Pafuri Camp Wins Equator Prize

Pafuri Camp, a partnership between Safari Adventure Company and the Makuleke Community, located in the Kruger National Park, has been chosen as one of 25 winners of the Equator Prize 2010.
 
The Equator Prize recognises and celebrates outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation of biodiversity.
 
Equator prize-winners are selected by the Equator Initiative’s Technical Advisory Committee on the principal criteria of impact, partnerships, sustainability, innovation and transferability, leadership and community empowerment, as well as gender equality and social inclusion.
 
Pafuri Camp now joins an elite group of Equator Prize winners, constituting an influential grassroots movement of local and indigenous best practice in biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction.
 
As this global network grows in size, it grows in influence, and the Makuleke Community and Pafuri Camp look forward to working and connecting with other Equator Prize winners as well as being part of the Community Summit, a community “dialogue space” that will facilitate peer-to-peer learning, community presentations, and special events and training related to biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction. The Summit will take place in September in New York.

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