Wildlife Conservation Action (WCA) is a Zimbabwean organisation currently working in protected areas and with surrounding communities on the Zimbabwean side of three Transfrontier Conservation Areas: KAZA, Lower Zambezi – Mana Pools and ZIMOZA. These regions provide large tracts of relatively intact wild lands for wide ranging species, and are important landscape for the conservation of large carnivores and other wildlife species most notably buffalos and elephants.
The mission of WCA is to build the capacity of local communities living in these areas to protect and coexist with wildlife, while improving community livelihoods. They achieve this through sound-scientific research, conservation action, capacity building, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, environmental education and sustainable livelihood strategies. Tusk support currently goes towards WCA’s environmental education programme, Guardians of the Wild (GOTW). The programme is aimed at educating children in both rural and urban schools about the importance of environmental protection and biodiversity conservation through lessons, seminars, content creation and field trips to national parks.