Broadcasting to a Reserve – How Radio Can Save Lives Across the OWR

Anyone who has turned on their radio in Mambasa has most likely heard the voice of one of OCP’s educators. As the main news outlet and information source in this remote region, radio broadcasts are a reliable way to be informed about critical news in the region, learn about the environment, and become familiar with ways to improve their livelihoods. The OCP Education team’s broadcasts provide carefully curated content spanning a wide variety of topics meant to empower people around the Reserve by showing them how to protect the environment for the benefit of people and animals, share with them the purpose of OCP programs and the laws of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve. Topics range as far as education on the local ecology, support for farmers and agriculture techniques, the work of ICCN Eco-Guards, and notice on events such as World Indigenous Peoples Day and World Okapi Day. Without these broadcasts as a source of information, the community would have limited access to news and knowledge due to poor communication infrastructure.  To read more, click here.