LeAP improves wildlife conservation in Africa’s protected and conserved areas by strengthening training at African wildlife colleges and universities. We enhance faculty expertise so that they can embed conservation leadership into undergraduate curricula for park rangers and managers. Graduates gain key professional skills not currently taught – such as team building, problem-solving, conflict management, and community engagement – enabling them to manage protected areas more effectively.
The result is healthier wildlife populations and habitats, thriving communities, and stronger local economies.
By expanding the LeAP Faculty Network across countries throughout Africa, LeAP reaches hundreds of graduates and ensures that all rangers and managers will gain the leadership skills they need to conserve wildlife and wild landscapes in conjunction with local communities long into the future.
LeAP has launched with four co-founding academic institutions in Central and West Africa. These wildlife colleges and universities helped craft the Mission and Vision and guide our programs through monthly meetings and regular input. Over time, the LeAP Network of African wildlife universities will grow.
To establish a network of African wildlife colleges and universities to enhance their faculty’s expertise and transform students into conservation leaders that effectively manage protected areas, conserve wildlife, address high-priority threats, and foster strategic partnerships with stakeholders to better conserve iconic wildlife and parks.
We envision an Africa with abundant wildlife and world-class parks managed by transformative African conservation leaders trained at outstanding African government colleges and universities to address threats to wildlife in ways that benefit Africa and the global community.
More African colleges and universities will be invited to join the network in the future, and new coursework added as LeAP leaps higher to train more African protected and conserved area staff on cutting edge skills and tools, including:
conservation leadership
teamwork
problem solving
conflict management
programs for women
new technologies
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