Sayari Earth and Conservation Outcomes are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to support the building out of sustainable conservation finance and land management funding through the carbon markets in Southern Africa.
Conservation Outcomes is a non-profit organisation created to provide support to land that is being developed and managed for biodiversity conservation outside of traditional state protected areas. The focus of the organisation is on securing remnant biodiversity, ecological integrity and resilience whilst contributing to poverty alleviation and meaningful socio-economic development in rural southern Africa through the development of the responsible conservation and wildlife sector.
Sayari Earth is a mission driven social enterprise with the mission to empower people to regenerate our planet. Sayari Earth is working in multiple provinces in South Africa where Conservation Outcomes already works and is expanding our project portfolio to neighboring countries where Conservation Outcomes has the ambition to expand into. As a result, the partnership is a logical one for both organizations.
Sayari Earth is helping to develop landscape scale nature-based carbon removal projects across multi-land use ecosystems interlinking state and private protected areas and agricultural landscapes through a combination of improved land and fire management, regenerative agriculture, and invasive species management through biochar. Conservation Outcomes work with conservation areas outside of state protected areas represent a vital area of connectivity in these landscapes for biodiversity and enhanced and coordinated land and fire management.
Dr. Hassan Sachedina of Sayari Earth said of the collaboration: “We are delighted to be deepening our collaboration with Conservation Outcomes in multiple project sites. With time running out to stay under 2 degrees Celsius in the midst of a mass extinction event makes coalitions with local conservation organizations critical. Impact and quality can be amplified and accelerated through empowering local African organizations to help develop nature-based carbon removal projects”.
“Protected and Conserved areas are essential to ensure the well-being of life on our planet,” says Chris Galliers, Conservation Manager at Conservation Outcomes. “We need these areas to function optimally, which means they must be managed effectively. This is why the Global Biodiversity Framework has set a minimum target of having 30% of the earth’s surface under effective management by 2030. But effective conservation management comes at a cost and that is why we are excited by this partnership with Sayari Earth, as it is critical to find alternative, additional finance mechanisms to improve land management.”
