Slide background Beehive fence in Nsefu Sector, Zambia. Photo: Nsefu Wildlife Conservation Foundation (NWCF) Beehive fence in Nsefu Sector, Zambia. Photo: Nsefu Wildlife Conservation Foundation (NWCF)

Zambia Beehive Fences

NWCF implements anti-poaching initiatives through three strategies: 1) Working with rangers for enforcement and deterrence; 2) Local conservation education targeted at the youth and; 3) Economic alternatives such as bee-keeping.

They hope that through their project supported by Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) and Bee Sweet, residents in Nsefu Sector can effectively mitigate human-wildlife conflict to ensure a better future for themselves and wildlife around them.Their community programmes aim to increase ecological stewardship thus preserving and protecting elephants and other species in the wildlife-rich Nsefu Sector.

NWCF plans to include a reforestation programme in their next phase to rehabilitate endemic flowering trees that have been damaged or destroyed by local poachers and through the burning of grass. This will eliminate the need to cut poles for fences and instead replace them with live trees thus boosting their beehive fence construction.

Constructing a beehive fence prototype in Kawaza Village. Photo: NWCF

Completed prototype in Kawaza Village. Photo: NWCF