The project aims to contribute to the conservation of the mountain biodiversity of Biriwa Chiefdom and protect the ecologically rich but fragile tropical woodland savanna environment which is constantly prone to overgrazing by herds of cattle and drought in the dry season. The project shall endeavour to reverse the continued rapid land degradation in three communities. These communities have been chosen due to the decades of extensive harmful traditional slash-and-burn farming methods under the bush fallow crop cultivation system, open cattle grazing under the nomadic pastoralism system of animal husbandry, and the harvests of rare and threatened species of tropical hardwood for timber logs exportation. As a remedy to promote biodiversity and protect the mountain ecology, the project shall introduce agroecology of fruit and forest tree planting, pastoral cattle ranching and bee keeping as three livelihoods approaches for women and youths in the project communities. The restoration of degraded overgrazed and abandoned farmland through cashew tree planting coupled with fire belt construction shall protect the environment from wild bush fire burning; the pastoral cattle ranching entails the concentration of livestock in one enclosed grazing field thereby protecting the entire available community land against overgrazing thus induce regeneration of vegetation in the wider local environment. The beekeeping will contribute to maintaining the stability of the natural environment through pollination of crops and tree planted, promoting wild plant growth, richness and diversity. This promotes agricultural productivity and food sufficiency within the project community.

The project has three key intervention strategies/ approaches namely: (1) natural regeneration and restoration of 250 hectares of mountain biodiversity containing various ecology including tropical woodland savanna forest being conserved and prevented from animal overgrazing; (2) 20 hectares of degraded community farmland converted into productive landscape through cashew tree and other fruit tree planting; (3) 200 community people (125 women farmers and 75 youths farmers) directly engaged in certified honey production as an alternative sustainable income generating activities; and (4) empowerment and poverty reduction among over 200 people mainly rural women farmers, youths, and other marginalized populations in project communities. The project shall be located at six villages: Maseyandain, Bumbandain, Kamakontaykay, Kamakayday, Kamankoh and Maforay in Biriwa Chiefdom, Bombali District and shall directly benefit 200 people(150 crop farmers and 50 cattle farmers).