Tusk Supported Projects

Big Life’s vision is to help bring an end to the rampant poaching in the Amboseli ecosystem.

The mountain, or eastern Bongo is one of the rarest large mammals in Africa.

The Borana Conservancy works with local communities and other partners to ensure a sustainable ecosystem in the savannah habitat of East Africa.

Grevy’s Zebra Trust (GZT) works closely with communities to combat threats from habitat degradation, lack of dry season water access, and hunting by nomadic pastoralists.

Kenyan waters are home to five threatened species of sea turtles - Green, Hawksbill, Olive Ridley, Leatherback and Loggerhead.

The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy works as a model and catalyst for the conservation of wildlife and its habitat.

The community programme is based on in-depth consultations with the rural population to secure their participation in the scheme and guarantee that tangible benefits of wildlife conservation reach the local people.

The education programme works with local schools and individual students as well as the wider community around the park and further afield.

Lion Landscapes works primarily in the Laikipia area of Kenya to protect lions through a programme of research, capacity building, and innovation.

The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) was established in 2004 to develop community wildlife conservancies in northern Kenya.

In 2001 local Samburu communities formed the Sera Wildlife Conservancy (SWC) with the aim of bringing together three historically rival ethnic groups to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources in their traditional lands.

The Maa Trust works alongside community-owned wildlife conservancies to promote conservation through sustainable development.