The main goal of the project is to preserve and promote Lesotho?s biological diversity, reduce land degradation and generate income through plantation and processing of indigenous and exotic/ornamental bamboo. Objectives include but are not limited to mobilization of five (5) community groups in Liqoabing area to form legally registered entities for ease of bamboo project implementation, capacitating of eighty (80) communitiy members from five registered groups with technical skills training in bamboo production and management, establishment of a nursery of +3000 seedling capacity in the Liqoabing area for seedling transplanation to the gullies and monitoring of effective performance and assessment of the impact of the bamboo project in Liqoabing.