Positive Impact at Epic Hotel & Suites
Caring for the land and its people
Mantis EPIC Hotel & Suites in Rwanda is committed to making a positive impact in Nyagatare ensuring that the nature and its wildlife can thrive for generations to come.
Why does nature loss matter?
At Mantis Epic Hotel and Suites, we believe that nature is our life-support system. From the fresh air we breathe, to the clean water we drink, nature provides the essentials we all rely on for our survival and well-being. And it also holds the key to our prosperity, with millions of livelihoods and much of our economic activity also depending on the natural world.
We know that we are losing nature faster than it can restore itself. And without urgent action, significant harm to people and the planet is inevitable: inadequate food and water for our growing global population, significant harm to our economies, and the mass extinction of a species.
Meanwhile, the warning signs continue to mount, regarding the loss of biodiversity due to human activities.
Ongoing conservation projects at Mantis Epic Hotel
In 2022, Epic hotel established five ongoing conservation projects:
- tree planting/nursery beds,
- beehives,
- bird & bat boxes,
- butterfly garden, and
- reintroduction of aquatic plants to ponds and streams.
These initiatives help to:
- Protect and restore nature for the benefit of people and the environment
- Promote no more loss of natural spaces or extinctions
- Reduce the negative ecological impacts of production and consumption.
Epic Hotel planted 500 indigenous trees and 30 fruits in its garden compound, 300 indigenous trees in partnership with the local schools and 100 Agroforest trees in Mirama Primary School. Aquatic plants were planted in the hotel pond which provided shelter for aquatic animals like frogs, toad pods, fish, snails, insects, and aquatic microorganisms, to balance the aquatic ecosystems. 25 bat boxes were installed in every corner of the compound; and 2 modern beehives and one traditional hive were introduced, all of which are filled with colonies of bees.
The impact of the featured hotel projects:Â birds, bats and bees
- Provision of habitats for birds, bats, bees and aquatic species
- Decrease of human wildlife conflict, due to bird collision and nest construction on the hotel building
- Community education on environmental conservation
- Ecosystem balance
- Presence of new birds’ species like aquatic birds
- Increase in species richness – biodiversity!
Conclusion
The fate of environmental protection, human development and nature are linked together. We must transform our working systems to achieve healthy people and a healthy planet. It’s clear our effort in conservation need to change urgently to work with the environment, not against it.
Words by Agri-engineer, Paul Mugisha
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