Tusk partners with leading and promising emerging conservationists across Africa, securing donor funding to invest in their grassroots conservation ventures. We provide a platform and amplify their voices to increase their profile, and and facilitate collaboration to enhance their capacity. As a result, we enable partners to accelerate their development from innovative ideas to scalable solutions and ensure their impact on the ground is maximised.
Funding:
Tusk has invested in the growth of over 250 local partner organisations across more than 25 African countries, enabling and empowering the conservation movement across the continent. The Wildlife Ranger Challenge has supported 13,000 rangers and their families and has been a lifeline to keep rangers on the frontline of conservation during often challenging times.
Leadership:
Through the Tusk Conservation Awards, Tusk has recognised 55 inspirational African conservation leaders and showcased their significant impacts in the field across Africa.
Convening:
Tusk has fostered learning, innovation, collaboration between its project partners through four Tusk Conservation Symposia and with business and political leaders through two international Tusk Roundtable events.
Collaborating:
Through our Collaboration Fund we have funded 35 collaboration visits/travel grants between our project partners over the past 6 years. We have one working and fully fledged collaboration project between our partners, the Southern African Wildlife College and Coaching Conservation as a result of the 2019 symposium.
In this coming year we hope to fund 4 similar on-going collaboration projects.
Amplifying:
We have amplified our partners’ work and key stories within Africa and beyond.
Investment in People:
Tusk continues to grow as an organisation with an ever-increasing impact through our project partners.
* All figures show Tusk’s Impact across Africa in 2024
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Species we Protect
Tusk supports the full spectrum of Africa’s landscapes and threatened species, from iconic mammals such as black rhino or ‘Big Tusker’ elephants of Kenya’s savanna, to the seagrass-eating dugong of the Indian Ocean and the elusive Cross River gorilla of western Africa’s tropical rainforest.
Projects
We provide critical funding to enable our project partners to grow and increase their impact on habitat and wildlife.
The Ripple Effect of Collaboration
Damian Bell, CEO of the Honeyguide Foundation, discusses the impact of attending the Tusk Conservation Symposium and the benefits of collaboration and combining resources.