Miguel has worked within Maputo National Park since 1999, becoming Park Warden in 2008. Under Miguel’s inspirational leadership across the last 12 years, the park has changed dramatically from a free-for-all hunting ground to a landscape able to support thriving populations of wildlife and recovering ecosystems, both in the ocean and on land.
Earlier today, participants in Kenya entered the 20th Safaricom Marathon, hosted by Tusk and the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, with approximately 1,200 participants registering within 1½ hours. With further runners coming from overseas, a total of 1,400 are once again expected to participate in the event, which this year will take place on Saturday 29th June.
Tusk are delighted to announce that at last night’s (May 9) Tusk Ball we raised over £500k for our conservation projects in Africa, which we will distribute in grants before the end of the year. We are indebted to everyone who made the event at Kensington Palace possible and supported us, in particular Rory Bremner, Deborah Meaden, James Lewis, Katherine Jenkins and John Owen-Jones.
The 19th Safaricom Marathon, hosted by Tusk and the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, was this year graced by Her Excellency the First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Kenyatta, who started the race and visited some of the important conservation and community work that it supports.
The highly anticipated results of the Great Elephant Census have been released, reconfirming all of our fears about the scale of the poaching crisis, with the savanna elephant population declining by 30% in the past seven years.
Following a recent visit to the Kenyan coast, Tusk Philanthropy Manager Anna Hunt reports back on the incredible marine conservation work being done by the Lamu Marine Conservation Trust.
The Duke of Cambridge, Royal Patron of Tusk Trust, this evening joined more than five hundred guests at Syon House for the charity’s 25th Anniversary Ball.
"Every day l spend with gorillas brings me more and more excitement and understanding about how these gentle giants live." Goreth Niyibuzu, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
David Daballen is the Director of Field Operations for Save The Elephants. As an ambassador and warrior for elephants for the past 20 years, he’s been involved in more than 100 collaring operations and can identify 500 individuals.
Tusk welcomes the UK’s Ivory Act 2018, which became law with Royal Assent today, introducing the tightest ban on ivory sales in Europe, and one of the toughest in the world.