Africa Projects

Africa is home to unique ecosystems and vibrant cultural heritage that are invaluable for their ecological, cultural, and recreational significance. By funding conservation efforts in this region, the ATCF aims to protect these irreplaceable assets from environmental degradation and cultural erosion, ensuring that both local communities and adventure travelers can continue to benefit from Africa's rich natural and cultural landscapes.

The Elephant Express Conservation Bus, BOTSWANA

Award: $10,000 Funded: 2020
The Elephant Express buses educate and promote human-wildlife coexistence by safely transporting vulnerable members of the community through an elephant corridor along which elephants move between key wildlife tourism areas.

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Fighting Poaching to Preserve Wildlife, KENYA

Award: $8,000 Funded: 2020
Finding long-term solutions that involve the Maasai communities in conservation efforts to protect their heritage & their futures.

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Planting Trees for a Native Future, KENYA

Award: $10,000 Funded: 2021
Planting native trees in a degraded landscape not only stores carbon in the living trees, but also increases soil carbon through the organic matter and vast root network which binds the soil, preventing erosion, and the loss of water and topsoil.

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Saving Unique Desert Lions, NAMIBIA

Award: $20,000 Funded: 2019
Addressing the conflict between people and wildlife requires the striking of a balance between conservation priorities and the needs of the people who share their land with wildlife.

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Outfitting Rhino Rangers, NAMIBIA

Award: $7,000 Funded: 2021
Planting native trees in a degraded landscape not only stores carbon in the living trees, but also increases soil carbon through the organic matter and vast root network which binds the soil, preventing erosion, and the loss of water and topsoil.

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Protecting the Living Landscape in Conservancies, NAMIBIA

Award: $15,000 Funded: 2023
This project will create a haven for wildlife, produce a steady stream of revenue that can be used to manage and preserve the greater landscape, and will also create employment at a local level in addition to a new revenue stream that can be used for general development projects.

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Conserving Chimpanzee-Elephant Corridors through Tourism Partnerships, TANZANIA

Award: $20,000 Funded: 2019
Establishing a community eco-tourism venture to provide long-term, sustained financial benefits to communities in key chimpanzee–elephant wildlife corridors

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Permanent Settlement to Batwa Pygmies, UGANDA

Award: $16,500 Funded: 2017
Creating a permanent settlement for the Gahinga community of Batwa pygmies. A site of about ten acres of land was acquired next to the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda, and the construction of homes for 18 families (105 adults and children) is well underway.

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Protecting People and Mountain Gorillas Through Health Education, UGANDA

Award: $15,000 Funded: 2023
Promote biodiversity conservation by enabling people, gorillas, and other wildlife to coexist by improving their health and livelihoods in and around Africa’s protected areas.

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Solar Water Hole for Community & Wildlife, ZIMBABWE

Award: $20,000 Funded: 2018
Helping to sustain water resources vital to wildlife and communities in Zimbabwe’s largest national park.

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Community Rhino Conservation Initiative, ZIMBABWE

Award: $15,000 Funded: 2023
Ground-breaking collaborative project that has brought white rhinos to communal lands adjacent to Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park in an effort to (1) rebuild viable populations of white rhinos in the area, (2) establish a buffer zone between the National Park and communities to alleviate human-wildlife conflicts and (3) provide socio-economic opportunities for the communities who are custodians of these rhino.

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