Programmes
Making a difference with restoration, conservation, new knowledge and local ownership.
Making a difference with restoration, conservation, new knowledge and local ownership.
DOB Ecology supports programmes that focus on forests and wetlands, in Africa and South America.
We work on four main themes:
At the core these ecological activities are to preserve, manage, recover, and make wise use of biodiversity. This includes the prevention of the further deterioration or collapse of ecosystems, formulating solutions to address extinctions and fragmented habitats, reverse biodiversity loss, make use sustainable, and restore the resilience of threatened and vulnerable ecosystems.
DOB Ecology acknowledges that the interplay between human and natural systems is extraordinarily complex. While the quantity of data is rapidly increasing, its quality or usefulness is often difficult to determine or interpret. To address this, DOB Ecology will support the development of new knowledge and news ways to gather, understand and analyse information and data – and work closely with scientists right from the start.
The Tristao islands are located in the northern part of Guinea close to the border with Guinea Bissau.
The Manafwa watershed is one of the biggest watersheds (600 km2) near the Mount Elgon region in Uganda.
A long-term programme around five locations in Argentina and Peru to support the unique biodiversity and the livelihoods of the local communities.
Protecting the Corredor Azul: one of the world’s last remaining large and free-flowing river systems.
Establishing a unique research group to generate global maps of ecological information to guide local, national and international forest restoration.
The Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) is located in the southern part of South Africa, across parts of the Western, Southern and Eastern Cape.
Towards environmentally sustainable and socially responsible governance of La Plata Basin
Restoration of a degraded forest reserve to its former production function, where remnants of the original vegetation are protected and strengthened to become refuges for biodiversity and where land users in and around the reserve use sustanable land practices.
Tropical mangroves are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems on earth.
Starting up an ambitious freshwater – species landscape programme focussing on the Upper Zambezi.
In the northeast Amazon, there thrives a region of more than 30 million hectares of intact pristine rainforest, its ecosystems largely untouched and its vibrant indigenous cultures still active.
The Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest forest, and stretches over portions of Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina as well as a corner of Brazil.
Resource Watch is an open freely accessible, online global data system that unites technology, transparency and human networks to drive sustainable management of the planet’s resources.
Growing buffers to ensure food security, livelihoods and biodiversity.
Connecting, Protecting, and Restoring the Most Threatened Ecosystem in South America.
The Tristao islands are located in the northern part of Guinea close to the border with Guinea Bissau.
read moreThe Manafwa watershed is one of the biggest watersheds (600 km2) near the Mount Elgon region in Uganda.
read moreA long-term programme around five locations in Argentina and Peru to support the unique biodiversity and the livelihoods of the local communities.
read moreProtecting the Corredor Azul: one of the world’s last remaining large and free-flowing river systems.
read moreEstablishing a unique research group to generate global maps of ecological information to guide local, national and international forest restoration.
read moreThe Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve (GCBR) is located in the southern part of South Africa, across parts of the Western, Southern and Eastern Cape.
read moreTowards environmentally sustainable and socially responsible governance of La Plata Basin
read moreRestoration of a degraded forest reserve to its former production function, where remnants of the original vegetation are protected and strengthened to become refuges for biodiversity and where land users in and around the reserve use sustanable land practices.
read moreTropical mangroves are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems on earth.
read moreStarting up an ambitious freshwater – species landscape programme focussing on the Upper Zambezi.
read moreIn the northeast Amazon, there thrives a region of more than 30 million hectares of intact pristine rainforest, its ecosystems largely untouched and its vibrant indigenous cultures still active.
read moreThe Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest forest, and stretches over portions of Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina as well as a corner of Brazil.
read moreResource Watch is an open freely accessible, online global data system that unites technology, transparency and human networks to drive sustainable management of the planet’s resources.
read moreGrowing buffers to ensure food security, livelihoods and biodiversity.
read moreConnecting, Protecting, and Restoring the Most Threatened Ecosystem in South America.
read more