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Fig. 8.15 Concrete tank to protect a spring. This project provided jobs and taught skills

(b) Spring/stream development tanks
(c) Dam construction

2. Beekeeping
3. Establishment of orchards and vine yards
4. Rabbit Rearing (Herders)
5. Promotion and establishment of labour intensive works in order to increase local
benefits
6. To treat this particular pilot area as the model for other places within and outside
the district
7. Creation of jobs to the villagers by development of cottage and fruit processing
industries.

Figure 8.15 is an example of a project involving the local community.

4 Conclusions

Although the recommended target of protected area for each country is 10 %,
Lesotho still has less than 1 % as the area under formal protection (Fig. 8.3 ).
This is made up of the Sehlabathebe National Park (SNP), Tsehlanyane National
Park (TNP), Bokong Nature Reserve (BNR) and Masitise Nature Reserve (MNR).
Some attempts are being made to increase this area. These protected areas do not
cover all the significant ecological areas of the country. Many of them are also