Ranger Teams 2022
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The following conservation organisations participated in the Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2022 and were eligible recipients of the Ranger Fund to support the work of their field-based rangers.
The Tashinga Initiative – Mana Pools National Park, and Doma, Dande, Chewore South, Chewore North, Sapi, Hurungwe and Charara Safari Areas
ZimParks’ Mid-Zambezi Region is made up of 7 contiguous wildlife protected areas of 1,282,000ha. Rangers are employed in territorial integrity, biological monitoring, conservation management, community relations, and in the management of equipment, resources and tourism.
Africa Foundation – Mnemba Island, Vamizi Island & Benguerra Island
Africa Foundation aims to nurture, restore and protect wild landscapes and seascapes by empowering local communities. Oceans Without Borders is our marine conservation initiative, spanning 3000 km of east African coastline.
African Community and Conservation Foundation – Karingani Game Reserve
Karingani has an integrated and enduring vision to become a world-leader in sustainable conservation. Karingani’s goal is to restore, enhance and maintain the natural ecological processes and biodiversity in this vast and strategically important habitat.
African People & Wildlife – Tarangire National Park
African People & Wildlife (APW) works to ensure a future where humans and wildlife thrive side by side. APW partners with communities to create effective, sustainable solutions that improve the lives of rural Africans while protecting the natural world.
Big Life Foundation – Greater Amboseli Ecosystem
Big Life Foundation has been operating in the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem for nearly 30 years. Through its programmes, Big Life has been able to protect wildlife, such as their world-famous elephant population, and their habitats from exploitation.
Bongo Surveillance Project – Aberdare National Park & Maasai Mau Forest
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Communities for Red Colobus (C4RC)
The C4RC ranger team protects the largest remaining population of the endangered Temminck’s red colobus monkeys in The Gambia through the training and empowerment of local people as conservation leaders and the development of livelihood projects.
Conservation and Wildlife Fund
Conservation & Wildlife Fund (CWF) works with state institutions and other conservation organisations to enable communities and wildlife to thrive in the region around Hwange National Park.
Conservation Lower Zambezi – Lower Zambezi National Park
Conservation Lower Zambezi is a non-governmental organisation committed to the conservation of wildlife and the environment in the Lower Zambezi, Zambia. CLZ has grown to focus on three main pillars of support: Wildlife Protection, Environmental Education and Community Empowerment.
Conservation South Luangwa – South Luangwa National Park
CSL works with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) in protected area management across the South Luangwa Valley, Zambia. CSL practises a multi-faceted approach to wildlife resource management and protection.
Conservation Through Public Health – Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) is a grassroots NGO and nonprofit in Uganda, established in 2003, which promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people, gorillas and other wildlife to coexist through improving their health and livelihoods.
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund – Nkuba Conservation Area
Founded by Dian Fossey in 1967, the Fossey Fund is the largest organisation dedicated to the conservation of gorillas. In Rwanda, we protect and study mountain gorillas and their habitat. We also work to protect the critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas of the DRC.
Frankfurt Zoological Society – Nsumbu National Park
Nsumbu Tanganyika Conservation Programme is a partnership between Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife. It was established in 2017 to secure and recover Nsumbu National Park and surrounding areas.
Frankfurt Zoological Society – North Luangwa Ecosystem
Since 1986, the North Luangwa Conservation Programme has grown into one of the most comprehensive and successful protected area conservation initiatives on the continent. NLCP’s operational area covers >22,000 km2 of the greater North Luangwa Ecosystem.
Game Rangers Association of Africa
Founded in 1970, the Game Rangers’ Association of Africa (GRAA) is a registered non-profit organisation which is the oldest, largest and most representative ranger association in Africa, with over 1800 members registered in over 26 countries.
Game Rangers International – Greater Kafue Ecosystem & Rufunsa Game Management Area
Game Rangers International (GRI) is a non-profit organisation established in Zambia in 2008. GRI works in close partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) to empower Rangers and Local Communities to conserve nature.
Honeyguide Foundation – Makame Wildlife Management Area
Honeyguide empowers communities by building up their in-house capabilities to run Wildlife Management Areas as community-protected areas in an effort to achieve sustainability, putting local communities in the driver’s seat of conservation.
Honeyguide Foundation – Manyara Ranch
Honeyguide empowers communities by building up their in-house capabilities to run Wildlife Management Areas as community-protected areas in an effort to achieve sustainability, putting local communities in the driver’s seat of conservation.
Honeyguide Foundation – Randilen Wildlife Management Area
Honeyguide empowers communities by building up their in-house capabilities to run Wildlife Management Areas as community-protected areas in an effort to achieve sustainability, putting local communities in the driver’s seat of conservation.
IMPACT Madagascar – Mahajeby Forests and Wetlands
IMPACT Madagascar was founded in 2014. Our small team has been working with local communities to alleviate poverty and provide achievable and sustainable environmental protection using a holistic approach.
Kissama Foundation – Luando Strict Nature Reserve
Kissama Foundation is an Angolan NGO established in 1996 focusing on the protection and conservation of biodiversity in Angola. FK develops projects for the study and conservation of flagship species such as the giant sable antelope, marine turtles and forest elephants.
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Man & Biosphere Reserve, and IUCN Protected and Conserved Green List Area that works as a catalyst for the conservation of wildlife and its habitat across northern Kenya.
Lion Landscapes – Borana, Karisia Walking Safaris, Loisaba, Mpala RC, Mugie Ranch & Ol Maisor Farm
Lion Rangers mitigate human-carnivore conflict through monitoring and protecting lions and other wildlife. Our mission is to make large carnivore conservation valuable to local and global communities.
Luwire Wildlife Conservancy
Luwire Wildlife Conservancy is located in the Niassa Special Reserve in northern Mozambique. We seek practical and robust solutions to the challenges of conservation at scale and long term financial and physical security.
Mount Kenya Trust – Mount Kenya National Park
The Mount Kenya Trust (MKT) has been working for over 20 years with local people, government agencies and development partners to conserve the unique natural resources of Africa’s second-highest mountain.
Musekese Conservation – Musekese-Lumbeya-Kafue National Park
Musekese Conservation is a Zambian organisation working with the Department of National Parks & Wildlife in the Kafue National Park. The project’s primary focus is capacity building for effective conservation outcomes.
Northern Rangelands Trust – Northern Rangeland Trust Conservancies
The Northern Rangelands Trust is a membership organisation owned and led by the 43 community conservancies it serves in northern and coastal Kenya. It was established as a shared resource to help build and develop community conservancies.
Northern Tuli Game Reserve
The Northern Tuli Game Reserve is situated in the most eastern corner of Botswana with South Africa bordering the reserve in the south and Zimbabwe in the north and is home to the largest elephant herds on private land in southern Africa.
Painted Dog Conservation – Hwange National Park Buffer Zone
Painted Dog Conservation is a non-profit organisation in Zimbabwe committed to creating an environment where painted dogs can thrive. Our Anti-poaching Units carry out patrols daily throughout the Gwayi Conservancy and buffer zones surrounding Hwange National Park.
Project Rhino – KwaZulu-Natal
Project Rhino is an association of like-minded organisations, facilitating rhino conservation interventions aimed at eliminating rhino poaching and securing the white and black rhino populations of KwaZulu-Natal.
Save the Rhino Trust – Kunene Region
Save the Rhino Trust is mandated by the Government for the monitoring, research and protection of black rhinos in Namibia. We employ 45 staff of which 95% are from local communities, and support over 60 Conservancy Rhino Rangers to conduct rhino monitoring.
SORALO – Southern Rift Association of Land Owners
SORALO is a community-led association of the Maasai landowners of Kenya’s South Rift, governed by a board of locally elected Maasai leaders from its constituent communities. It was founded to keep this important territory healthy and connected for both the people and wildlife.
Southern African Wildlife College – Greater Kruger Area
The Southern African Wildlife College is an accredited private, independent non-profit higher education and training institution specialising in conservation education, training and skills development.
Transfrontier Africa – Olifants West Nature Reserve and Grietjie Nature Reserve
Transfrontier Africa NPC was founded in 2007 and is based in the Associated Private Nature Reserves that form a part of the Greater Kruger National Park. Our focus primarily is on ecological research and protected area management.
Tsavo Trust – Tsavo Conservation Area
Tsavo Trust is a field-based organisation seeking to secure and protect Kenya’s Tsavo Conservation Area (TCA). At TT’s core is the protection of iconic species in the TCA. Their flagship programme is the identification and monitoring of Big Tuskers in the ecosystem.
Uganda Conservation Foundation – Murchison Falls National Park
UCF is a UK registered charity with an operating arm in Uganda. Projects include the Recovery of QE, MFs and the Kidepo / Kenya transboundary programme. UCF also runs the Uganda Carnivore & Scavenger programme, and the Technology in Conservation project.
Wild Chimpanzee Foundation – Taï National Park
The Wild Chimpanzee Foundation’s mission is to enhance the survival of the remaining wild chimpanzee populations and their habitat, saving the behavioural diversity of this fascinating species. It operates in Côte d'Ivoire around the Taï National Park.
Wildlife ACT – Hluhluwe – iMfolozi Park
Wildlife ACT runs sustainable, long-term monitoring and conservation projects. Our aim is to develop and implement innovative, ground based and sustainable conservation models that save our wildlife, protect our wilderness, and benefit our local communities.
Wildlife Action Group – Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpement Forest Reserves
Wildlife Action Group is a non-profit, Malawian-registered NGO which works to protect, preserve and restore two forest reserves and the wildlife that lives there for future generations of Malawians.
Wildlife Conservation Society – Yankari Game Reserve
The Wildlife Conservation Society is an American non-profit international conservation NGO that works to protect wildlife and wild places in over 50 countries as well as many oceans. In Nigeria, WCS provides support to the Bauchi State government at Yankari Game Reserve.
Zambeze Delta Conservation – Coutada 11
Zambeze Delta Conservation works to protect Mozambique's Coutada 11 ecosystem, which is a 200,000 hectare safari block situated in central coastal Mozambique, and support an estimated 200 livelihoods.
