PROJECTS WE SUPPORT

MOUNT KENYA TRUST

Mount Kenya Trust (MKT) is a Kenyan not-for profit working to protect and conserve the forest, water, people and wildlife around Africa’s second highest mountain. Mount Kenya’s afromontane forests, vast bamboo stands and moorlands host incredible biodiversity including numerous species of IUCN concern such as African elephant and critically endangered mountain bongo, along with 81 endemic plant species.

CARBON TANZANIA

As much as 35% of Tanzania is still covered in native forest (which is high for East Africa) but it is under huge threat from deforestation. Carbon Tanzania works with indigenous communities to help preserve their forests, protecting the rich biodiversity within them whilst the trees remove CO2 from the atmosphere. These protected forests generate certified carbon offsets that are then sold to earn income for the local community. Carbon Tanzania protect biodiversity and combat climate change all whilst helping some of Africa’s poorest communities.

THE
KILIMANJARO PROJECT

Kilimanjaro’s glaciers are disappearing rapidly. This is due to warmer, drier conditions resulting in the glaciers literally drying out or ‘sublimating’ (solid ice evaporating straight to gas). Much of this problem is caused by global climate change, but this is being made far worse by mass deforestation in the Kilimanjaro region for firewood, charcoal making, and agriculture. This deforestation is resulting in less moisture being available for Kilimanjaro’s glaciers as well as making less water available for local people. The Kilimanjaro Project are helping counter these effects by planting millions of trees that will help retain water in the local environment.

MAASAI STOVES &
SOLAR

MSS designs and installs clean-burning and efficient wood-burning and solar panels in the homes of Maasai people in East Africa. The stoves are 60% more efficient than traditional stoves. This prevents the deadly issue of smoke inhalation, greatly reduces the time women spend wood gathering, all whilst preserving local forests and reducing carbon emissions by 3.5 tonnes a year per stove. The Maasai Women’s Installation Team install the stoves and solar systems stimulating the local economy whilst helping improve their status in the community.

RHINO ARK

Rhino Ark was established in 1988 as a charitable trust to help save Kenya’s Black Rhino population in the Aberdare ecosystem. The rhino were under severe threat from rampant poaching for their highly valued horn.

Over the years, Rhino Ark’s work has evolved and expanded to include support for various community based conservation initiatives such as the Bongo Surveillance Programme designed to offer long-term solutions to the conservation of mountain forest ecosystems.

FIELD PARTNERS

UGANDA WILDLIFE AUTHORITY

Uganda, the “Pearl of Africa”, has ten national parks displaying the best of East Africa. Their Rift Valley landscapes and tropical forests make dramatic backdrops to an extensive variety of flora and fauna.

Managed by Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), the parks offer ‘traditional’ savanna safaris along with boat tours, forest hikes, mountain climbing and wildlife research activities. Uganda is unrivalled on the continent as a bird watching destination with over 1,000 species of birds – several of which are found nowhere else on the planet. It is also home to 13 types of primates including over half of the world’s endangered  mountain gorillas ; and our closest relative – the chimpanzee.

ECUADOR INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY & HYDROLOGY

25zero has been working with Professor Bolivar Caceres who heads the glacier monitoring program at the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology for the Government of Ecuador. This has included filming glacier retreat and discussing the science behind the rapid decline of Ecuador’s glaciers.

Tackling climate change involves every single one of us – and WWF is at the heart of the global movement for a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. We remain calm and positive but also realistic about the huge global effort required to meet the challenge.

25zero SUPPORTERS

25zero work could not happen without the support of our partner organisations. The key partners are listed below. If you would like to discuss about, get in touch below.

Kathmandu is one of the world’s leading outdoor clothing retailers and the largest certified B Corporation in Australia. Kathmandu is committed to sustainability both in terms of its business and the initiatives it supports. Kathmandu is a major sponsor of 25zero, based on 25zero’s focus on raising both awareness of and solutions to climate change.

World Bank – 25zero took senior executives from the World Bank Climate Group and its sister organisations the IFC and MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency) to Mount Kenya to see the impacts of climate change on its glaciers and make a series of short films on local solutions to climate change.  Tim has also presented at a series of World Bank events on both climate change and sustainable development.

Bettison James 25zero was awarded the prestigious Bettison James Foundation award for documentary film making for 2016 based on its work raising awareness of climate change through images and stories about the plight of the world’s rapidly melting equatorial glaciers.