Tusk Supported Projects

Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) promotes gorilla conservation among local communities by improving healthcare and economic opportunities.

With funding from the UK Government through the IWT Challenge Fund, Tusk provided specialist training to tackle poaching across 15 protected areas.

Rabies is a fatal disease that affects people (mainly children) and a wide range of mammal species.

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.

Honeyguide is working to secure protection for elephants, their habitat and migratory routes though sustainable community conservation in Makame Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in the Tarangire ecosystem of Tanzania.

IMPACT aims to protect and conserve Madagascar’s unique biodiversity while improving the lives of its people.

Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) is Namibia’s oldest field-based NGO.

The Karingani Game Reserve is situated in southern Mozambique and shares its borders with South Africa’s Kruger National Park (KNP), and Limpopo National Park (LNP).

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.