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COMMUNITY CONSERVATION
We support conservation projects of rural communities
Flora
Guassa covers around 100 km² of diverse high altitude
Afroalpine habitat supporting rare and endemic
plant species including Guassa grass, giant lobelia,
and other moorland vegetation. People manage this area since more than 400 years sustainably under a unique community resource management system called Qero, one of the oldest in sub-Saharan Africa.
Wildlife
Guassa is home to one of only six small populations
of the most endangered canid in the world, the Ethiopian
wolf. Gelada monkeys, another endemic specie, can be spotted easily and plenty of other rare bird, mammal and plant species are found in this reserve.
People
GrowMyFuture wants to step in and to assist these extremely poor people to continue with their efforts to diversify income opportunities in order to keep pressure off from the fragile reserve. We plan to endorse bee-keeping and spice farming like thyme in the buffer zones around the reserve .
