Eco Custodian Advocates

a) recognise and reinforce such traditional environmental knowledge that sustains the ecology, its biodiversity and its custodianship by the community that are a part of it. b) promote the understanding and appreciation of the environment through sound sciences, collaboration with partners, and by being informed through the ‘on ground’ application of our vision. c) educate, empower, strengthen the advocacy of local communities to achieve their natural resource management goals by building their capacity in its sustainable management, providing an appropriate medium for developing their stories, lessons and future plans, into actions that lead to lasting beneficial results. d) facilitate local communities in valuing their environment and ecosystem services as a robust paradigm for development through managing these resources sustainably, whilst meeting their social, cultural, and economic aspirations. e) spread the reach of this approach to other communities through appropriate, partici