MIMAMPI HONEY PROJECT
The Pimbwe people of south west Tanzania once hunted game and grazed their cattle across the vast floodplains of Katavi and Rukwa. Now much of this area has been gazetted as a National Park and Government Game Reserve. MIMAMPI - Forest Environment of the Pimbwe - is a grass-root conservation movement that aims to keep the land buffering the Park under local village control. The trust supports community-based Forest Reserves, Village Game Scouts, as well as honey-projects, schools and local womens’ development groups. This year MIMAMPI will be opening a eco-tourist Honey-Hut at an old poacher’s den on the outskirts of the Park.
When Nomad Tanzania was created in 2003, it committed to support three Trusts which had already been established by the founders of the companies that made up the new Nomad Tanzania – Greystoke Mahale & Chada Katavi, Nomad Safari Guides, and Sand Rivers Selous. These Trusts related to the areas in which the individual companies were operating and were all born organically as a result of continual contact with the issues in the different areas. The Nomad Trust now provides administrative and fund raising support for the following affiliated trusts, and is a totally non-profit making organization. Any funds given to the individual projects are 100% committed to those projects themselves.