Kenya - Yala Wetlands
Yala Wetlands Project
Eco-tourism in Lake Victoria's Yala wetlands: Training tomorrow's environmental leaders from within
The Yala swamp sits in the basin of Kenya's majestic Lake Victoria. Its papyrus wetlands not only support a wealth of biodiversity, but form an economic basis for thousands of Kenyans who make handicrafts from the vital resource. Yet the onslaught of agricultural development threatens to compromise the ecological integrity of Yala by draining crucia...
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Tanzania
Tarangire Lion Project
Creating innovative solutions to human-lion conflict
The Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem, (the Maasai steppe), of Tanzania hosts some of the most spectacular carnivore populations on the planet; including lions, hyenas, and leopards. The African lion, emblematic of this ecosystem, is perhaps the most threatened of any other lion population in Tanzania due to retaliatory killings by herders (Kissui, 2007). Yet the Maasai people who share the landsc...
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Cameroon
Snail farming at Mount Cameroon
Promoting sustainable protein sources in communities around Mount Cameroon National Park
Mount Cameroon, which rises 4090 meters from the sea, is located on the western coast of Cameroon in the Southwest Province and is considered a 'hotspot' of biological diversity. The lower parts of the mountain are covered by dense equatorial rain forest with diverse species of plants ranging from herbs, shrubs and lianas to large timber species, ma...
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Kenya - Dunga Wetlands
Dunga Wetland Alternative Livelihoods Project
Mama Terri, first eco-san owner.
Addressing Human-hippopotamus conflict
The wetlands of Dunga on the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya have fantastic touristic potential. Yet these lands are also rife with conflicts from some of the very animals that make the area so unique. Animals such as the hippo...
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Philippines
Babuyan Islands Humpback Whales Project
The Philippines Islands are comprised of more than 7,100 islands in the western Pacific Ocean. This diverse archipelago hosts a spectacular amount of marine and terrestrial biodiversity that is of great interest to the tourism industry. The popularity of the Philippines as a vacation destination has spurred efforts to develop ecotourism across the archipelago. However, promoting the twinned goals of coastal and marine biodiversity conservation...More
Guyana
Sea Turtle Arts and Crafts
Creating income from local women's traditional embroidery work at Shell Beach, Guyana
As the Atlantic Ocean waves crash on Guyana's Shell Beach, a group of schoolchildren and a sea turtle warden roam the wild beaches. They wait under a starry night sky for the evening's main attraction to emerge. Their eyes widen and all chatter stops as they see the great lumbering form of the most ancient living sea turtle species, the leatherback, emerge. ...
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Knowledge Tree
The 'Knowledge Tree' is an information-sharing project developed by CREE
Its goal is to help conservation and sustainable development leaders from the developing world access critical information needed for their projects or studies. Often, universities found in the developing world do not have libraries adequately stocked with scientific journal articles or books that students and young professionals need for their studies or projects.
CREE has established a fund th...
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Donor's Corner
CREE is pleased to announce and exciting new collaboration on our Philippines project through a grant from the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong (OPCFHK). Through OPCFHK's generosity, CREE will be able to continue monitoring the status and distribution of humpback whales and other cetaceans in the Babuyan Islands, estimate the abundance and s...
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