We don’t often think of refugees as animals or people displaced by conservation efforts. Yet, wildlife reserves often create invisible boundaries that keep people out and animals within. The local tribes often desire to continue to use traditional lands within the preserve or next to it for food and agriculture. These practices can lead to many unfortunate situations where wildlife destroy crops or raid livestock.

As part of its core mission, MCM has the desire to reduce these often deadly encounters. We must strive to find new ways to mitigate this ongoing challenge.

By highlighting the examples of many leading NGOs around the continent, we bring attention to and focus on numerous innovative and workable solutions to this difficult task of keeping both people and animals safe.

Our stories come from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Arica and feature various communities and their solutions for reducing conflict. MCM dedicates substantial resources to supporting and educating local communities around this issue.

Your donation will provide resources for entire communities to help reduce these fatal conflicts.

The global trade in bushmeat is thriving. Economic survival, food costs, demand for exotic products, a growing middle class, and unproven traditional medical treatments are all at fault. Beyond the pressures this illegal business puts on local wildlife, it also presents a clear and present danger to humans in the form of zoonotic diseases.

The challenge to local communities is fundamental. Food security and affordability have become paramount in many African countries. With the recent loss of tourism dollars due to the pandemic, many people struggle to purchase beef or chicken, so they turn to bushmeat as a free alternative. The results are devastating for numerous species. They could also result in a possible outbreak of a new, unknown pandemic.

Can we change the way people exploit local wildlife, much of it threatened or endangered? Can we prevent the next pandemic in the process?

MCM will make an in-depth exploration uncovering the driving forces and people behind the bushmeat trade. Nigeria will act as the focal point, but we'll also explore how bushmeat thrives in many countries across Africa and Asia.

Your donation will provide programs that highlight potential solutions such as alternative livelihoods, demand reduction, and better law enforcement.

Every day, countless animals get caught up in the live animal trade, the bushmeat business, and the illegal selling of animal parts. But what of the rescued, the surrendered, and the survivors? How can local communities deter these activities, and how can they help the animals who survive?

The focus of this program is for MCM to illuminate the wildlife champions that work around the clock to give these injured creatures a second chance. Without their incredible efforts, many more animals would perish due to the devastating results of bringing wildlife and wildlife parts to markets around the world.

By featuring ordinary people and trained vets and scientists, we'll go behind the scenes with these dedicated individuals who risk their lives in a never-ending battle against this illegal trade. The viewer will learn how these extraordinary people bring all types of wildlife to new life, especially the pangolin, the world's most trafficked mammal on the planet.

The global wildlife trade threatens numerous species from rhinos to pangolins to tigers. We must find solutions to this intractable problem if these iconic animals are to survive.

Your donation will help others understand the vital importance of the part of the story that occurs after deadly confrontations and illegal poaching trafficking activities.