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How We Protect
Wild Africa

Three programmes, one team, and a habit of doing the unglamorous work that keeps a species from disappearing.

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Community Rangers
Trained and deployed
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Protected Areas
Under active management
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Rhino Losses
In partner conservancies since 2018
0%
Funds to Field
Of every dollar donated
African leopard resting in a tree
Program 01

Wildlife Protection &
Anti-Poaching

Rangers are the ones actually standing between a snare and an animal. Ours work rotating shifts across genuinely difficult terrain, combining old-fashioned tracking with GPS collars, drone flyovers, and intelligence built from years of relationships with people in the surrounding communities.

Catching someone in the act isn't the end of it. We work with park authorities and police so the intelligence actually leads somewhere — not just a confiscated snare and a warning.

1,200+
Rangers Trained
94%
Patrol Coverage
7
Countries Active
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Community conservation programme
Program 02

Community Stewardship &
Livelihoods

It's an old, unfair pattern: the people living closest to wildlife pay the highest price for it — crop damage, livestock losses, land restrictions — and see the least benefit. We try to flip that by tying real income to healthy wildlife populations instead.

In practice that's community-owned lodges, honey cooperatives, and handicraft businesses that only make sense if the gorillas, or the wild dogs, or the rhinos are still around next year.

18,600+
Beneficiaries
42
Villages Partnered
$2.1M
Livelihoods Generated
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Wildlife researcher in field
Program 03

Research, Science &
Monitoring

Good intentions don't save a species — accurate numbers do. Our research team spends most of its time counting things: population surveys, disease checks, habitat assessments, and long-term monitoring across the 312-plus species we track.

We publish what we find, usually alongside university partners, because a finding that sits in a filing cabinet doesn't help anyone else working on the same problem.

312
Species Monitored
64
Papers Published
18
University Partners
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Our Approach

The AFWINC Method

Not so much a formula as a habit we've built over 27 years of getting things wrong before getting them right.

01

Assess

Landscape-level baseline surveys, threat analysis, and community needs assessment before any programme begins.

02

Co-Design

Programmes developed with communities, local government, and scientific partners — never imposed from outside.

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Implement

African-led field teams execute with rigour, adapting in real time to conditions on the ground.

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Measure & Scale

Annual evaluations, published results, and replication of successful models across new landscapes.

Where Africa's Wildlife Lives

Game Parks & Conservation Centers

Flagship protected areas across the countries where our programmes operate.

🇺🇬 Uganda

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

A UNESCO World Heritage Site in southwestern Uganda, home to roughly half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas.

🇺🇬 Uganda

Queen Elizabeth National Park

Uganda's most visited park, spanning crater lakes and savanna along the Kazinga Channel, with tree-climbing lions and over 600 bird species.

🇺🇬 Uganda

Murchison Falls National Park

Uganda's largest national park, named for the point where the Nile forces itself through a narrow gorge to form a dramatic waterfall.

🇺🇬 Uganda

Kidepo Valley National Park

A remote, rugged park in Uganda's northeast corner, known for its semi-arid landscapes and species found nowhere else in the country.

🇺🇬 Uganda

Kibale National Park

One of the highest primate densities in Africa, home to habituated chimpanzee communities and twelve other primate species.

🇰🇪 Kenya

Maasai Mara National Reserve

World-renowned for the Great Wildebeest Migration and among the highest concentrations of lions, leopards, and cheetahs in Africa.

🇹🇿 Tanzania

Serengeti National Park

One of the world's oldest and most studied ecosystems, its endless plains hosting the annual Great Migration.

🇹🇿 Tanzania

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

A UNESCO World Heritage Site built around the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive volcanic caldera and one of the densest concentrations of wildlife on Earth.

🇷🇼 Rwanda

Volcanoes National Park

Set in the Virunga Mountains, protecting critically endangered mountain gorillas alongside golden monkeys.

🇨🇩 DR Congo

Virunga National Park

Africa's oldest national park and one of its most biodiverse, spanning glaciated peaks, savanna, and lowland forest.

🇿🇦 South Africa

Kruger National Park

One of Africa's largest game reserves, home to the Big Five and extensive anti-poaching operations.

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Hwange National Park

Zimbabwe's largest national park, known for its elephant population and long-running waterhole conservation projects.

Get Involved

These programmes run on
your support

89 cents of every dollar you give goes straight to field operations. Ask us for the breakdown and we'll send it — ranger salaries, fuel, equipment, community grants.

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