LINKING CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT
Awely is an international organisation based in France, created in 2005. Since its inception, we have aimed to put our enthusiasm and our competence in the service of the conservation of endangered species and the ecosystems they share. But since then, in order to achieve our goals in a sustainable way, we have chosen to put the people at the center of our actions. it seems to us that trying to change the future of endangered species and ecosystems when, all too often, the neighbouring human populations lack even the most rudimentary means for survival is not only ethically intolerable but also totally inefficient over the long-term.
In our view, programmes for conservation and development must always work in tandem. Otherwise, given that each day there are many more of us and much less available space on the planet, it is more than likely that all the funds given us and all our concentrated energies will only serve to bring us back, in a very few years, to the exact same situation from which we began our work. This is why we are doing our utmost to understand the problems in their largest context and why we strive to find viable solutions that work equally as well for humans as for wildlife.
Both our Red Caps and Green Caps, are concentrated in southern regions. They are drawn from local communities, we train and equip them directly, and work in collaboration with a local organization that shares our philosophy. We work to build a solid relationship based on confidence with those villagers engaged in activities endangering wildlife and with those villagers who suffer from living closely with those animals. Our involvement does not imply assistance. Rather we encourage these groups to change and improve their own living conditions themselves. We collaborate, we offer support, and we help them to implement their initiatives, to achieve their own project goals, then to live independently. Finally, with our financial partners, we are constructing deep and durable relationships based on mutual trust and openness and dialogue.
