Award: $15,000 Funded: 2024

Our project involves purchasing beehives and constructing a honey extraction facility to empower local Pokot women by producing high-quality honey, which will increase community income, enhance biodiversity through improved pollination, and reduce human-wildlife conflicts. Additionally, the facility will serve as a tourism attraction, offering visitors the chance to learn about local honey production and the culture of the Pokot community, further supporting sustainable economic development and conservation of local flora and fauna. This project is intended as a model that can be adapted and replicated in other regions, contributing to the long-term resilience and prosperity of communities similar to Mugie.

Award: $15,000 Funded: 2024

The lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park are unique. They are one of only 3 populations in Africa that have a culture of climbing trees. If the park loses the last 39 lions this unique behavior will also be lost and will not return even if new lions are reintroduced to the park. Kyambura Lion Monitoring Project conducts an annual large carnivore census and collects data for African lions, leopards and spotted hyenas using a network of vehicles and remote camera traps.   The project aims to establish a science-based conservation program that supports the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) in the scientific monitoring and protection of large carnivores, respond to injured animals and human/wildlife conflict incidents, helps to assess the impact of conservation work currently being done, and trains young Ugandans from the Kyambura community in scientific conservation techniques. 

Award: 15,000 Funded: 2024

The  project will help provide water for wild animals in the southern part of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park while also supporting the communities in establishing irrigated and fenced communal food gardens. Given this year's drought and the increased competition between people and animals for water and food, these activities will be fundamental in limiting and alleviating human-wildlife conflicts in the area.

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.

Award: $8,000 Funded: 2020

Finding long-term solutions that involve the Maasai communities in conservation efforts to protect their heritage & their futures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Award: $20,000 Funded: 2018

Helping to sustain water resources vital to wildlife and communities in Zimbabwe’s largest national park.

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.