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Women and conservation

Every day, all over the world, women make countless choices that affect the environment.

Himba women

It's often women who decide how communities should use resources, including:

  • water for cooking, washing and cleaning
  • land for agriculture
  • wood for heating and cooking
  • plants and animals for food and sale

What WWF is doing
We recognise the different roles women and men play in managing natural resources. We work with both groups to improve the way they look after the environment and find opportunities to improve their livelihoods.

Members of the Kalpana Women's Group at Mohanpur, near Royal Bardia National Park, Nepal

Our successful women’s programmes include:

  • small business development
  • access to health services such as family planning and maternal and child health
  • efficient and sustainable agriculture techniques
  • literacy programmes

Women, members of a WWF supported project, on a plantation in Mambele, East province, Cameroon