali, Colombia from October 21 to November 01, 2024, little time remains to move the world from ambition to implementation. Join us and over 1,400 other companies to pick up the pace #ForNature. Because #NatureIsEveryonesBusiness.
Nature is our greatest ally in the fight against catastrophic climate breakdown. We will not be able to effectively tackle climate change without protecting, restoring and sustainably using nature. Research shows that nature-based solutions, and in particular forest-based actions for mitigating climate change, can provide an important part of the mitigation needed to limit global warming to well below 2°C and therefore play a role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, but should be seen as being complementary to ambitious mitigation targets. And the more carbon dioxide we emit, the less efficient nature becomes at removing it from the atmosphere. The nature and climate crises must therefore be addressed together, urgently.
