Coral reefs-Sri Lanka
Coral reefs and alternative income generation: diversifying livelihoods options for community climate change resiliency
Projects
CREE has a remarkable set of diverse projects spanning the globe. All of these projects, while varying in project objectives, are specifically focused on poverty alleviation through environmental conservation activities. Wherever CREE works in the world, we seek to change people’s lives for the better through their relations to wildlife. Please learn more and click on a country below.
For ease of viewing, each country and corresponding project has a paragraph summary, followed by information organized around three categories:
- conservation
- socio-economics
- project objectives
In all cases, we strive to make our work and the specific components of it crystal clear to the general public and funders. We hope you see the unique opportunities for change inherent in our livelihoods focused conservation work.
Sea Turtles – 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 [...]
Humpback Whales – 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 [...]
Snail Farming – 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 [...]
Dunga Wetlands Project – Kenya
Dunga Wetland Alternative Livelihoods Project: 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 hippopotamus compete with human settlement and often raid [...]