45K Indigenous Forest Trees Planted & 13 Wildlife Specicies in KWS
The Main purpose of the Trident Foundation Limited’s Wildlife and Forestry conservation program, is to maintain a careful balance of optimizing mining operations & ensuring biodiversity conservation of wild fauna & flora within Kalumbila Wildlife Sanctuary & the adjacent area.
Key Objectives
- Maintain functional ecological integrity and biodiversity of the mining area & surrounding
- Promote wildlife, forestry & fisheries based livelihoods
- Extend services of Kalumbila wildlife sanctuary as a breeding site for stocking to other conservation areas
Highlights
- Facilitated publishing and launch of the book on Snakes and First Aid in Snakebite in Zambia and a total of 1,000 people reached on Snake safety and awareness activities for schools, FQM employees, health staff, school teachers, community members and school children.
- Attended the first GEF 7 technical group meeting to give project highlights and progress. Met the Minister of Green Economy and Environment to brief him on our activities that would be highlighted at national level during the COP 27 for climate change in Egypt.
- Trident Foundation adopted the ecosystem GEF 7 project Kamikolo Community Forest under Co-financing arrangement with Nature Conservancy.
- Commenced restocking of Wildlife from Trident Wildlife Sanctuary into West Lunga National Park and Ntambu Community Game Ranch.
- Two bush babies that were rescued in November 2021 and one python that was rescued from illegal wildlife trade were released into KWS. Made 3 arrests of illegal possession of game meat and recovered 24 pieces of game meat.