Kerllen Costa is the manager for a project run by the Kissama Foundation to protect Afromontane forests on Mount Moco, Angola’s highest mountain.Costa says he approaches conservation by looking at how communities already manage their landscapes and resources, and trying to introduce measures that recognize and enhance those systems.
WIN BIG with Horizon Shopping Centre’s Deal of the Month Competition…Revolutionizing the Digital Landscape: Our CEO’s Vision for Unlimited Web Hosting…Kerllen Costa is the manager for a project run by the Kissama Foundation to protect Afromontane forests on Mount Moco, Angola’s highest mountain.
Since 2015, he has worked with a conservation project run by the Kissama Foundation at Mount Moco, in Angola’s Huambo Highlands, whose grasslands and forests are home to an array of unique plants and animals. As Kissama’s project manager, Costa is incorporating what he calls a “more anthropological view of things” in his work.
The Angolan government is not keen on creating new conservation areas because they do not have the resources to do so. My view, having been exposed to so many remote communities in Angola and understanding that they have intricate systems of conservation and ways of managing their own environment, is to push a concept where the government recognizes officially these systems that are already used by traditional authorities and communities.
Kanjonde village, as seen from a mountain trail leading to the summit of Mount Moco. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay. Things have a natural way of recovering, but of course you can help that recovery by implementing certain methodologies and ideas. In the end, it’s the balance between understanding that people are part of nature and you can’t disconnect them.We did a lot of tests for alternatives for firewood. We introduced some ecological stoves that use random organic matter as fuel. That didn’t work.
I think it was only when they started seeing constant economic benefits, that certain agricultural practices were benefiting them more and other alternative livelihoods were bringing about some economic gain, that they were able to say, “OK, the project actually is helping us; it does make sense to preserve the environment.”
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