We have four projects.
The Poster Project. Posters are eye-catching and informative. They can be displayed almost everywhere. They can be used to communicate information about animals and crimes against animals. Posters can be read by anyone at any time. They help to spread the message to a wider audience but at a cheap price. Help African Animals makes use of posters to communicate messages about animals. We design and distribute posters to people.
We designed and distributed a poster warning rural people not to go to prison for killing wildlife. Our target population was a hunting community in Kapeeka Sub-county, Nakaseke district of Uganda. The poster had beautiful photos of Uganda antelopes, one of the animal species that the community has for long hunted. Our volunteers then took copies of the poster and displayed them in different places in the community for people to read. The community members for the first time got to know that it was an offense to kill antelopes.
Like the Help African Animals founder, Gladys Kamasanyu explains, “A single poster can save countless lives.” The lives a poster can save are both animals and humans. One of these posters can save a family from the tragedy of a family member spending 10 years in prison for killing an animal that has been a traditional meat source for generations.
Community Wildlife Talks. In Uganda, rural people live with wildlife in the same ecosystem. They also bear the burdens of living with wildlife. Communities that live with wildlife are most positioned to help wildlife the more. Rural people should be at the forefront in the fight against wildlife crime. They should be educated on how to coexist with wildlife, the benefits of conservation, consequences of wildlife crime, how to protect the wildlife in their communities against poachers and how to fight illegal wildlife trade. Rural people should be involved in the search for solutions to the challenges facing wildlife. Unless the rural communities learn to coexist with and protect wildlife, all conservation efforts will be in vain.
Help African Animals volunteers go village to village educating communities in Uganda about wildlife, benefits of conservation, wildlife crime, the nature of wildlife crime, the effect of wildlife crime, laws protecting wildlife and the penalties involved in violation of the laws. By raising awareness among rural communities, we are directly contributing to the reduction of wildlife crime, prison congestion, costs of litigation and promoting harmony in the communities. Imprisoning rural people after animals have been killed does not bring back the lives of the animals lost and the absence of a family member while they serve imprisonment terms affects not only them and their families but also their communities. Community Wildlife Talks save the animals’ lives and the lives of the people.
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Animal Law Workshops: Judges, magistrates, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, advocates, and prison officers play a key role in the fight against wildlife and other crimes against animals. They are the heart of a functional criminal justice system. To be effective in their roles they have to be educated.
Help African Animals targets judges, magistrates, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, advocates, and prison officers in their animal law workshops. Educating such stakeholders enables them to manage wildlife and other crimes against animals better. Workshops organized in districts where the different officers work give them an opportunity to share their experiences, successes, and challenges and together, they provide solutions to the challenges. Such workshops lead to improved communication, co-operation, and coordination among stakeholders hence enhancing the fight against wildlife and other crimes against animals.
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A Compendium of Wildlife and Other Animal Laws Project: The majority of the people in Uganda are very ignorant of the laws that protect wildlife and other animals. The laws have remained in books without them being communicated to the people and worst of all, without them being enforced to protect animals. It is until one knows that an act is forbidden they don’t do it. It is only after people have known the forbidden acts that they will report wildlife offenders and animal abusers and hence effectively participate in animal protection.
Help African Animals’ goal is to make a compendium of all laws protecting wildlife and other animals and distribute them to judicial officers, prosecutors, advocates, law enforcement officers, the general public, universities and other institutions of learning to promote awareness of the laws. This will lead to improved enforcement of the laws and curb wildlife and other crimes against animals.
Go to the Compendium of Wildlife and other Animal Laws Project
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