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Last month, the Tusk Symposium in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together a number of our conservation partners for the first time, with the overall aim of “Sharing Success in African Conservation”.

At the end of May 2019, Tusk CEO, Charlie Mayhew travelled out to Kenya with a team from Land Rover to put a prototype of the New Defender through its paces at the Borana Wildlife Conservancy in Laikipia, northern Kenya.

Announcing the shortlist for the 2019 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa, Charlie Mayhew, Tusk Trust CEO said: "Thanks to the dedication of these extraordinary men and women working on the front line of conservation, there is a brighter future for Africa's wildlife. To them extinction is simply not an option.”

Broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough has played an unprecedented role in connecting people to the wonders of the natural world. Today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sir David was interviewed by Tusk’s Royal Patron Prince William about his life’s work and how he has inspired us for generations.

Together with Exceptional Travel, we are pioneering long-term conservation travel, a sustainable way to support the protection of nature, wildlife, and local communities. Remote, vast, and lesser known than it's neighbours, Namibia is a country that takes you further off the grid than you thought possible. Towering terra cotta sand dunes, coastal deserts, Etosha National Park with desert adapted wildlife and a specialist area where Tusk supported project Save the Rhino Namibia, are leading the way in conserving the critically endangered black rhino.

Tusk is joining forces with Send a Cow to launch the Living with Wildlife appeal to protect the people and wildlife of Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda.

In late 2023, increasing reports of poaching incidences in Northern Botswana raised questions as to whether a surge in elephant poaching is limited to this area, or is more widespread and a growing concern across African countries.

Look out, London, the gorillas are in town. Fifteen life-sized gorilla sculptures have landed throughout Covent Garden.

Lewis fails to consider our moral obligation to an iconic species, as well as the UK’s potential to influence and support global action to halt the march of the fourth largest criminal industry in the world.