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GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK

Gorongosa National Park is home to one of the most inspiring restoration projects in Africa, located at the southern end of the Great East African Rift Valley. Apart from the valley floor, it includes parts of surrounding plateaus and rivers originating from Mount Gorongosa. Gorongosa once supported some of the most dense populations of wildlife in Africa, but most of the animals and connected ecosystems were destroyed during Mozambique's devastating civil conflict between the 1977 and 1992.
Today, the Carr Foundation in association with the Mozambique government have developed a groundbreaking long-term restoration agreement to help restore the entire region.
This huge project is directly benefiting surrounding subsistence based communities with education and eco-friendly employment opportunities, bringing them out of poverty.

Community work includes restoring as close as possible the original natural infrastructure of Gorongosa with tree planting and animal reintroduction. Other vocations include the many servicing jobs associated with the park's growing eco-tourism. Schools and health clinics are now being built to vitalise and educate these communities towards a healthy and environmentally intact future.
Importantly, the park has no connection with the extraction industry and are proactive against encroaching gold mining in the surrounding mountain forests and river banks.
Gorongosa's nondestructive, sustainable ecological principles provides inspiration to its surrounding communities, away from the down-spiralling vortex of mining and its dependency and instead working towards protection and growth of the Gorongosa environment - instead of digging up its fragile ecology.

*How Laibach Helps
Laibach donations are initially focused on school building in and around Gorongosa Park, which helps to educate new generations of the indigenous people of Gorongosa towards protecting their precious homeland and to work with it sustainably and interdependently.
When you buy a Laibach piece, fifteen percent of the profit is awarded to selected conservation / wildlife protection organisations and land-care educational programmes in developing countries.
Please see more about Kerstin Laibach's wildlife and environmental commitments here.

Kerstin encourages her customers to also donate directly to the Gorongosa Project.

(See also our links page for more details on other projects Laibach directly supports)

Atelier Laibach's commitment to wildlife and the environment
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