Description de l'offre
The World Wide Fund for Nature Seeks a Business and Industries coordinator The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest independent conservation organizations in the world. We are an international NGO committed to environmental protection active in almost 100 countries We have been working in the Congo Basin in Central Africa for more than 20 years. Our mission is to stop the environmental degradation in the world and build a future where humans live in harmony with nature. WWF has a large and growing conservation programme in Central Africa. We are implementing various projects dealing with protected areas management, forest management; support to various NGOs, Civil Society Organisations and many government ministries (Agriculture, Education, planning etc.) to promote sustainable development. Large scale direct investment in the Congo Basin is on the increase with an explosion of new development projects, notably mining, oil, infrastructure and agro-industry (palm oil, Cocoa, Rubber). These projects will have major direct and indirect environmental and social impacts, with large areas of pristine tropical rainforest permanently destroyed, and large numbers of rural communities affected. The impact on wildlife and forest ecology cannot be underestimated with impacts on sensitive Great Apes (gorilla and Chimpanzee), elephant and other bush meat species populations. The direct impacts can be summarized as follows: Direct loss of HCV forest and important wildlife habitat in WWF priority places; Increased consumption of Great apes and bushmeat and elephant poaching for ivory; Deforestation and forest degradation; Accelerated erosion, water, air and noise pollution; Social costs; Opportunity costs to both the State and local communities. Indirectly, the current scramble for Africa’s natural resources and especially for countries of the Congo Basin region leads to conflict over available land, resulting in overlap between, for example, palm oil concessions and protected areas, or mineral exploration …