Alexander Abraham Foundation - Dedicated to conservation and protection of endangered species in Africa and Asia

Alexander Abraham Foundation: conserving the environment, protection of endangered species, Africa, Asia.

Mescot

The Model Ecologically Sustainable Community Tourism Project (MESCOT) is a grassroots conservation organization in the village of Batu Putih along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. Their activities involve the local communities through a Homestay Program, community based ecotourism activities as well as forest conservation, lake restorations and rehabilitation projects in the Lower Kinabatangan.

The lake before

The lake after

In the past 6 months, a team from MESCOT supported by AAF has been able to manually clear a lake infested with an aquatic fern called Salvinia. “The area is now BEAUTIFUL and ALIVE (no longer stagnant and dying), and rich with wildlife - fish life returning in abundance leading to bird life coming back in abundance: oriental darters, purple herons, storm storks, etc. everywhere.” witnessed Cynthia Ong from LEAP.

The Mescot Silvinia Story Part 1
1st MESCOT-KOPEL Lake Restoration Evaluation Report, June 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo

On February 18th,2007, the Abraham Conservation Award was presented to 16 recipients from the Democratic Republic of Congo in a Ceremony held in Kinshasa. The Abraham Conservation Awards celebrate and recognize the courage and dedicated contribution of individuals who labor, in obscurity and oftentimes at great personal risk, to save Congo's natural landscapes and the wildlife that inhabits them.