Humans and wildlife clash in many different ways every day. It could be as simple as battling an invading gopher in your garden or as extreme as having a lion attack your goats in the middle of the night.

While the former is just a nuisance that may be annoying, the latter can be a matter of life and death for humans and wildlife and ruin a household's income.

Elephants are also significant players in this conflict. They often raid crops and destroy whole livelihoods with their marauding adventures. This behavior often results in injured or killed people and animals.

The leading cause of death for lions is human/wildlife conflict, and with their numbers hovering around 20,000 total individuals, every loss is critical.

Maono Conservation aims to reduce these often deadly encounters as part of its core mission. We strive to find new ways to mitigate this ongoing conflict.

The ever-growing human pressure on critical wildlife habitats is likely to increase, resulting in more frequent deadly encounters. It’s a race against time to provide helpful knowledge to communities located in or nearby wildlife areas.

It might be training Maasai warriors to be lion protectors, creating natural elephant repellents, using solar-powered LED lights around goat pens, and other, as yet, undiscovered methods.

Maono dedicates substantial resources to supporting and educating local communities about this issue.

The global trade in bushmeat is thriving. The result of simple economic survival for local communities, food costs, demand for exotic products, a growing middle class, and unproven traditional medical treatments are all driving the capture, sale, and consumption of a wide variety of species.

Beyond the pressures this illegal business puts on local wildlife, it also presents a clear and present danger to humans in the form of potential zoonotic disease transfers.

The challenge to local communities is fundamental. Food security and affordability have become paramount in many African countries. With the loss of tourism dollars due to the pandemic, many people struggled to purchase beef or chicken, so they turned to bushmeat as a less expensive or free alternative. This practice often requires illegally placing snares or other traps in national parks, killing or maiming a wide variety of animals.

Maono is committed to promoting the humane and sustainable harvest of bushmeat using non-critical species, the raising of community protein sources, a reduction in poaching, and an increased awareness of the safe handling of the bushmeat that is sold.

Bushmeat is a highly complicated issue, but by working with local governments, communities, and NGOs, we identify and create programs highlighting various approaches to lessen the impact of this devastating industry. This endeavor is a core part of Maono's mission.

Our planet is facing enormous challenges. The list is long: climate change, increased human pressure on the environment and wildlife habitats, access to clean water and sustainable food sources, preventing another pandemic, and even mass tourism are stressing the world in ways we've never encountered.

Maono Conservation highlights and promotes the small but effective actions ordinary people can take to slow or even reverse the dire effects of these myriad challenges.

Our programs feature relatable characters in realistic situations to help people see that change on a local level is not only possible but doable and beneficial. The conservation innovations we showcase present messages that reinforce the idea that the natural environment and everything that lives within it can thrive when people take small individual actions for the better.

By reaching schools, park rangers, local villages, community centers, religious leaders, tourism organizations, government wildlife authorities, and law enforcement personnel, Maono Conservation encourages sustainable co-existence in new and exciting ways.

Our programs inform, educate, empower, and inspire everyone to make a better future for wildlife and people.