For more than two decades, African Parks has been working to restore and manage wildlife landscapes in Malawi, beginning with Majete Wildlife Reserve in 2003. That long-running conservation work has now become the testing ground for a different question, how can the ecological health of protected areas be measured in a way that also helps attract long-term funding? The organisation developed the Verifiable Nature Unit (VNU) with The Landbanking Group as an outcomes-based system for measuring, reporting and verifying changes in nature. The African Parks Organisation says the first VNU pilot was launched at Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi, after more than 20 years of conservation management. The model has since expanded beyond Malawi, with VNU projects in three large African parks covering a combined 1.37 million hectares.
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