An innovative program helps wildlife conservationists keep the lights on in the African bushElephants and lions in Kenya. Wolves in Ethiopia. Cheetahs in Botswana. Wild dogs in Zimbabwe. These are just a few of the many animals throughout Africa whose habitats are being eradicated by human development, climate change and pollution.
The conservationists out in the field working to help save these animals need electricity, preferably from a renewable energy source.
The Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) has been giving many of them this source -- solar power.
According to their website, WCN "fosters the entrepreneurial spirit in the field of conservation. We partner with independent, community-based conservationists around the world and provide them with the capital and tools they need to develop solutions for human-wildlife coexistence."
Since 2006, the WCN Solar Project has been providing solar-generated electricity to conservation efforts in Africa, Asia and South America.
One of WCN's solar power recipients is Dr. Laurence Frank of Living with Lions in Kenya, who said, "It works – the project is lit up, the satellite-internet system is working, and I don’t hear a generator! I am thrilled!"
For the lions that Dr. Frank is trying to save, all that solar power will hopefully lead to a brighter future.
GET INVOLVED
- Support the WCN Solar Project in their effort to provide solar electricity to conservationists in the field
- Meet famed conservationist and chimpanzee expert Dr. Jane Goodall, who is the keynote speaker at WCN's Expo and Garden Party in San Francisco on October 3.
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