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© Pete McBrideOver just 14 years, Majete Wildlife Reserve in Malawi has transformed to a productive and flourishing haven for Africa’s most iconic wildlife, generating revenue and benefits for local communities.
© Andrew MacDonaldWith 10,000 people living within the National Park, Liuwa is a living example of how people and wildlife can co-exist and benefit in a shared landscape. Each year, this 3,660 km2 park hosts the second largest wildebeest migration on the continent – without fanfare, this is one of the most glorious spectacles on the planet.
© Marcus WestbergGaramba National Park is situated in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) bordering South Sudan. This stunning landscape, however, is often referred to as ground zero in the elephant poaching wars in Africa. Poaching of elephants was down 50 percent in 2017 for the first time in years.
© Mana MeadowsBangweulu means ‘where water meets the sky’ – which is a perfect description for these globally important and stunning wetlands. This park is unique in that it is a community-owned protected wetland, home to 50,000 people and it is positioned to become a leading example of community-driven conservation on the continent
© Scott RamsayCovering an expansive 13,500 km2 area, Odzala lies in
the heart of the Congo Basin. It is the second largest rainforest in the world, spanning more than two million square kilometres across six countries and accounting for 18 percent of the world’s remaining rainforest.
© Marcus WestbergZakouma’ s elephants were on the increase in 2017 for the first time in over a decade. The story of Zakouma is of a park rising from the ashes and becoming an unlikely tale of redemption, for people and animals alike.
© Gael vande WegheAkagera is almost unrecognisable today compared to just 20 years ago when it was on the verge of being lost forever. After years of preparation, 2017 saw the historic return of 18 Eastern black rhinos, not just to Akagera but to all of Rwanda after a 10-year absence
© Evelyne MalflietNestled within the eastern part of the Central African Republic (CAR) in a war-torn region plagued by instability and deadly ethnic violence, lies a wildlife refuge called Chinko. A humanitarian crisis developed in 2017 when more than 380 Internally Displaced People fled to Chinko – the only safe area – to prevent near-certain death, and were protected by the park
and our rangers.
© Frank WeitzerLiwonde was at the epicentre of one of the largest elephant translocations
in history, through which a total of 336 elephants were relocated to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, reducing pressure on Liwonde’s natural habitats while helping to solve the deadly conflict situation. Since 2015, over
31,000 snares have been removed from this 548 km2 park, and poaching is now under control.
© Frank WeitzerNkhotakota Wildlife Reserve has had a difficult past. Decades of poaching and lawlessness saw a previously productive 1,800 km2 reserve with 1,500 elephants in the 1990’s reduced to fewer than 100 individuals. Upon assuming management in 2015, we immediately began preparing Nkhotakota for one of the world’s largest wildlife translocations. By August 2017, over a two-year period, the park received almost 500 elephants and 2,000 other animals.
© Jonas vande Voorde
Pendjari National Park is one of the most recent parks and the first within West Africa to fall under our management. Pendjari which is situated in the northwest of Benin and measures 4,800 km2. It is an anchoring part of the transnational W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) complex, spanning a vast 35,000 km2 across three countries: Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. It is the biggest remaining intact ecosystem in the whole of West Africa and the last refuge for the region’s largest remaining population of elephant and the critically endangered West African lion.