| Summary: | Environmental degradation in Lesotho has resulted in decreasing arable land that has adversely affected agricultural productivity and food security. As a response to the declining food production, many people are making a living out of their environmental resources. Some people harvest the medicinal plants from the communal land for sale. As a result, some of the valuable environmental resources and particularly the medicinal plants are now depleted due to over-harvesting. As a response to protecting the depleting environmental resources, governments and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have implemented community based resources conservation projects. On the one hand, many government conservation programmes have followed an autocratic approach that imposes projects on the community. On the other hand, NGOs are complimented for including the affected communities in decision making process through different participatory methods. In this regard, this research paper assesses the contribution of local NGO’s (Serumula Development Association) community based environmental resources conservation programme, Tšenekeng Botanical Garden to environmental conservation and livelihood making.
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