Take Action through Buying Products
Many wildlife conservation projects are taking a holistic approach to saving species by including local communities. Especially in impoverished areas, these communities depend on hunting animals for food, destroying habitat for land, or doing both in order to bring in additional income for their families. When conservation projects involve and hire individuals from the community, they are better able to deter community-posed threats, encourage protection of the species of concern, and infuse the community with an "alternative livelihood."
Each project is different in the needs they address and how they go about creating products, however there is a typical flow of work as follows. The product is crafted/collected/grown by the local community, if possible through the use of waste related to the projects, such as hunting snares destroyed or trash recovered. The project then pays the community members for the product, and the product is shipped, often overseas, to be sold to a consumerist public. Profit from sale is used to purchase more products from the community and to continue conservation work.
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Buying wildlife conservation products not only helps the species, but also the communities living around it! Not to mention, you get a beautiful decoration or yummy treat for your contribution!
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See the Conservation Projects Blog to find more products to buy and projects to support!