The Modisa Project continues to thrive as we protect critical wildlife areas near Botswana's Kalahari Transfrontier National Park! During this year's wildfire season uncontrolled intense bushfires pose a threat ranches, farms, and project areas. The Gazelle team alongside Valentin Gruner, a conservationist and operator at the Modisa property, conducted aerial surveys to monitor wildfires and strengthened existing fire breaks to reduce fuel connectivity along the project's boundary. Learn more about our work at thegazelle.co or contact us at team@thegazelle.co!

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Baseline additionality. Compared to the baseline scenario the project needs to mitigate climate change. That is the project must implement actions that are additional to what would occur compared to the baseline.

Level 1 additionality

Technology, institutional, common practice additionality. The project must implement actions that are subject to barriers of implementation or accelerate deployment of technology or activities and carbon market incentives are essential in overcoming these barriers.

Level 3 additionality

Financial additionality I. A project is financially additional if it results in higher costs or relatively lower profitability than would have otherwise occurred in the baseline scenario.

Level 4a additionality

Africa

Modisa Wildlife Project

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Botswana's WMAs are some of the last remaining corridors for the free-range movements of wildlife in southern Africa. In the last few years Botswana has lost over 800,000 hectares, or four WMAs, due to the cycle of land degradation, encroachment and conversion. Urgent climate action is needed in order for these ecosystems to be protected and thrive.

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

SDG 13: Climate Action

By protecting native savannah ecosystems the project is successfully avoiding land-use conversion in a business as usual scenario. In the baseline the land would have been converted for commercial grazing use, overgrazed, and subject to bush encroachment and/or desertification.

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

SDG 15: Life on Land

Afforestation and reforestation

A trailblazer in sustainable wildlife conservation, the MODISA project protects 17,000 hectares of untouched savannah grassland ecosystems in the Botswana Kalahari from commercial development. The project site is located adjacent to the KD15 Wildlife Management Area (WMA) serving as a critical wildlife passage for the Kalahari Transfrontier National Park. The project maintains the integrity of local ecosystems while re-investing into wildlife conservation and environmental science research.

MODISA Wildlife Project: Protecting Wilderness Areas in the African Kalahari

Botswana

Afforestation and reforestation

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