Tusk Projects

Northeast Namibia is home to the largest free-ranging black rhino population in the world.

The Waterberg area of Limpopo province holds over 2,000 rhinos - the third largest population in South Africa.

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.

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

The Bateleurs is a unique non-profit organisation of volunteer pilot members who give their aviation skills, the use of their privately-owned aircraft, and their time for free in support of conservation and the environment in Africa.

The Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit is the first majority female anti-poaching unit in South Africa.

Founded as the Botswana Wild Dog Research Project in 1989, the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (BPCT) is now one of the longest-running carnivore conservation programmes in Africa

The Chimpanzee Conservation Center (CCC) is a rescue and rehabilitation site for orphaned chimpanzees.

The Cross River gorilla – a subspecies of the western gorilla – is Africa’s most endangered great ape.

The Giant Sable is a critically endangered antelope found only in central Angola.

The critically endangered Western lowland gorilla is found across a range of some 700,000km2 in the Congo Basin.

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