African Conservation and Development Foundation (ACDEF)

The African Conservation and Development Foundation or ACDEF is an environmental international charity headquartered in Cambridge. It is the offspring of years of collective and individual thinking and consultation by a group of experienced Africans and international professionals. This group believes in the power of collective efforts in reaching regional to global targets in the area of sustainable development in Africa.
ACDEF is a platform constituted of biologists, economists, development experts, environmental lawyers, conservation and development activists bonded by the common drive to overcome the daunting challenges facing Africa in reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals and tackling the current and emerging threats from climate change.
ACDEF believes in an African continent where the vast arrays of renewable natural resources are efficiently and effectively used to support the
wellbeing of the human population, particularly the poor and vulnerable, while ensuring the sustainability of those resources.
 
ACDEF currently has established field projects in Africa in the areas of sustainable community-based forest enterprises, awareness raising on tropical forests and climate change, monitoring and assessment of deforestation and forest degradation, and the interesting and emerging area of renewable energy as a tool to improve rural livelihoods in Africa and step up the fight against poverty and climate change.