Project tracker: The focus is on community-led conservation

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Our quarterly analysis of new projects in African conservation features four initiatives that empower local communities. Two of the projects aim at equitable sharing of nature-based carbon credit funding with communities, one on direct payouts for forest conservation and the fourth on conservation tech for communities.

• In September, Liberia launched a two-year pilot project to pay forest communities directly for protecting their rainforests of about 50,000 hectares. Rwanda followed with an environmental DNA project for local communities.

• Ghana then signed a nature-based carbon credit deal with Singapore to channel the finance to agribusiness and local livelihoods while Zambia launched a similar project involving more than 240,000 people in restoring 185,000 hectares of Miombo woodland.

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