This project seeks to advocate against indiscriminate bush burning to kill wildlife for meat. In the alternative, project will promote the breeding of the Great Cane-Rat (Thryonomys swinderianus), more popularly and commonly called ‘grasscutter’ (GC) in Nigeria.

The goals of the project are three-fold:

- To discourage bush-burning as a traditional practice for harvesting wildlife;

- To create alternative self-reliant incentives for and to use local people as advocates against bush-burning;

- To explore the economic potential of grasscutter breeding while, at the same time, taking away the social environmental consequences associated with the quest for the animal.