Tusk Supported Projects

Mount Marsabit, in northern Kenya, is an important regional watershed and provides critical habitat for wildlife including elephant, rhino, lion and Grevy’s zebra.

The Ruaha Carnivore Project (RCP) operates over a huge expanse of wildlife habitat in central Tanzania, where critical carnivore populations frequently come into conflict with local communities.

The Savé Valley Conservancy (SVC) consists of private, Government, and community-owned properties working together to manage animal populations on a landscape scale.

The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC) was established in 1996 to give natural resource managers, at all levels, the motivation and skills they need to become partners in saving the continent's natural heritage.

The Tsavo Conservation Area (TCA) includes nearly half of Kenya’s total protected area.

The Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) was founded in 2001 to support the work of the national conservation agency, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).

Vultures play an important ecological role by cleaning up dead carcasses and decreasing the spread of disease.

The eastern lowland, or Grauer’s gorilla lives only in the Democractic Republic of Congo.

Wilderness Foundation Africa (WFA) works within South Africa, and further afield, to protect and sustain wildlife and wilderness through integrated conservation and education programmes

The Yankari Game Reserve is home to Nigeria’s largest surviving elephant population, estimated at 350 individuals.

With nearly 40% of its land area protected for wildlife, Zambia has the large expanses of wilderness that are necessary to maintain healthy carnivore populations.