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Thoughts of the year
Tusk advances innovation in African conservation. We empower local In 2016 we worked with people from around the world to achieve our communities and connect global partners to protect Africa’s unique mission. Here’s what they had to say: wildlife and natural habitats.
Africa is in the When I was born “frontline of conservation. “there were one million Without conservation intervention The Tusk Awards In Africa people are elephants roaming Africa. right now, the chance of seeing vulture “shine a spotlight on the very getting killed in the name By the time my daughter extinctions in our lifetime is a people, places and issues of conservation. It’s hard, Charlotte was born, the very real possibility. that deserve it the most. it’s tough and the people who do it are numbers of savannah elephants had Kerri Wolter Founder, Vulture Programme Kate Silverton true heroes and heroines. What they are crashed to just 350,000. And at the current BBC Presenter and Journalist protecting is one of the great treasures of pace of illegal poaching, when Charlotte the world. turns 25 the African elephant will be gone from the wild. Sir David Attenborough Broadcaster My dream is that one HRH The Duke of Cambridge KG, KT “of my boys becomes a I do not wish to be part ranger and continues to “of a generation who knew protect the giant sable. what was happening and yet did nothing. I believe that education creates a Manuel Sacaia 2016 Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award Winner Dr Haruhisa Handa greater sense of knowledge about The children are asking for help. Founder, ISPS Handa and Patron of Tusk ourselves, our society and even our For Africa’s future to be sustainable, they collective role as mankind.
say that more people should have access Faith Riunga Head of Lewa Education Programme to quality environmental education that inspires them to care. The loss of one goat is nothing Without wildlife you are the poorest person Lesley Boggs Founder, Coaching for Conservation compared to what the (painted) dogs in the world; I will be proud of the fact that do for our children. I am the one who started conservation and Having the cranes it’s because of me this wildlife is here. Painted Dog Conservation “disappear means there Lparichoi Hargura Grevy’s Zebra Trust is something wrong, a With the Illegal Wildlife balance that has not been “Trade Conference returning maintained. Conservation is to London in 2018, the gaze about saving humans as well. If we protect of the international The marching tide of the planet’s Winning the Tusk Award animals in their habitats, we are protecting community will be firmly ever-increasing human population “has been a huge privilege, ourselves. If we fail, we are endangering our upon us once again. We must take action is fast presenting Governments and and honour, and my children. to prove to the world that we are willing and conservationists with the massive challenge greatest achievement to Olivier Nsengimana able to lead on this issue as we have done of reconciling human needs with those of date. Founder, Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association before. the natural world. Cathy Dreyer 2016 Tusk Award for Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP Charlie Mayhew MBE, CEO Tusk Trust Conservation in Africa, Winner Former UK Secretary of State for Environment
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Thoughts of the year 2 – 3 Welcome to the 2017 edition of Tusk is much to celebrate but there will be Talk. This annual publication, which huge questions to address on how this we have produced for more than growth can be achieved while protecting Welcome 5 two decades, captures the scale and the wildlife and habitats of the continent. diversity of the projects supported and Tusk wants to play a part in this debate as initiated by Tusk. communities, business, political leaders Update 6 – 7 and conservationists try to navigate this At a time when much of what we do in the challenging journey. charity is shared online, we have sometimes In December 2016, the world of African Tusk’s approach to conservation 8 – 15 questioned the commitment to print. But conservation received an unexpected piece every year the positive feedback and of good news. The Chinese government Silent Extinction 16 – 29 demand for Tusk Talk continues to grow. announced a ban on the trade of ivory and As we travel across Africa we often find its intention to close down the domestic copies, and earlier editions, prominently ivory trade in China. It was a hugely Time for change 30 – 35 displayed at our projects, in lodges or in welcome and significant step. Unless the offices of sponsors. Thank you for your the demand for ivory can ultimately be support and loyal reading! stemmed, no amount of protection against Tusk Conservation Awards 2016 36 – 43 It is again a very busy time for Tusk. Our poaching will suffice. It is hoped that this battle against the Illegal Wildlife Trade, the bold move by China will encourage other daily fight against poachers and the quest nations, particularly in Asia, to follow their Reaching the next generation 44 – 49 to safeguard the habitats and environments lead. We will watch how China makes good of Africa is a seemingly endless task. As on this pledge, but it must mean good news trustees of the charity, we often try to for Africa. Last year’s events 50 – 51 measure our impact and reflect on the In October 2017, Tusk will be hosting progress we’re making. its first ever ‘Tusk Symposium’, bringing Sometimes, when we’re faced with a together our project partners from across Join us for 2017 52 – 53 particular crisis or poachers have succeeded the continent. Meeting in Cape Town, this where we’ve failed, it can become will be a unique event where some of the How Tusk makes a difference 54 – 55 disheartening work. Yet it’s precisely at best conservationists and project leaders these moments that the value and staying will be able to share their knowledge and power of Tusk is most acutely felt. expertise with each other. We have learned Thank you 56 Tusk now supports eighty conservation so much over the years and this will enable projects across the continent of Africa. us to share our hard won best practice We’ve been investing in some of these across the community of Tusk partners and projects for more than twenty-five years. projects. The agility of our interventions and ability to The trustees of Tusk are hugely grateful PHOTOGRAPHY respond with haste where the need arises, to the small and dedicated staff of the is matched by our steadfast commitment charity who enable us to punch above our Ami Vitale, Big Life Foundation, Blue Ventures / Frances to long-term sustainable conservations weight every year and run our offices in the Humber, C3 Madagascar, Chimpanzee Conservation Centre, projects. This continues to be the way we UK, United States and East Africa. They are Coaching for Conservation, Conservation Lower Zambezi, want to deliver value and impact. very special people. But Tusk only functions Cheetah Conservation Fund, David Yarrow, GETTY Images, Nothing stands still and particularly in because of the support and commitment of Grevy’s Zebra Trust, IMPACT Madagascar, Africa, everything seems to be changing. the many hundreds of individual donors and Jeffrey Barbee, Jeremy Goss, Jo and Inge Bathmann, The continent of Africa is changing before companies who make our work possible. Juliet King, Kissama Foundation, Lamu Marine Conservation our eyes. For more than a quarter of a century Tusk Trust, Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, Loango Gorilla Project, It will soon have the youngest population has benefited from this generosity. MMWCA, Mokolodi Nature Reserve, Mountain Bongo on the planet. Africa’s population is set to We can’t thank you enough. ● Surveillance Project, Nick Dyer, PACE, Painted Dog double to 2.4 billion by 2050. While many Conservation, Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, challenges persist, experts also predict Saruni Rhino, Sherry McKelvie, Tusk Conservation Awards, that Africa is set to transform with growing STEPHEN WATSON UCF/ Nick Wilcox-Brown, Uganda Conservation Foundation, economies and rapid GDP growth. There Chairman of Tusk Trust VulPro, Sarah Watson, Wilderness Foundation
FRONT & BACK COVER Global Growth £8,892,321 ‘Giraffe City’ by David Yarrow £6,279,614 ● A long-term supporter of Tusk, David very generously donates a percentage of his art sales to the charity. ● For more information please visit £2,694,590 www.davidyarrow.photography/gallery/wildlife £1,119,627 ● £64,381 £401,164 ● ● INSIDE FRONT COVER ● 1992 1999 2005 2011 2015 2016 ‘Elephant Family’ by Jeremy Goss Gross revenue in the UK rose by 9% to £4.64m. UK expenditure on conservation programmes amounted to £3.58m with a further £374,403 awaiting distribution to projects. This represents 83% of gross profit after EDITOR deduction of direct event costs. Tusk USA Inc’s total income amounted to $5.85m with $5.15m (87.5%) invested towards our programmes. *AT TIME OF GOING TO PRESS Sarah Watson
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2016 was another excellent year both in terms of our financial results and the positive conservation impact that we continue to have in the field and beyond.
Over the last three years we have focused a great deal of resource and attention on tackling the illegal wildlife trade. Aside from deploying the proverbial ‘boots on the ground’, Tusk has, with the unstinting support of our Royal Patron, devoted much effort to highlighting the plight of those species being exploited by poachers and criminal syndicates to meet the demand from consumers predominantly in the Far East. Our ‘Time For Change’ event broadcast live across the world by satellite from The View From The Shard (at the top of Europe’s tallest building) had a huge impact attracting global media coverage and Prince William’s words proving to be pivotal on the eve of the CITES conference in Johannesburg. We were particularly grateful to ISPS Handa, the Japanese Foundation, who generously sponsored this eye-catching venture with Land Rover and Avios. As a follow up, I was delighted to be invited to accompany Prince William to Vietnam in November for the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, as he sought to press home the urgency with which we need international governments to halt the trade of ivory, rhino horn, pangolin and other wildlife products. It is easy to become despondent in the face of some the challenges that Africa’s wildlife faces. The statistics often seem so stacked against us. However last year, Tusk’s investment into our programmes reached new heights. There is hope. Indeed, you only have to look at the achievement that so many of our project partners are delivering — many of which are outlined within this edition of Tusk Talk. At the sharp-end of the poaching crisis, we are administering two major IWT Challenge Fund grants on behalf of the UK Government. One is funding specialist training in counter-poaching to rangers across the continent, where it is already producing dramatic results in reducing poaching. The second grant is demonstrating how conservation can be a powerful tool to improve rural livelihoods in programmes have also reached over natural heritage — its wildlife, wilderness community, that preserving Africa’s natural mantra is to find better solutions that can in September 2016. Both Samantha and Uganda. 500,000 students. I am very proud that and forests — is coming under increasing heritage is as much an economic imperative have a lasting effect. Scale them faster for Pierre-Andre have been long serving and There is also some remarkable work Tusk invests in the future of Africa in such a pressure from the rapidly expanding human as it is for the well being of the planet and maximum impact, and work together, as an loyal members of our UK Board and we are being undertaken in the field of education, positive way. population as it competes for land and mankind. empowered movement of donors, partners delighted that they have agreed to remain engaging the next generation and their We have always prided ourselves on space. Sadly it is man who presents the The natural world can represent positive and local communities. And, as ever, with all active within the Tusk ‘family’ by continuing families simultaneously. We are investing the excellence that is represented by our single biggest threat to Africa’s wildlife. We development, create jobs, and help alleviate of this we need your continued support. to act as ambassadors of the charity. ● in the infra-structure of schools adjacent portfolio of projects. We intend to continue need to turn ourselves from the problem into poverty. And any suggestion that preserving I would like to pay huge tribute to the to conservation areas and we continue to to be an effective catalyst for conservation, the solution. We have to win the argument wildlife just represents a luxury for the selfless contribution made by our retiring support some truly dynamic environmental an accelerator for innovation and an with local and national Governments, developed world to enjoy is neither right nor Trustees, Pierre-Andre Mourgue d’Algue centres hosting thousands of children organisation that nurtures projects and amongst the rural communities (often helpful. and Dr Samantha Corsellis, who were both each year on residential courses. Our own provides long term support. struggling to live alongside wildlife), the The crisis facing Africa’s wildlife is severe, required to step down by rotation according CHARLIE MAYHEW MBE PACE environmental films and education We are acutely aware that Africa’s urban population as well as the business vast and urgent. As we look forward, Tusk’s to our governance protocols at the AGM CEO, Tusk Trust
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Tusk’s approach to conservation
Tusk’s vision is an Africa in which people and By focusing on and facilitating sustainable wildlife co-exist and thrive. We believe in the solutions for conservation, we know that together inherent value of wildlife while understanding that with our supporters and partner projects, we can sustainable conservation requires local solutions have a real and lasting impact. and engagement.
MALI ● Tusk believes that people are a critical Tusk’s partnership model, working with needed most and have the greatest impact. part of the equation and our investments grassroots organisations in Africa, brings a As a connector and an umbrella keep people and wildlife at the centre of field perspective to our decision-making. organisation, Tusk is in a unique position to the solution. This, combined with over a quarter century leverage information and maximise of experience gives Tusk the ability to find impact. By connecting innovative people Whether our programmes support patterns of success. from disparate parts of Africa to work on a environmental education, create eco-friendly We take lessons learned, share results shared mission to protect wildlife, Tusk acts SIERRA LEONE ● employment opportunities or mitigate and connect conservation initiatives across as an accelerator for conservation efforts. human-wildlife conflict, our support is based the continent. By positioning programmes In the following pages we look at twenty ● on the understanding that sustainable and needs within the larger conservation of our 80 project partners across 21 NIGERIA conservation is only possible if humans and landscape and identifying solutions we are African countries — all of which are listed on wildlife canco-exist and thrive together. able to invest donor funds where they are page 15. GABON ● ● KENYA
DRC ● ● TANZANIA
ZIMBABWE DRC GABON NIGERIA Malilangwe Trust Walikale Loango Gorilla Project Yankari Game Reserve
With 35% of Zimbabwe’s 70,000 hectares of forest Western gorilla Elephant guardians white rhino the reserve is under conservation tourism began in June act as the first line of is overstocked and the management by the 2016 supporting 34 defence for farmers population showing signs of stress. project, patrolled by 33 rangers. A Gabonese employees, their families and around Yankari to aid in deflecting ‘Rhino’s without Borders’ have approached census of one sector of Walikale found communities. The groups were located elephants in order to prevent or ● Malilangwe to move 24 white rhino to nineteen gorilla families (168 adults and on 80% of the days teams were in the minimise damage to crops. In the first Botswana. 13 juveniles). Approximately 1,500 people field. The habituated gorilla group grew three months of 2017 47 camping patrols Funding is available for the translocation benefitted from regular educational to 16 individuals, as two babies were were completed by the rangers. and in two years time there will be the same workshops. born. Minimal illegal activities were detected Thirty people were arrested for various number of rhino to translocate elsewhere Local communities are beginning to in the study area (one case in 2016). offences (18 hunters and 12 grazers). once there are more recipient areas with the understand the importance of the forest for Twenty-two remotely triggered camera Importantly no elephant carcass were found appropriate habitat and security levels. survival, not only as a food source, but also traps are used for monitoring gorillas and and no elephant poachers were arrested. ZIMBABWE as critical in the ecological balance around other large mammals. the reserve.
KENYA TANZANIA MALI TANZANIA SIERRA LEONE DRC Tsavo Trust Serengeti Health Initiative Mali Elephant Project Ruaha Carnivore Project Tacugama Okapi Conservation Project
Satao 2, a ‘Big Tusker’ As human populations In 2016 a new initiative Fortified livestock Four National Park In 2016 over 500 patrols killed by poachers in expand and pristine to create women’s enclosures using wire Forest Guards joined the were conducted by January, was found ecosystems become associations to generate and metal poles Tacugama Patrol Team in Congo national rangers with the ivory intact and recovered. The less isolated, the threat of disease income from the sustainable harvest of have proven to reduce human wildlife January. After an initial training on GPS and supported by OCP covering 15,000km Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) acted swiftly transmission between domestic non-timber forest products, wild foods, conflict between the barabaig tribe and data collection, the team honed their skills in the Reserve, removing over 2,156 and with support from Tsavo Trust the gang animals, wildlife and humans medicines and dry season livestock lion. The predator-proofing of the bomas in the field which resulted in a much more snares, arresting 113 poachers and was apprehended. increases. In 2016 SHI vaccinated 46,893 fodder was started. Women influence has many positive impacts — they rapid response to the incidents reported. evacuating illegal miners. During the first quarter of the year the dogs across 231 villages surrounding the traditionally male-led management reduce the negative economic impacts The teams have arrested some people The rangers destroyed 70 poaching Tusk funded Tembo ranger team recovered Serengeti National Park and facilitated the structures and can achieve many things that carnivores have on local people and that intended to clear the forest and the and mining camps, confiscated equipment 130 wire snares for small and medium game vaccination of 83,000 more through vaccine including improving aspects of security and they substantially reduce the likelihood of guards also destroyed two charcoal pits. and escorted thousands of miners out of and over 100kg of various bushmeat during donations. fostering social cohesion. retaliatory killing of carnivores. the reserve which had the extra benefit of joint KWS patrols. This benefitted 560,000 people and This is especially important in the remote Seventy-five bomas were built in 2016 reducing the demand for hunting bushmeat children. There are now almost 200 north of the elephant range where worst using Tusk funds. to feed the miners in the reserve. African wild dogs living and breeding in the massacres have occurred. Serengeti.
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Measuring catch in Comoros African wild dog pack Black Mambas on patrol Tracking released chimpanzees
Blue Ventures Botswana Predator Black Mamba Chimpanzee FRANCES HUMBER PhD Conservation Trust CRAIG SPENCER Conservation Centre Conservation Director Founder/Manager TICO McNUTT PhD ESTELLE RABALLAND Director Founder
Effective management of to southwest Madagascar in The Botswana Predator populations and, consequently, In 2016, we completed the There are a total of 900 young Tusk has supported our baboons and sadly one was coastal resources and local 2017, where Comorian fishers Conservation Trust (BPCT) to biodiversity and broad training and integration children that are educated by wild-release of previously killed. We are happy that she’d fisheries requires data. will witness first-hand the has been operating since landscape connectivity. In 2016 of the new Maseke Black the Black Mambas Bush Babies orphaned chimpanzees for had the opportunity to live in Very little information on progress made by communities 1989 in Northern Botswana, BPCT continued its mission Mamba team. This team programme now. The annual years and is a key partner for the forest for eight years, having fisheries or marine habitats over more than a decade of in and around Moremi Game to develop effective tools for patrols the Maseke tribal bush camps that we host at the this programme. initially been orphaned and exists in the Comoros, so local management. Reserve in the Okavango reducing such human-wildlife lands that are directly Balule Nature Reserve, part of The Chimpanzee hand-reared by the CCC team. the collection of a full year’s Getting activities started Delta, an IUCN World conflict, making progress with adjacent to the West of the the Greater Kruger Park, were Conservation Centre (CCC) Our main success at the worth of key fisheries data, with a very small team was Heritage Site. two of our flagship projects: the Kruger NationalPark. a huge success. Sixty children release programme is a release site is the second the first phase of our project challenging. However, we This region represents the Bioboundary Research Project No border exists between that showed the most promise conservation tool that helps generation of chimpanzees! to facilitate community-led have built up a core team by core of the largest remaining and the recent iCow project the parkand this land, and interest in the Bush Babies protect the Haut Niger National We now have four offspring, marine conservation, is a recruiting a Comorian marine population of endangered (for more information visit www. and poachers often hide programme were rewarded with Park, a hotspot for the Guinean ranging between 1 and 4 years major step forward, and a ecologist and providing training African wild dogs and African bpctrust.org). oraccess the park through several nights in the Park. chimpanzee but also large old. The success of the release first for the Comoros. for him via a six week training elephants, as well as Africa’s With Tusk support and this area. Duringroutine In the new year, we face mammals including some rare programme relies on the survival This information, collected course with Blue Ventures in other large carnivores. It is part decades of experience, cutting- patrols, the Mambas have challenges that are new to us. lions. Our main challenge in of this second generation and through working closely with Madagascar, and training five of an international network of edge peer-reviewed science reportednumerous incursions The Greater Kruger Park has 2016 for the release programme we hope these babies will grow local fishers, will form the local fisheries technicians. national parks, game reserves and a track record of applying by rhino-poachersand snare- expanded its boundaries to was the pressure exacted on into successful wild adults. basis of community decision- We plan to recruit four more and wildlife management areas, science while working with poachers. Their role in the include old farms in the South, the chimpanzees by a troop of CCC’s main goal for 2017 is making to design measures to technicians very shortly and feel interconnected in a mosaic of rural communities to develop earlydetection of poaching as well as tribal lands in the over one-hundred wild baboons to keep monitoring this group safeguard their local fisheries we have solid foundations in land uses including scattered innovative tools to mitigate threats and as adeterrent to North. We have the challenge that crossed into the chimp of released chimps, whilst and marine environment. place now on which to develop communities and their livestock. human-wildlife conflict, BPCT poachers has paid off. of ensuring that these areas territory. decreasing the contact we have To kickstart this process and this project. Conflict between people is uniquely placed to continue The Black Mambas are protected and the animals The chimps usually avoid with them so they can one day generate new ideas, we have and predators now represents to meet the conservation have adopted a total of 10 that choose to live there are them but last summer two be completely wild. planned two learning exchanges the largest threat to surviving challenges in 2017. primary schools in the tribal protected. We continue to go females were caught by the free-roaming predator communities of Maseke, from strength to strength with Mashishimale and Makushane. your help.
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IMPACT-tree planting day Members of the women’s beading group Elephant keeper with one of the rescued baby elephants Tusk-funded BushCat aircraft
IMPACT Madagascar Maasai Mara Wildlife Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Wilderness Foundation JOSIA RAZAFINDRAMANANA Conservancies Association KATIE ROWE CHRISTINE ROETS Founder Manager Operations Manager NOAH SITATI Executive Director
Madagascar is a unique and Tusk’s PACE project was Maasai Mara Wildlife conservancies. Landowners The first community-owned Due to the drought in Northern Wilderness Foundation the air support capacity of beautiful country whose launched in 2016, in the six Conservancies Association migrated with livestock in search and managed elephant Kenya elephants have to Africa’s Forever Wild Wilderness Foundation Africa, remote location and isolated conservation sites but also (MMWCA), a membership of pasture and water making it sanctuary in East Africa share water with pastoral Rhino Protection Initiative whereby more protected areas population presents a set with other organisations and organisation working in the difficult to implement activities was officially opened by the communities. During the dry primarily provides logistical can be assisted with aerial of unique challenges for universities. In 2017, the aim Greater Mara ecosystem that required their participation. Samburu County Governor, season, elephant calves often and operational support support for the management conservation. is to monitor the impact of to ensure conservancies in The plan for 2017 includes H.E Moses Lenolkulal, on the fall into wells dug into river beds, for conservation and law and protection of the rhino IMPACT Madagascar’s goal PACE to understand how the environs are effectively the continued development of 20th August 2016. and their mothers are unable enforcement agencies populations. is to protect and conserve the people use the knowledge and and sustainably conserving management plans for the Mara Situated in the Namunyak to pull them out. Unfortunately, responsible for rhino security In 2017 more combined country’s unique biodiversity solution-based ideas to solve biodiversity. North Lemek, Olaro-Motorogi Wildlife Conservancy, this is how the majority of the in South Africa. intelligence-driven operations while improving the lives of environmental problems in their Working with over 45 tourism and Olkinyei conservancies, an elephant heartland in elephant calves come to be at Other activities include the with the BushCat aircraft, the its people. The project works villages and areas. partners and with a membership funded by Tusk. Over 50,00 North Kenya, the project’s the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary. coordination of anti-poaching Bat Hawk aircraft, the anti- with the Malagasy people Successes will be measured of 14 conservancies, over hectares of land is being main objective is to reunite We currently have twelve training, aerial assistance, poaching patrol vehicle and in six key conservation sites by the reduction of threats to 140,000 ha of land has secured and 1,795 landowners abandoned elephant calves elephants in the Sanctuary vehicle support, intelligence anti-poaching units from rhino to provide achievable and the forest areas, logging and been secured for wildlife are benefitting from these with their mothers and herds. and, together with KWS, we gathering and specialist reserves are planned. The aim maintainable solutions to the illegal hunting of wildlife, and a conservation. conservancies. Consultative In 2016, through a well- plan to return these elephants support, and a rhino horn is for the BushCat to continue problems of deforestation, progressive change of behaviour Last year, the main meetings with landowners’ have coordinated approach between to their home range where demand reduction campaign in supporting the reserves with pollution, and poverty through towards the environment, challenges faced include the been held and a core planning the conservancy’s air and they have every possibility of Vietnam. regards to species monitoring ecological conservation training assessed through the long dry spell that interfered team established to spearhead ground teams, combined with re-joining their family herds as 2016 marked the successful through telemetry tracking of and education. The idea is to participation in environmental with the established organised the process. an intimate knowledge of the soon as they are no longer milk expansion of the aerial support collared species, as well as develop conservation strategies and development activities. rotational grazing pattern herds’ movements, we reunited dependent. capability through the purchase searching for animals that have that work within the parameters and livestock grazing in the five calves with their mothers. of a BushCat light sport aircraft, not been located within the of daily life. which was jointly funded by agreed upon managed time by Tusk. This aircraft has increased Reserve staff.
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Desnaring a dog’s mouth Sera Community ranger tracking a rhino in the conservancy Tusk’s Project Partners
We partner with Africa’s leading and emerging conservationists to protect endangered species, reduce human-
wildlife conflict, find sustainable solutions 12 to preserve critical habitats and combat the global demand for illegal wildlife products.
7 AFRICA 16 14 6 African Parks 9 Anti-Poaching (IWT Challenge Fund) 3 19 PACE 8 5 Pride Alliance 15 4 Stop Ivory WildAid 18 Ol Pejeta Conservancy 1 ANGOLA Reteti Elephant Sanctuary Giant Sable Antelope Project 1 Sera Community Rhino Sanctuary 11 20 BOTSWANA 2 Space for Giants
Botswana Predator Conservation Trust The Maa Trust 21 10 13 Coaching for Conservation Tsavo Trust 2 Mokolodi Nature Reserve LIBERIA 9 CAMEROON 3 Fauna & Flora International Cross River Gorilla Conservation Project 17 MADAGASCAR 10 ERUDEF Blue Ventures DRC 4 C3 Madagascar Okapi Conservation Durrell Madagascar Pole Pole Foundation IMPACT Madagascar Virunga Foundation MALAWI TANZANIA Walikale Gorillla and Forest Conservation 11 18 Project Lilongwe Wildlife Trust Mkomazi National Park Ruaha Carnivore Project GABON 5 MALI 12 Serengeti Health Initiative Zambian Carnivore Sera Community Rhino Loango Gorilla Mali Elephant Project UGANDA 19 GHANA 6 NAMIBIA 13 Programme Sanctuary Conservation Through Public Health Rainforest Rescue Ghana AfriCat Foundation DR. MATTHEW BECKER SOPHIE HARRISON Cheetah Conservation Fund Countering Wildlife Crime CEO Northern Rangelands Trust Wulugu Project (IWT Challenge Fund) IRDNC GUINEA 7 Uganda Conservation Foundation Save the Rhino Trust Zambia’s Luangwa Valley and ground monitoring of wide- 2016 was an immense year species. Facilitated by Chimpanzee Conservation Centre ZAMBIA 20 is one of the few remaining ranging radio-collared packs, for the Sera Community the Northern Rangelands NIGERIA 14 KENYA 8 Conservation Lower Zambezi strongholds for endangered anti-snaring patrols directed at Rhino Sanctuary. In March Trust (NRT), the community Centre for Education, Research and African wild dogs, but a areas of high snaring risk for a female black rhino, gave opened the 54,000 hectare Big Life Foundation Conservation of Primates and Nature Conservation South Luangwa burgeoning commercial dogs, and a full-time Zambian birth to a healthy calf, and fenced sanctuary inside their Borana Conservancy (CERCOPAN) Landscape Connectivity at Kafue/ bushmeat trade utilising wildlife vet, Dr. Mwamba made history. conservancy after many years Ewaso Lions Yankari Game Reserve Kavango wire-snares seriously Sichande, who is able to This was the first black of hard work, substantial Galana Wildlife Conservancy Wildlife Crime Prevention Project threatens these dogs respond, dart and treat snared rhino to be born on community investment from Tusk and the RWANDA 15 Grevy’s Zebra Trust Zambia Primate Project through direct mortality in dogs. land in northern Kenya for over determined commitment by Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Zambian Carnivore Programme snares as by-catch, and from In addition we also expanded 25 years, and demonstrated Sera Community members. Lamu Marine Conservation Project Association depletion of their prey base. operations with the collaring of a the strength of the growing In February this year, Saruni, LEP – Lewa Education Programme ZIMBABWE 21 Nevertheless, Tusk’s large pack that ranges between community conservation a portfolio of luxury properties SIERRA LEONE 16 Lewa Communities Programme African Wildlife Conservation support of our collaborative South Luangwa and Luambe movement. The calf also in Kenya, opened Saruni Rhino Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary efforts with the Department of National Parks, a key linkage represents the community’s offering a unique walking safari Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Malilangwe Trust National Parks and Wildlife and area of very high risk for dogs hopes that the Sanctuary experience tracking black Local Ocean Trust SOUTH AFRICA 17 Painted Dog Conservation Conservation South Luangwa getting caught in snares. can nurture a viable breeding rhino on-foot, accompanied by Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Bateleurs Savé Valley Conservancy helped produce a record Our collaborative Tusk- population of black rhino; that an expert Saruni guide and a Association Black Mamba 170 dogs in 12 packs in our funded efforts in and around could eventually help repopulate highly-trained Sera Community Mara Elephant Project Great Fish River Nature Reserve intensive study area in 2016. South Luangwa show promise other community conservation Conservancy ranger. This Milgis Trust Save the Waterberg Rhino We employed an array of anti- for our plans to expand work in areas. responsible tourism venture snaring initiatives to accomplish 2017 to protect the valley’s wild The Sera community is will endeavour to educate and Mount Kenya Trust Singita Community Trust this including intensive aerial dog stronghold. the first conservancy in Africa encourage the further protection Mountain Bongo Surveillance Project Southern African Wildlife College to establish and operate a of the species for future Ngare Ndare Forest Trust VulPro sanctuary dedicated to the generations. NRT – Northern Rangelands Trust Wilderness Foundation conservation of this iconic ●
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Over the last forty years, the world’s wildlife believe that we are entering the sixth ‘Great poaching eras of the 70s and 80s, on the mega-fauna species such as undetected. A number of other population has decreased by more than half and Extinction’. According to the Center for Biological when the African elephant, rhino and the rhino and elephant many other species are facing a similar silent some of the planet’s most iconic species are on Diversity, “unlike past mass extinctions, caused by other keystone species were killed in species have been overlooked, and extinction including the mountain the brink of extinction. events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions and vast numbers as shown below. in very short time, their numbers bongo, cheetah and grey-crowned The world is currently losing species at a natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost At the beginning of this crisis have depleted extensively. crane. thousand times the natural rate and experts entirely caused by us — humans.” endangered species were the focus Most shocking of all was the for the Charity with funding provided announcement that the giraffe has The following pages show how for the purchase of an aircraft for been classified as vulnerable to Tusk is working with our project The accelerated rate of extinction is trade, rapid population growth, and value. But, biodiversity also plays anti-poaching work in Tanzania and extinction meaning that over three partners across Africa to reverse this jeopardising our planet’s biodiversity economic inequality, the destruction an important role in maintaining the a rescue mission to move wildlife in generations the population has frightening trend. � and Africa, which is home to some of of Africa’s natural resources has world’s ecological balance and is Zimbabwe within the first few years declined by more than 30%. the world’s most iconic species, has reached an unprecedented level. one of the Africa’s most important of operation. The world’s tallest land mammal much to lose. At Tusk, we believe that wildlife is economic resources. In 2016, it became apparent that has gone under the radar and their Fuelled by the illegal wildlife worth preserving for its own innate Tusk was formed in 1990 after the whilst the world has been focusing numbers have been plummeting
ELEPHANT BLACK RHINO LION GIRAFFE WILD DOG
2016 400,000 2016 2,700 2016 >25,000 2016 97,500 2016 6,600
1970 1,300,000 1970 65,000 1970 200,000+ 1970 163,000 1970 7,000
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−– –−− −– –−− SILENT SILENT EXTINCTION EXTINCTION Rothschild Giraffe— –– – Cape Vulture — –– – the birds. The work carried out by VulPro in partnership with the University of Pretoria spearheaded the banning of the production THE FORGOTTEN ONES of diclofenac in India and Pakistan and the Cape Vulture Approximately 4,000 replacement of it with the only known safe Murchison Falls National Park is host Vultures are the fastest declining bird breeding pairs left and 10,000 individuals non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) to 900 Rothschild giraffe, the largest species globally. Asia has lost 99.9% globally but already the species has veterinary drug, Meloxicam. They are population of the endangered species in of their vulture population and Africa is been classified as extinct in Namibia, continuing this campaign in Africa where the world. With only 1,200 remaining in currently facing a vulture crisis. Swaziland and Zimbabwe as it no longer diclofenac is still used. the wild every individual is important. breeds in these regions. Much maligned because of its association Reversing the decline In 2011, Tom Okello, the then newly with death, vultures are critical to the health Over the last nine years, VulPro has been appointed Chief Park Warden of Murchison of our ecosystem. By rapidly consuming extremely fortunate to have had the backing Falls faced an enormous task. The increase carcasses vultures help reduce the spread monitoring at feeding sites, both visually and of Tusk, a partnership which has grown in poaching pressure, through snares and of diseases and thus keep our environment with the use of camera-traps. Further afield into a formidable combination of strength, traps laid by bushmeat poachers was clean and healthy, which has a direct monitoring of the distribution, dispersal and commitment and financial support. The growing daily. The number of animals caught positive effect on every one of us, as well as foraging ranges of vultures is undertaken by aim of this partnership has been to halt the in snares was staggering, and it included our wildlife and livestock. the small team. This involves the tracking of decline of vultures by stabilising the breeding many giraffe that were trapped by the wires vultures using patagial (wing) tags and GSM/ colonies of both cliff and tree nesting which cut deep into their ankles. Many died. VulPro — Vulture Programme GPS devices and is not restricted to South vultures, rehabilitating and releasing vultures To counter this poaching onslaught Tom had VulPro, a Tusk-funded project in South Africa alone, but covers Botswana and to prevent further losses to the population, one working car and no veterinary response ABOVE UCF and UWA rangers on a desnaring patrol Africa, is actively working to reverse the Namibia too. Over and above researching captive breeding to support existing capability. decline across Africa through its role in their ranges, these tracking devices help dwindling populations, and educating the Having worked together in Queen and Punu Rii Ranger Posts were built by 24 hours. Before it took weeks, which was addressing and mitigating the threats identify ‘hot spot’ areas for powerline general public of all demographics and age Elizabeth National Park, Tom turned to the UCF. The first two were Marine Ranger always too late. vultures face, combating population and collisions, electrocutions and powerline groups about the importance of these very Uganda Conservation Foundation (UCF) Stations manned by newly trained rangers With the Rothschild giraffes safer, our individual vulture losses, and changing roosting spots so that they can be mitigated misunderstood and yet hugely important for help. Immediately the Recovery of and equipped with patrol boats to allow attention turned to a rash seen on around people’s negative perceptions. Although accordingly, before an incident occurs. and often overshadowed scavengers. Murchison Falls project was planned, which the marine teams to block poachers from 30% of the adult giraffes. Thanks to Busch the organisation is small, with only six staff We simply cannot afford to lose our included the protection and conservation landing their fishing boats and laying snares Gardens and the Wildlife Docs show on members, its spread and impact is far Asian Vulture Crisis vultures and the result will be catastrophic of the giraffes as a priority. Tusk and other along the 100 km shoreline. The Uganda ABC TV, UCF could afford to take samples reaching and they have spearheaded many The Asian Vulture Crisis saw the populations if we do. Without conservation intervention partners quickly supported the project. Wildlife Authority (UWA) then added the and analyse the rash and have now pioneering conservation strategies. of three vulture species plummet and right now, the chance of seeing vulture Ogello and Ayago Ranger Posts. ascertained that it is not life-threatening, and At the organisation’s base just outside their IUCN status being raised from not extinctions in our lifetime is a very real Recovery of Murchison Falls In the Delta region of Murchison the is in fact a small parasitic nematode, more Pretoria injured, grounded and disabled endangered to critically endangered in just possibility. � The response included the construction of impact was immediate. Some 23 metric usually found on cattle and buffalo. UCF vultures are taken to the VulPro Centre to ten years. Diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory ranger posts in key areas to block poachers tonnes of snares and wheel traps were are now following up research about the assess their condition, treat accordingly and drug routinely used in livestock, was the and sustain a long-term presence in the found, removed, and destroyed and used in ecology of the rash, and have started to trial release wherever possible. The follow-up route cause behind the massive die-off as it giraffe’s core habitats. Semanya, Kabim the foundations of the ranger posts and the potential treatments. monitoring is just as important and this was ingested by birds feeding on carcasses KERRI WOLTER UCF built Veterinary Laboratory! is done with tracking devices as well as and, although safe for cattle, was toxic to Founder of the Vulture Programme The number of animals, including giraffe Looking to the future found in traps dead or alive, dropped from Our job has not finished yet; the protection three a day, to three a month. and effectiveness of the law enforcement With the habitats safer and rangers capability to protect the giraffes needs to better trained, the UWA and UCF are be expanded, and better knowledge of confident the threat is now under control their seasonal movement and distribution and, due to the long-term nature of the patterns. investments, the future for the region and its With tourism, the highest earning sector wildlife is looking brighter. in Uganda’s GDP, the large-scale recovery of THE FORGOTTEN ONES Murchison Falls and elsewhere is the perfect Rothschild Giraffe Also known as the Veterinary Response Unit project to ensure that future generations Ugandan Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis UCF also helped UWA create a Veterinary see a real value in their wildlife and cultural rothschildi) is one of the giraffe species Response Unit, by providing a vehicle and heritage. categorised by IUCN as endangered, Analytics Lab, donating a dart gun and with an estimated population of less than accessories, and laboratory equipment. 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−– –−− −– –−− SILENT SILENT EXTINCTION EXTINCTION Cheetah — –– – predation rates. CCF has placed more than Sea Turtles — –– – 650 guarding dogs since the programme began, which are credited with saving hundreds of cheetah lives in Namibia but THE FORGOTTEN ONES further afield in Botswana, South Africa and Sea Turtles Kenyan waters are home A century ago, cheetahs numbered Tanzania. Much can be learned about the to five species of sea turtles: Green, more than 100,000 and were found To address misperceptions about condition of the planet’s environment Hawksbill, Olive Ridley, Leatherback across most of Africa and throughout predators and help foster an appreciation for by looking at sea turtles. They have and Loggerhead — all of which are Asia. the cheetah and all wildlife, CCF administers existed for over 100 million years, and Red Listed by the IUCN as critically an education programme, Future they travel continuously throughout the endangered, endangered or vulnerable. Today, the cheetah is Africa’s most Conservationists of Africa (FCA). Each year, world’s oceans. endangered big cat. Less than 7,100 CCF presents events in schools for young adult animals remain, occupying a mere learners throughout Namibia. This initiative Suddenly, however, they are struggling to turtle and eggs, degradation of turtle nesting fraction of their historic range. The species is of critical importance, as it exposes survive — largely because of the impact sites through illegal beach developments, is on a precipitous decline, threatened by the nation’s youth to the importance of people are having on the planet’s oceans and damage to foraging areas (coral human-wildlife conflict, habitat loss and maintaining healthy ecosystems and instils and beaches. Nearly all species of turtles reefs and sea-grass beds) from pollution, illegal wildlife trafficking. But solving the an appreciation for wildlife. are classified as endangered. Killed for their sedimentation and unsustainable fishing crisis involves addressing a complex web More than 450,000 students have eggs, meat, skin and shells, sea turtles practices. These direct threats result in of social, economic and environmental participated in FCA outreach programmes suffer from poaching and over-exploitation. part from a lack of understanding among problems and the people who share land since 1992. At the Centre, CCF hosts more They face habitat destruction and accidental stakeholders of the status of sea turtles with this iconic feline carnivore, as more than 200 students annually for immersive capture in fishing gear, plus climate change and the need for their conservation, as well than 75% of the remaining populations exist environmental experiences, workshops, and is having an impact on turtle nesting sites. as widespread poverty which drives local outside protected areas. team building exercises. The Lamu Archipelago on the north communities to overexploit both the turtles coast of Kenya is home to all five sea turtle and their habitat. Cheetah Conservation Fund ABOVE A school group visiting the CCF Education facility Illegal Wildlife Trade species: the leatherback and loggerhead Founded in 1990 by Dr Laurie Marker, the A lesser known threat to the cheetah that is turtles use the area as feeding grounds, Lamu Marine Conservation Trust Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is a CCF also maintains a sanctuary to care Education holds the key slowly gaining awareness is the illegal trade. and the green, hawksbill and Olive Ridley (LaMCoT) non-profit organisation and a global leader in for orphan or injured cheetahs; a Model In Namibia, livestock farmers have Cheetahs are often removed from the wild turtles as nesting sites. These species are all LaMCoT is a community-run initiative the research and conservation of cheetahs. Farm with related agricultural enterprises, traditionally viewed cheetahs as a species for their body parts or to be sold into the classified as either endangered or critically established to conserve the endangered CCF’s International Field Research and including a goat creamery for training that threatens their livelihoods. During exotic pet trade. endangered under the IUCN Red Data List sea turtles of the Lamu Archipelago. Thanks Education Centre in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, purposes; and a 4,000 hectare wildlife the 1970s and 1980s, Namibian farmers Since 2005, CCF has been monitoring and are listed under CITES Appendix 1. to a comprehensive education programme specialises in developing human-predator holding area, the Bellebeno Game Camp, removed hundreds of cheetahs from the illegal cheetah trafficking and organising Despite enjoying legal protection under the LaMCoT have converted the local fishermen conflict mitigation strategies and business used for soft-releasing cheetahs before landscape each year. confiscations of poached animals through Wildlife and Fisheries acts turtle populations from poachers to protectors, creating initiatives to enable humans and cheetah to re-introducing them into the wild. CCF’s Human-wildlife conflict remains one proper authorities. CCF participates in in Kenya have declined by more than 80% incentive rewards for every successful tag peacefully co-exist. Situated on a private, research facilities include a conservation of the greatest threats to the cheetah as national and international forums to ensure over the last 30 years, and 85% of turtle and release of a turtle and for each egg 46,353 hectare, integrated livestock-wildlife genetics lab and a Genome Resource Bank ninety percent of the nation’s cheetahs this problem is brought to light and is mortalities are estimated to be the result of that hatches from a nest. To date LaMCoT reserve, the centre’s facilities include a housing the world’s largest database of live on farmlands. To mitigate the problem, presently collaborating on a programme to human activities. have released 90,183 successful hatchlings research laboratory; veterinary clinic; large cheetah biological samples. Scientists from CCF developed Future Farmers of Africa train staff at cheetah-holding facilities in the The globally significant population of sea and have successfully tagged and released group lecture hall; interactive education around the world access these samples for (FFA) to teach integrated livestock-wildlife Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula turtles inhabiting the seas around Lamu and 1,143 turtles with support from Tusk. centre and museum; a modern Visitor their research. management techniques so farmers (where most trafficking occurs) to ensure the its adjacent islands is under threat from a LaMCoT encompasses coral reef Centre; and a range of overnight guest can make a better living without injuring proper care for confiscated live animals. variety of anthropogenic sources including: protection, environmental education, accommodations for students participating cheetahs. FFA builds practical knowledge While the world’s fastest land mammal is illegal consumption and exploitation of sea community development, bee keeping and � in education programmes and international and trains farmers in basic skills. It also on a decline throughout most of its historic tourists. introduced the concept of a livestock- range, in Namibia the cheetah is thriving. The Foundation is based upon the notion guarding dog, a CCF idea which has quickly Namibia has approximately one-third of the that understanding the cheetah’s biology, become one of the most effective tools remaining cheetah population, more than ecology, and interactions with people is Namibian farmers have to protect herds of any other nation on Earth. The country is essential to conserving the species in goats and sheep from predation. popularly known as the ‘Cheetah Capital of the wild. Its strategy is a three-pronged THE FORGOTTEN ONES CCF uses Anatolian shepherd and the World’, due in large part to the success process of research, conservation and Cheetah Extinct in 20+ countries. Only Kangal dogs, two exceptionally large of CCF programmes. education, beginning with long-term studies found in 23% of their historic African Turkish breeds that are fiercely protective. to understand the factors affecting species range and, except for a small population They usually warn-off predators merely survival. CCF relies on its findings to form in Iran of about 50 individuals, are extinct with their presence and loud bark alone, the basis for conservation policies and in their Asian range. but if engaged, they will fight. Farmers who SUSAN YANNETTI programmes. use the dogs report an 80% decrease in External Relations Manager, Cheetah Conservation Fund
ABOVE The CCF Education Centre RIGHT A coalition of cheetah ABOVE Lamu residents supporting the work of the Lamu Marine Project
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SILENT EXTINCTION TUSK TALK 2017 −– –−− SILENT EXTINCTION community efforts to clear rubbish from Grevy’s Zebra — –– – As part of the warriors’ Grevy’s zebra local beaches — all of which are aimed at monitoring, a secondary objective is achieving sustainable management of the achieved through the provision of a Lamu coastal ecosystem. 741 acres of grassroots security presence for wildlife on coral assemblages have been created as the ground. Through their work, the warriors foraging areas for the hawksbill turtle. The What do puppet shows, mud rescues, have become spokespeople within their project has reduced dumping of waste into football matches and camel patrols communities and have gained respect from the sea from the inhabitants of the island have in common? They are all activities THE FORGOTTEN ONES community members. As a result, they are by 95% and through the mobile (by boat) undertaken by the Grevy’s Zebra Grevy’s Zebra One of Africa’s most not only listened to, but their examples are LaMCoT Environment Club, they work with Warriors in their role as messengers, endangered large mammals with only followed by many members of the wider six schools using the Tusk PACE books to protectors and ambassadors for the 2,350 in Kenya and 230 left in Ethiopia. community. develop sustainable practices. endangered Grevy’s zebra of northern The warriors also engage with The turtle project has inspired leaders in Kenya. schoolchildren where they use puppets the community to take it upon themselves to demonstrate the importance of wildlife to create awareness through the wider An iconic species in Kenya’s northern improve habitat through better livestock tolerance, especially regarding access community and to establish a greater rangelands, the Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi) grazing practices, increase conservation to water resources, by the community. understanding and more sustainable use of is one of Africa’s most endangered large awareness, and foster positive attitudes They have also used other communal the islands’ resources. It is small, locally run mammals. The species has undergone a towards the species. opportunities, such as warrior football projects like this which are having an impact substantial range reduction and is restricted matches, to talk to the communities about on sea turtle populations around Africa. to Kenya and Ethiopia, with Kenya hosting Grevy’s Zebra Warriors conservation. over 80% of the global population. Grevy’s With support from Tusk and other partners, Another success of the Grevy’s Zebra zebra numbers have also rapidly declined. GZT employs a team of ten Grevy’s Warrior programme is the conservation ATWAA SALIM Towards the end of the 1970s, the global Zebra Warriors from the local Samburu workshops convened by GZT that give the Project Manager, Lamu Marine Conservation Trust population of Grevy’s zebra was estimated and Rendille ethnic groups, who monitor communities that the warriors belong to a to be 15,000 animals; present-day estimates Grevy’s zebra, raise awareness, and provide chance to develop their own solutions to indicate fewer than 2,500 animals remain. protection to the species. Their outreach to problems they are facing. The conservation The Grevy’s Zebra Trust (GZT) started communities has created a large network of knowledge that is disseminated by the GZT in 2007, with the goal of conserving local support through which conservation team empowers community members with the endangered Grevy’s zebra and its messaging is disseminated and practical the necessary information to make informed fragile habitat in partnership with local conservation action, including dry season decisions about conservation, land, livestock communities. Recognising that Grevy’s water management, mud rescues, and and wildlife issues. This has resulted in the zebra conservation cannot be viewed in supplementary feeding schemes, is entire community championing Grevy’s isolation from people, the Trust undertakes implemented. Camel patrols undertaken zebra conservation efforts across the extensive community outreach to empower by the warriors in the arid and remote landscape.
communities to carry out their own lava plateaus of the Laisamis region have As the next generation of leaders, environmental stewardship. GZT works with resulted in a 50% increase in sightings of GZT knows that engaging the warriors −– –−− all sectors of the community — women, Grevy’s zebra in the region. In addition, the in conservation is critical for long-term SILENT ABOVE A grey crowned crane being treated by Olivier elders, warriors, youth and children — to warriors have been trained in the use of success. And this approach is working. EXTINCTION monitor trends in Grevy’s zebra populations, GPS photography for monitoring purposes, Grey-crowned— Crane –– – also a prized status symbol and is linked which has proved invaluable in to wealth and longevity to those who own providing GZT with an otherwise them. Despite being illegal, grey-crowned unattainable understanding of ANNE-MARIE GORDON cranes are poached from the wild to play the environment in which the Grants and Communications Manager, the role of living lawn ornaments but most warriors operate. Grevy’s Zebra Trust Over the past four decades, the global of the birds suffer from stress, injuries and population of grey-crowned cranes has malnutrition, while their eggs and feathers crashed, falling by up to 80 per cent. are sometimes sought after for their Their situation is so serious that the purported medicinal value. These delicate LEFT Grevy’s Zebra in north Kenya International Union for Conservation birds won’t breed in captivity, and many die. BELOW Grevy’s Zebra warriors of Nature (IUCN) listed them as Despite being a small country Rwanda ‘endangered’ in 2012. has an incredible variety of biodiversity; yet it also has a high population density and Kept as pets and ornaments extreme poverty. This results in resources Once plentiful in Rwanda, there are less than and land being overstretched with high 500 cranes in the wild. Ironically it is the competition between people and wildlife. bird’s symbolism that has led to its downfall. The grey-crowned crane is one species The striking bird — with grey plumage, caught in this battle. Most of the marshlands sharp black and white wings, a crest of have been drained to make room for golden feathers and bright red throat — is agriculture or housing. To compensate for the loss of their habitat to agriculture and construction, many cranes have learned to forage on farmland. This exposes them to toxic agrochemicals or poisoned bait deliberately set by farmers.
Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association THE FORGOTTEN ONES The Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Grey-crowned Crane Their principal Association (RWCA) is working to combat threat are the loss or degradation of the threats faced by the cranes, with suitable wetland habitat due to the particular focus on the illegal trade. increasing human population’s demand Designed and run by Rwandans, who come for agricultural land and freshwater from local communities and understand TOP Girls from Shella Pry School ready for the Tusk pull sources. or vulnerable. their challenges, this project has the key ABOVE Baby turtles leaving the nest support from the Rwandan government �
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They use a some of their time to act as marsh rangers. multidisciplinary, holistic approach to target With the new income-generating activities, the problem from all angles, ensuring that marsh rangers develop sustainable ways of The decline of hirola (Beatragus During the 1970s a survey conducted by the impact is long-term and sustainable. increasing their income and improving their hunteri ) has been a concern to the Kenya Game Department estimated Over the past two years the RWCA has livelihoods so that they do not have to turn conservationists for more than 30 years. 500 Mountain Bongo were in the embarked on a nation-wide awareness to poaching. Aberdares. programme that uses radio and comic Olivier Nsengimana, the founder and In 2007, the Northern Rangelands Trust books to educate Rwandans about the driving force behind the RWCA was a (NRT) became involved in the conservation It is difficult to assess how realistic this birds and why they should stay in the wild. finalist in the 2016 Tusk Conservation of this species through our support to the might have been with little to no scientific A crane registry has been set up to tag Awards. Through the awards the project 68,000 hectare Ishaqbini Hirola Community equipment available at that time. The those kept as pets, and the organisation has has received well-deserved attention and Conservancy in north-eastern Kenya, subsequent export of bongo to zoos worked with the government to establish helped raise awareness of this lesser known close to the border with Somalia. Ishaqbini worldwide in the late 1970-80s (notably an amnesty programme to return any endangered species, which at times has conservancy is owned and managed by the from the Southern Aberdares) along with a illegally kept birds to a rehabilitation centre been overshadowed by the conservation local Abdulla Somali community, pastoralist severe outbreak of rinderpest together with in Rwanda’s Akagera National Park. To date of species such as the Mountain Gorilla for people whose livelihoods depend on their dramatic increases in poaching and the over 80 birds have been returned to the wild which Rwanda is much better known. livestock. It is a little known part of Kenya, destruction of the bongo natural habitat, led and several have already borne chicks. The driving force behind Olivier’s work is with poor infrastructure and no tourism to a rapid decline in bongo numbers. By the a strong belief that the involvement of the despite the diversity and high numbers of early 1990s, it was feared bongo were close Reversing the illegal trade local population in conservation issues is wildlife that are found there. to extinction. Reducing the source of the illegal trade in the key to their success and sustainability. The conservancy employs 38 people In 2003, Mike Prettejohn, a bongo the birds is a key focus of the work. Their “Having the cranes disappear means from the local community and is managed specialist, was requested by the Kenya work with local communities around key there is something wrong, a balance that by a Board of elected community members Wildlife Service (KWS) to investigate the areas where wild cranes are known to live has not been maintained. Conservation is from the three villages. The conservancy status of the bongo. He undertook some in Rwanda such as Rugezi marshland has about saving humans as well. If we protect has established infrastructure including a initial surveillance in the Aberdares with a a myriad of strategies with the main aims animals in their habitats, we are protecting headquarters, airstrip, radio network and ABOVE Two hirola antelope in the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy small team of experienced bongo trackers of raising awareness through roadshow ourselves. If we fail, we are endangering our security outposts. Community rangers, who to determine if any bongo were surviving. conservation campaigns, increasing law children.” have been trained through the Kenya Wildlife a 2,700 hectare fenced, predator-proof eight animals to the drought. Despite this, The work that followed has been highly enforcement and providing opportunities for Service and NRT, carry out anti-poaching sanctuary for the species in August 2012. the success of the predator-proof sanctuary significant in understanding the plight of the alternative sources of income as a deterrent patrols and wildlife monitoring across the The purpose of the sanctuary is to provide a as a secure breeding area for hirola has species. from poaching. The association helps to conservancy. secure area for a viable breeding population exceeded expectations: the populations steer community members (including ex- OLIVIER NSENGIMANA DVM, MVETSCI as a means of increasing the chances of hirola have increased faster than initially Bongo Surveillance Project poachers) towards alternative sources of Founder and Executive Director, Rwanda Wildlife Ishaqbini Hirola of recovery for this species. A founder projected and we are now embarking on The Bongo Surveillance Project (BSP) food and income through the establishment Conservation Association Community Conservancy population of approximately 48 hirola was the next phase of releasing selected herds was formed in 2005 and over the last ten When the conservancy was first established, established in the sanctuary, alongside of hirola outside the fence and discussing years has played a major role in preventing poaching was a serious problem, mainly by other wildlife already in the area. All large plans for expansion of the sanctuary with the extinction of the mountain bongo in the neighbouring community living along predators including cheetah, spotted the community. Kenya. The continual, critical monitoring the Tana River. Monitoring by conservancy hyena and leopard were removed from the Tusk was an early supporter of NRT and reporting carried out by a small team of rangers also revealed high predation rates sanctuary through trapping or darting and and Ishaqbini and has been instrumental expert surveillance trackers has been widely on hirola in the last remaining stronghold released outside the fence. in raising funds for the conservation of this � of this species within the conservancy. By critically endangered species, including 2010, despite the conservancy getting Drought Crisis sourcing emergency funds for the recent on top of poaching and setting aside a By the end of 2016, the hirola population drought. It is our hope that, with the conservation area, the hirola population in the sanctuary had more than doubled continued strong support and commitment was not increasing. Rangers also recorded to over 110 individuals, with an average of the Ishaqbini community and with increased sightings of predators, and in annual population growth rate of 20% partners like Tusk who can bring greater particular, lion became resident in the over the past four years. Annual mortality international attention to the plight of this conservancy. It appeared that an unintended is low, particularly of calves, in contrast to rare and beautiful animal, the hirola faces a THE FORGOTTEN ONES consequence of good management by high calf mortality seen in hirola outside the brighter future. Mountain Bongo A large male can the conservancy was a situation where sanctuary. However, after poor rains for weigh up to 450 kg, measure almost predators were less disturbed by people two consecutive seasons the region faced 8 feet from nose to tail, and can stand so they moved in and the hirola were being a crisis in late 2016 and, even though we DR JULIET KING almost 5 feet in height. predated at a rate that the small hirola brought in supplementary food, we lost Technical Advisor, Northern Rangelands Trust population couldn’t sustain. As a result of this, and following an aerial survey in 2011 which revealed that less than 500 hirola remained in their natural range in Kenya, Ishaqbini and NRT established e are all too familiar with endangered species at Artemis, thanks to our work looking after Wand nurturing Profits. So we’re delighted to continue supporting Tusk. To find out more about Artemis, contact your financial adviser or call 0800 092 2051.
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SILENT EXTINCTION TUSK TALK 2017 −– –−− SILENT EXTINCTION African Wild Dog— –– – which operates a four day residential Living with wildlife programme that aims to inspire the children At the heart of PDC is the conviction that and create within them an emotional conservation organisations must provide attachment to the beauty and complexity real benefit to local communities that live of nature. PDC’s skilled educators teach side by side with the wildlife. PDC meets The African wild dog painted dog local children conservation concepts, an this conviction by employing from the local population (also known as Painted understanding of ecological relationships, communities, running and extensive HIV/ Dogs due to their unusual colouring) the value of biodiversity, and an appreciation AIDS programme, drilling boreholes to has reduced to little more than 1% of of the role painted dogs play in ecosystem. provide clean reliable sources of water and its former estimated population in just The Iganayna Children’s Bush Camp was assisting with the development of nutritional 100 years. It is believed that fewer than established with and maintained by support gardens alongside these boreholes. 7,000 now remain in the wilds of Africa. from Tusk. Bruce Lombardo, an American The effectiveness of these programmes naturalist and specialist in interpretive is there to see. PDC is highly regarded Painted Dog Conservation (PDC) is guiding, designed the exceptional within the community and a recent incident, based in Zimbabwe, which is home to an programme. Bruce states “Painted Dog when the painted dogs killed a goat, estimated 700 – 800 painted dogs and Conservation’s bush camp programme is underlines that PDC is on track. The PDC thus is considered to be home to one of an unparalleled educational opportunity for team visited the elderly man who had lost the last viable painted dog populations on local children that will have a significantly the goat, expecting to hear demands for the planet. Situated adjacent to Hwange positive impact on conservation endeavours compensation and retribution. Even the National Park, PDC works on the hard edge in the area by encouraging a stakeholder PDC staff were astonished and delighted ABOVE LEFT Pupils at the Kamburaini school ABOVE RIGHT Sarah Watson, Tusk’s Director of Programmes, at Kamburaini school’s tree planting project of conservation, employing anti-poaching attitude in local communities over time. by the passion with which the aggrieved scouts and monitoring six packs of painted Whereas before, locals have been man talked about PDC, about the painted recognised on a local and international Aberdares Bongo programme which has helped change the dogs on a daily basis. These direct-action expected to protect something that they dogs and all they are doing for his people. basis. The early spoor/dung information The outlook for this group is very optimistic. future for the bongo. With security, frequent strategies are backed up by a world-class had no direct experience with, no emotional He ended saying: “the loss of one goat is collected by BSP and subsequently used The Salient/Honi group are growing and it monitoring and community support as education and awareness programme that attachment to and received no direct benefit nothing compared to what the (painted) for DNA analysis by Cardiff University helped is likely their numbers are now estimated shown in the Maasai Mau and Aberdares, reaches more than 15,000 people a year. from, short of conducting illegal activities, dogs do for our children.” form the information to validate the IUCN at over 50, with an increasing number of these groups are getting stronger and their Tusk have supported PDC for more than bush camp alumni will increasingly represent As powerful a testament as you can ‘Critically Endangered’ status. calves. diversity is most encouraging. 15 years and it is during this period that a new generation of villagers over time.” get to support PDC’s community-based The BSP trackers come from local With increased security, this bongo group In areas such as Eburu where numbers PDC has grown into what many consider is conservation. Still there is a long way to communities who have gathered experience have extending their range and have been are too low to increase naturally, bongo will a model for conservation. The charity funded go to ensure that the painted dogs and all from many years in these forests and are an seen in a wider location across the Salient. need to be introduced. It is critical for any the PDC anti-poaching unit from day one. wildlife have an environment in which they integral link into the communities that live in Recently the staff at the historic Ark Hotel ‘introduced’ animals that they have limited These brave men and women patrol over an can thrive. � the forest. The work can be very challenging sighted a bongo on the far side of the Ark’s dependency on humans and that they are in area of some 4000km2 and have collected due the mountainous terrain and lack of waterhole, in daylight. good health. This introduction programme more than 30,000 snares. These deadly interaction with the species. Of the current An animal was last seen in this location in will require complete supervision before traps are made from a simple length of wire PETER BLINSTON 16 BSP trackers only one has seen a bongo 1988 so this was very rewarding for the BSP a controlled release to the ‘safe’ forest or cable and often set along game paths Executive Director, Painted Dog Conservation in the wild! Their monitoring is conducted Aberdares team. areas. All these options are currently being leading to waterholes. It is estimated that using camera traps and GPS data. evaluated by the Bongo Task Force, headed 30,000 snares would kill more than 3,000 THE FORGOTTEN ONES During patrols with KWS they report Maasai Mau Bongo by KWS. animals. The Painted Dog Also known as the illegal activities which threaten the bongo, The support of the community is paramount There is new optimism for the future of African Wild Dog, can trace its ancestry but other species as well. The present day in this location, as the group are located on the bongo, with two growing populations Iganyana Children’s Bush Camp back some 40 million years to Miacis, a threats to the bongo are primarily forest Community Trust land. in the wild and for the potential to develop The Iganyana Children’s Bush Camp is the small carnivorous animal with short legs degradation from timber extraction and BSP have been able to identify up to a captive/wild programme in the future. focal point of PDC’s world-class education and a long body. The Civet is a direct poaching, particularly with dogs, that target 18 individual bongo including a number of There’s no doubting that the bongo in the and awareness programme. More than descendant. this secretive animal. calves. From the camera-trap analysis and wild have come perilously close to extinction 1,000 children a year attend the camp, surrounding tracks, there are likely to be an but BSP are doing their utmost to turn this Mountain Bongo Numbers estimated 30 bongo in this area. around. In 2016 an evaluation of the 1,000+ camera In 2016 154 camera-trap photos and -trap photographs was undertaken to 27 video clips were taken of this group and identify the individuals. have been an inspiration to the community This was no easy task as camera-trap leaders. photographs are often night photographs and not always very clear. This data, The Future together with tracks and spoor evidence, With Tusk support, BSP has implemented JULIETTE SHEARS has helped clarify current bongo numbers. a bongo monitoring and education On behalf of Bongo Surveillance Project
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SILENT EXTINCTION TUSK TALK 2017 −– –−− SILENT EXTINCTION The Giant Sable— –– – Shepherd Programme A crucial component developed by the Kissama Foundation is the shepherd programme. This programme builds on the involvement of local residents in the The giant sable antelope is regarded as almost complete absence of formal park the natural national symbol in Angola THE FORGOTTEN ONES management authorities on the ground. and occurs nowhere else in the world. The Giant Sable Occurs only in Angola, Members of the local communities were in two protected areas — Cangandala trained and hired to be the giant sable The species is critically endangered and National Park and Luando Nature Strict guardians or ‘shepherds’, becoming its populations have collapsed by more Reserve. simultaneously research assistants and than 90% during the civil war from 1975 to semi-official law enforcement agents 2002. Unfortunately, the war also impacted recognised by Government. severely on the two protected areas where The shepherd programme has been a the species occur, namely Cangandala huge success, as the shepherds have been National Park and Luando Nature Strict uplifted and are proud of their roles, and Reserve, which became abandoned, had at the same time are providing a much- the infrastructures destroyed and became needed service to help curb poaching exposed to poaching. and assist the conservation initiatives. The Since the war ended in 2002 the Kissama Foundation aims to expand the recovery has been slow, hampered by programme in subsequent months, investing lack of formal park management and law in more, better training and providing new enforcement, and by escalating poaching equipment. The ultimate goal is to have the to fuel the bushmeat trade at unsustainable shepherds formally integrated into the park levels. A lot of poaching is done with the management, once established. use of shotguns and automatic weapons, but the most insidious and likely the most Manuel Sacaia
damaging, results from the use of foot-traps Tusk has been a partner to the giant −– –−− and cable-snares placed around waterholes. sable conservation project over the years, SILENT As result many sable are killed every year supporting the shepherd programme in EXTINCTION and a lot more become crippled and are lost Luando financially and allowing the purchase Western Lowland Gorilla— –– – for breeding. of a quad bike which is still in use in the reserve. More recently, one of the most ABOVE Western Lowland gorillas in the Loango Reserve Giant Sable Conservation Project notable of the giant sable shepherds, Launched in 2003, the giant sable Manuel Sacaia, was awarded the prestigious ABOVE Collaring a Roan Antelope conservation project has been leading the BELOW Pedro Vaz Pinto from Kissama Foundation Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award in 2016. The Western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla population size because they have a very providing employment opportunities. Many efforts to protect and study the species collaring a bit male sable antelope bull high visibility of this award and the related gorilla) are found across a landscape of slow growth rate. Specifically, female gorillas of our staff are pygmies, a group that has in situ. As the implementing agency support to the shepherds channelled by approximately 655,000 km2 of equatorial start to reproduce only around 12 years of been marginalised across Africa. However coordinating the project, the Kissama surveys and capture operations for animal Tusk is expected to play a decisive role Africa, including Cameroon, Equatorial age, they have one offspring about every in Loango their traditional knowledge of Foundation assists the Angolan Government immobilisation and marking, and relocations in boosting the conservation efforts in the Guinea, Angola, Republic of Congo, five years, and one offspring in three will not the rainforest is key to the success of the by developing strategies and executing between the two study areas. The Kissama future. ● Central African Republic, and Gabon. survive to adulthood. tourism and monitoring work where they specific activities to protect the sable and Foundation is also promoting scientific Successful conservation strategies have successfully habituated one group of its habitat. The Foundation has successfully research associated with the giant sable Despite there currently being about 150,000 typically take a multifaceted approach, western gorillas containing 16 members. implemented a series of ambitious on ecology and genetics as well as through western lowland gorillas in the wild, they are which may include research and tourism. Non-invasive techniques including camera conservation tasks, such as building educational materials to raise awareness on PEDRO VAZ PINTO classified as critically endangered because Research provides the baseline information traps and genetic analysis of faecal samples fenced camps, undertaking several aerial the need for biodiversity protection. Project Coordinator, Kissama Foundation of the rapid decline they are experiencing concerning the natural ecological and are used to monitor the presence of other due to the major threats of habitat loss, behavioral repertoire of a species and it gorillas in the study site. disease, and poaching. The forests where provides a measure of the effectiveness of gorillas live are quickly disappearing conservation strategies. Responsibly run Gorilla Tourism largely due to the logging industry and the great ape tourism in the wild offers a win-win In collaboration with the Gabonese park expansion of industrial scale agriculture for situation because it generates revenue for service, tourist visits to the gorillas began products including palm oil. conservation, it provides protection for and in June 2016 and have been steadily Increased access to remote areas raises awareness about apes. increasing in 2017. Gorilla tourism will not leads to increased illegal hunting as well as only help economically on the local and increased potential for disease transmission The Loango Gorilla Project national level, but it will also raise awareness between gorillas and humans. It takes a long The Loango Gorilla Project, formed in of the importance of conserving Loango time for gorillas to recover from a decline in collaboration with the Gabonese National and rainforests throughout central Africa. Park Authorities, aims to better understand Conservation efforts focused on protecting the ecology and behaviour of western western gorillas and their habitat have a gorillas and to establish gorilla tourism. broader effect of conserving the forests that Loango National Park is ecologically also contain forest elephants, chimpanzees, unique and distinct from other locations and many other species. where western gorillas have been studied, Ultimately, conservation efforts for gorillas providing an opportunity to better do not require rocket science but intense understand the ecological and behavioural efforts to work with local communities, THE FORGOTTEN ONES flexibility possible as well as provide useful industry, and governments on national and Western Lowland Gorilla Despite there information to assist in their conservation on international levels so we prevent further being about 150,000 in the wild, they both a local and regional level. decline of gorillas in the central African are classified as critically endangered Funding from Tusk has assisted in forests. because of their rapid decline due to providing staff salaries, equipment, and the threats of habitat loss, disease, and the basic maintenance of the project. poaching. The project assists with community MARTHA M. ROBBINS PHD development for our Gabonese staff by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Time for change UK viewpoints on the Ivory Trade
When I was Secretary of State at The London Declaration also saw the DEFRA, I visited Kenya to see for myself creation of the Elephant Protection Initiative In an impassioned speech broadcast live from global audience to join him in the fight to save the shocking decline in Africa’s elephant by five African leaders, calling for domestic The View at The Shard — Europe’s tallest building endangered species from extinction at the hands population. ivory markets to close and support for elephant conservation under a common — on the eve of the 17th CITES conference of criminal syndicates profiting from the £20 An elephant is lost every 15 minutes and platform. in September 2016, Prince William urged a billion a year illegal wildlife trade. the sight and stench of these magnificent Since 2014, further conferences have creatures turned senselessly into been held in Botswana and Hanoi, from horrendous, rotting carcasses disgusts me which we have seen a number of positive still. steps. In Hanoi, the Environment Secretary, Following that visit, I worked closely Andrea Leadsom, committed an additional with the then Foreign Secretary, William £13 million of funding to tackle the trade, Hague, to tackle the practice of elephant and announced the Government’s proposals poaching. We understood that such an for a consultation to close our domestic ambitious project required global agreement, ivory market. These measures are, of and used the extraordinary scope of the course, immensely welcome. UK’s international influence to convene the Internationally, the US domestic market London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife closed last summer, with workable, Trade at Lancaster House in 2014. The pragmatic exemptions for some antiques. London Conference was the biggest ever of China — the largest market in the world — its kind, bringing together over 40 countries. is committed to act before the end of the It agreed a strategy to prevent poaching: year. We saw the first concrete signs of this improving enforcement, reducing market commitment at the end of March, when the demand and supporting communities to find closure of a third of Chinese ivory factories viable alternatives. and retail stores was announced. Set against this commendable global progress, the UK must continue to ensure that we do not fall behind. With the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference returning to London in 2018, the gaze of the international community will be firmly upon us once again. We must take action to prove to the world that we are willing and able to lead on this issue as we have done before. DEFRA will shortly be launching its consultation on a UK ivory ban, which was announced in September. Since that announcement and a debate in Westminster Hall in February, a great deal of effort has gone on behind the scenes, with members of the Government, MPs, conservationists and representatives of the antiques trade striving to find a common workable position which can be agreed upon and implemented rapidly. Tusk is a key conservation charity, which has been instrumental in highlighting the horrific consequences of the ivory trade. At your Time for Change event last September, Speaking at Tusk’s ‘Time For Change’ With over 1,000 rangers killed over the last philanthropist, Dr Haruhisa Handa. your patron HRH The Duke of Cambridge event, Prince William said, “When I was decade fighting the war against poachers, Dr Handa generously offered the support spoke powerfully to draw global attention born there were one million elephants it is time said Prince William “…. to say that of his ISPS Handa foundation to enable to the shocking damage done by poaching. roaming Africa. By the time my daughter ivory is a symbol of destruction, not of luxury Tusk to stage the simultaneous global event. Such tireless work has put real pressure on Charlotte was born, the numbers of and not something that anyone needs to sell He told the audience, “I do not wish to be policy makers. savannah elephants had crashed to or trade. Indeed I would challenge anyone, part of a generation, who knew what was As the DEFRA consultation opens, we just 350,000. And at the current pace of who knows the truth of how these wildlife happening and yet did nothing. That would must ensure that all this international effort illegal poaching, when Charlotte turns products are obtained to justify desiring be a terrible crime.” is translated into decisive, practical actions, 25 the African elephant will be gone them.” Tusk is extremely grateful to the which will stop poaching and save today’s from the wild.” The Prince was joined in London by additional event sponsors Land Rover, elephants. senior UK political figures, Andrea Leadsom, Avios and Pol Roger, as well as CTN The charity’s Royal Patron, who has long the Secretary of State for the Environment, Communications, the South African Institute campaigned against the illegal wildlife trade, former Foreign Secretary, Lord Hague, and of International Affairs and Stop Ivory for RT HON OWEN PATERSON MP used his first speech to be broadcast live former Secretary of State, Owen Paterson. their support in staging this unique event. Former UK Secretary of State for Environment on Facebook to add, “This crisis is not just Broadcaster Hugh Fearnley Whitingstall about animals — this crisis is about people. opened the event and invited speeches from ABOVE LEFT Part of 105 tonnes of ivory being burnt at the great ivory burn in Nairobi, April 2016 It is some of the world’s poorest peoples CITES Secretary General, John Scanlon via ABOVE Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presenting the Tusk who will suffer when their natural resources satellite in Johannesburg and from Tokyo CHARLIE MAYHEW Time for Change live debate head of the COP17 event are stripped from them illegally and brutally.” by the event’s sponsor and Japanese CEO Tusk Trust LEFT Guests at the top of The Shard
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This article first appeared in The Independent on 30th January 2017. Reprinted here with kind permission. The UK must become a global leader in the fight against poaching
After the surprises of 2016, both at home and abroad, 2017 will be a year of change. But there is some trepidation as to what it might bring. However, for elephants, 2017 has unquestionably got off to a good start.
Two good news stories over the Christmas break didn’t get the attention they deserve. First, Hong Kong confirmed its timetable for enacting a ban on ivory sales. Legislation will be introduced in early 2017, kicking off a three-step plan of increasing restrictions culminating in a total ban on all ivory sales in 2021. This news was followed by the major announcement from the Chinese Government that it will close its domestic ivory market by the end of 2017. This has rightly been heralded as a game changer for the future of elephants. The overwhelming majority of ivory traded across the world is destined for China. The closure of China’s ivory market will strike a body blow to the global ivory trade and the horrors of the bloody poaching it drives. The Duke of Cambridge was not exaggerating when he said that China’s decision ‘could be a turning point in the race to save elephants from extinction.’ The symbolic importance of China’s announcement should be noted as announced that it would consult on the front line to stop the killing and trafficking of for a total ban has received over 100,000 products exist, elephants will never be safe ivory market and to do so quickly. We must well. China first committed to closing its closure of only a small segment of the elephants. signatures meaning the issue will be and the prospects for rural communities choose now to ensure that 2017 is the year domestic ivory market in 2015, and this UK ivory market: the very smallest token But this leadership internationally is being debated by the Government. With domestic across Africa will be blighted. that elephants are finally valued over their announcement delivers on this promise. step it could take. The Government has undermined by our failure to act at home. and international consensus united around Since the Government announced the ivory. Consumer demand for ivory in China is been asked to act at a speed and scope Speaking in September, the Environment the need to close ivory markets, many of consultation, 10,000 further elephants have driven by its status as a luxury product and commensurate with other countries, but we Secretary Andrea Leadsom commended the us are at a loss to explain the UK’s ongoing been butchered across Africa for their tusks. a status symbol. This determined action are now beginning 2017 without clarity of UK for its “strong record as a global leader inaction. While the consultation must be welcomed ALEXANDER RHODES from the Chinese Government shows a how and when the British ivory market will in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade” While the UK hesitates, it’s clear that as an opportunity for the UK to take real Trustee of Tusk Trust and former CEO Stop Ivory commitment to valuing wildlife over jewellery be shut. and challenged other countries to match elephants cannot afford to wait for action. action, the current scope is too narrow and and furniture. It recognises that a live The UK has a proud reputation as a the UK’s record. However, the reality is that Figures published in August 2016 showed the timetable too slow to be meaningful. ABOVE LEFT HRH The Duke of Cambridge with Lord elephant is always worth more than ivory global leader in wildlife conservation. In 2014 other countries are steaming ahead of us that savanna elephant populations declined The Government must use this consultation Hague, The Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom Secretary of products. This cultural change is vital if we we hosted the first International Conference when it comes to tackling the ivory trade. by 30% between 2007 and 2014, with more process to look beyond its current proposals State for Environment and The Rt Hon Owen Paterson are to end the ivory trade once and for all. on Illegal Wildlife Trade, at which the leaders They have absorbed the evidence, set out than 140,000 elephants lost. The huge and instead set out its plan for total market MP at the Tusk Shard event China has set the ball rolling. The US has of five African countries launched the their plans and put them into action — while sums made from the illegal ivory trade are closure following the examples of China and TOP Dr Haruhisa Handa addressing the audience in Japan already stepped up; France is taking forward groundbreaking Elephant Protection Initiative the UK is still obfuscating, waiting to consult also fuelling global criminal activity including America. ABOVE HRH The Duke of Cambridge with some young new laws and, while Hong Kong’s timetable (EPI), calling for governments to close their on next steps. trafficking. As long as markets for ivory It is within our power to close the UK supporters at The Shard seems overly slow, governments worldwide domestic ivory markets. The UK should There are no clear reasons for this delay. are acting to close ivory markets in their own rightly be proud of the EPI’s success: with a The Conservative Party committed to a jurisdictions. This concerted action will make growing membership of 16 African countries ‘total ban on ivory sales’ in its 2010 and 2017 the year that domestic ivory markets at Presidential level, the declared support of 2015 manifestos. The last Government’s are finally closed. all major NGOs operating in the field and a leadership under both Lord Hague and Alarmingly, the UK is one of the few dedicated joint-secretariat provided by Stop Owen Paterson MP was passionate and LAND ROVER exceptions to this global effort. With Ivory and Conservation International, it has Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has IS A PROUD one of the largest remaining emerged as a new paradigm of spoken eloquently and stridently about the ivory markets globally, and a African-led, partnership-based urgent need for us to deliver change at PARTNER longstanding commitment to and results-oriented delivery home without delay. It is also one of the few OF TUSK press for a total ban on ivory to stop the ivory trade and issues on which there is genuine consensus sales, the British Government secure a meaningful future for on across party lines, with all major parties landrover.com has a duty to act and to do so elephants and the people who in Parliament united on the need for an ivory without delay. In September last live alongside them. ban. Moreover, there is undeniable public year, following pressure from Initiatives such as the support — recent polling found that 80% other countries and NGOs, the Elephant Crisis Fund and the of the UK public think buying and selling Department for Environment, Giants’ Club are also delivering ivory in the UK should be banned, while a Food and Rural Affairs finally increasingly effective work at the petition on the Parliament website calling Official Fuel Consumption Figures for the Land Rover range in mpg (l/100km): Urban 15.4-57.7 (18.3-4.9); Extra Urban 29.0-76.4 (9.8-3.7); Combined 22.1-67.3 (12.8-4.2). CO2 Emissions 109-299 g/km. Drive responsibly on and off-road. Official EU Test Figures. For comparison purposes only. Real world figures may differ.
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approaches over the years. When combined With the generous support of the Prince disruption of most of the major poaching The success of the trial projects helped us colleagues to ensure the sustainability of the Counter-poaching with established informant networks around of Wales’s Charitable Foundation, and groups in Zimbabwe. — through Tusk — to secure a significant initiative. Meanwhile, 16 information officers protected areas, it has also proven possible facilitated by Tusk, we were able to conduct Liwonde National Park in Malawi had two-year grant from the UK Government from six protected areas have received training in Africa to disrupt poachers in their ‘rest’ areas, two trial projects in 2015 and one in early been losing two elephant a week and the through the IWT Challenge Fund, for an expert training in information gathering and as well as when active, to great effect. 2016. Fifty-five rangers from six countries occasional rhino. Since June 2016 there ambitious programme to extend the training analysis, and a network is being established The most successful wildlife protection (Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, have been no losses after rangers started to rangers and information officers from at for sharing information between them. initiatives combine these two approaches Zambia and Zimbabwe) were trained in receiving training earlier that year. The Park least 14 different protected areas across six We look forward to reporting back next with significant and sensitive investment in basic-level interception tracking, during authorities have also reported a drastic African countries (many of them managed year on the difference that all of this has Where poaching in Africa has been community development. three separate training sessions, and an increase in the distances covered by rangers by African Parks, the project’s main partner made. ● successfully reduced, it has often These were the key findings from a fact- information sharing strategy for the African who took part in the training, who previously organisation). With extra support from the been achieved through the large-scale finding mission to review how intelligence Parks Network was completed. believed that 3 – 4 km was the greatest Rufford Foundation, the project began deployment of rangers on the perimeter is supporting anti-poaching operations Over a relatively short period since they distance achievable in one day, but now in April 2016. As the training comes to a LUKE TOWNSEND of protected areas or through small, in four African countries — South Africa, took place, the trial projects have already regularly cover 15 – 20 km. close this year, 140 rangers have been Counter-poaching Coordinator highly trained and motivated units that Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania — which been a factor in some significant successes Rangers at Majete National Park, also in trained to a basic level of interception can track and intercept poachers. I conducted with my colleague Touko for the protected areas concerned. Malawi, have also lost no rhino or elephant tracking, 96 of which are receiving further Sandström in 2014. Together we formed Zimbabwe’s Savé Valley Conservancy since they too were trained last March, and training to an intermediate level. Advanced Yet too few ranger teams have the capacity the Counter-Poaching Coordination Team to have reported a reduction of poaching to they have reported a significant increase level training is then being delivered to 36 to track and intercept, despite considerable implement our recommendations wherever incidental levels since the first two training in disruptions of poaching attempts and of these rangers, so that they can lead investment in alternative anti-poaching we could. sessions held there contributed towards the arrests of those involved. anti-poaching operations and train their ABOVE Counter-poaching training in Malawi
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Tusk Conservation Awards 2016
Prince William honours Africa’s frontline heroes
The V&A Museum was host to a gala At the end of the ceremony there was a ceremony to celebrate the extraordinary surprise award when the Prince turned the lives of five men and women dedicated tables on Sir David, offering the legendary to the survival of Africa’s endangered natural history broadcaster heartfelt wildlife. thanks for his ‘immense contribution’ to conservation and for inspiring generations Tusk’s Royal Patron HRH The around the globe to care for the natural Duke of Cambridge was joined by Sir world. David Attenborough to honour their Sir David proceeded to make a powerful work and achievements at the fourth and totally impromptu speech which the annual Tusk Conservation Awards, hosted audience acknowledged with a standing by Kate Silverton. ovation. In a speech The Duke said, “As ever, tonight I have been humbled by the sheer dedication and commitment that all of our It has always been an immense 2016 nominees have shown, in preserving privilege and honour to host the Tusk — against the odds — our precious natural awards. It’s such a delight to meet these world. Their work is dangerous but vitally “exceptional people, to hear their stories and important – and we are immensely grateful to be part of an evening which celebrates for it.” their achievements so warmly. Attended by many of the charity’s These dedicated custodians of our high profile supporters and Tusk Patrons natural world work selflessly without thought including Ronnie Wood, Deborah Meaden, of praise or recognition which is why the Katherine Jenkins and Bear Grylls, the Tusk Awards are so wonderful. They shine finalists, Chinese, Rwandan and Angolan a spotlight on the very people, places and Ambassadors and Tusk’s key supporters issues that deserve it the most. enjoyed a champagne reception before taking their seats in the Raphael Room for KATE SILVERTON the Awards ceremony. BBC Presenter and Journalist
ABOVE The V&A Museum in London RIGHT Tusk Conservation Awards 2016 finalistsL to R Rachel McRobb, John Kahekwa, Olivier Nsengimana, Cathy Dreyer, Manuel Sacaia
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ABOVE, CLOCKWISE H.E Liu Xiaoming Chinese Ambassador to the UK with Tusk CEO Charlie Mayhew and Hendrik and Lorette du Toit from Investec; Deborah Meaden, Tusk ABOVE, CLOCKWISE Kate Silverton, Mike Heron, Katherine Jenkins and Andrew Levitas; Wendy Breck, Board Member of Tusk USA, with Alan Rogers; Cathy Dreyer making her Patron and Trustee; John Kahekwa, winner of the Prince William Award for Conservation, with HRH The Duke of Cambridge; HRH The Duke of Cambridge making a speech; acceptance speech; Sally and Ronnie Wood with Sir David Attenborough; Bear Grylls, Tusk Patron Dr Karen Ross and Ali Kaka,both Award judges, either side of Dr John Scanlon, Director General of CITES
PRINCE WILLIAM AWARD FOR would work hand- zone between community farmland and TUSK AWARD FOR to became a turning point in her life as she CONSERVATION IN AFRICA WINNER in-hand with the the park which serves multiple purposes. It CONSERVATION IN AFRICA WINNER developed a deep, lifelong passion for the local communities in helps to keep people out of the park and the species which has since carved her career finding sustainable gorillas safe; provides sustainable firewood in conservation. John Kahekwa solutions for their for communities; and amid the trees, food Cathy Dreyer Seeing the potential in the young student needs while at cropping and livestock programmes are SANParks Veterinary Wildlife Services unit the same time being run, to provide alternative sources of offered Cathy a permanent position as Born near the Kahuzi-Biega National educating them protein to stop bushmeat hunting. Cathy Dreyer started her career at the a Veterinary Technologist. Although this Park’s (KBNP) headquarters office, John about and engaging Unfortunately, the wildlife of the age of twenty-two with South African was a profession in which she was not at the age of ten watched a film about them in the Maiko-Tayna-Kahuzi-Biega Landscape is National Parks (SANParks) as a nature formally trained, Cathy took the opportunity the endemic Grauer’s (eastern lowland) protection of the still in extreme danger of extinction due conservation student in the Addo with open arms and excelled in both the gorillas and dreamed of working for the natural resources to continued presence of various armed Elephant National Park. veterinary and operational side of the park. for the next groups, poachers and illegal miners within capture unit, becoming a stalwart of the generations. the protected areas. In the KBNP and During the course of her practical year she team. His dream became a reality when soon In 1992, John surrounding forests (with the exception assisted Dr Pete Morkel with the capture The work ranged from general after finishing school he was employed founded the Pole of the protected highland sector, which and boma training of black rhino that were maintenance of the equipment to building as a tracker and quickly forged a life-long Pole Foundation. comprises 10% of the park), the Grauer’s being relocated between parks. This was capture bomas; animal husbandry to love and appreciation for the species. John Pole Pole means gorilla population is estimated to have assisting with soon became KBNP’s chief tracker and for ‘go slowly’ in declined by 77% since the mid-1990s. laboratory and some twenty years he served as the Chief Swahili and this Saving the wildlife in this region, clinical work. She Gorilla Habituation Officer. Throughout the exemplifies the which is still unstable in terms of security, was one of the 1980s-1990s he was responsible for the give up and during the war they managed to long-term approach that John has taken requires brave, local and experienced pivots in the mass habituation of several gorilla groups, who save approximately 50% of the gorillas in the to achieving successful, sustainable professionals, who are able to tackle this capture team were visited by countless tourists from highland sector of the Park from being killed. conservation. The logo of the organisation immense challenge despite the different which moved over around the world. Under John’s careful Today, thanks to the strong conservation shows gorillas and people standing on hazards associated with the task, such as 30,000 plains guidance, these fortunate visitors learned efforts in this sector of the park, the gorilla either side of a tree reflecting his belief that dealing with rebel forces and illegal miners. game throughout to appreciate the precious yet vulnerable population is slowly recuperating and even communities, the forest and the gorillas are Furthermore, the local population in this her period of wildlife of the Congo. growing in numbers. inseparable; to help one you must help all region lives in extreme poverty, having employment. Unfortunately, during the long and vicious John is one of the most knowledgeable three. suffered more than 20 years of war and During this time civil war in eastern DRC, many of the gorillas people in Central Africa with regards to For more than two decades, John hardships. Working with people in such she became John knew by name were slaughtered by gorilla biology and behaviour and is a and his organisation have implemented conditions is extremely challenging and actively involved different armed groups who occupied the dedicated, hard-working conservationist as numerous projects in the communities requires someone with whom the local in the veterinary National Park. The poaching climaxed when well as a published scientist. After years in surrounding the KBNP, including communities can build trust and agree to aspects of various the country’s most famous gorilla was killed, which he witnessed the encroachment of environmental education, construction cooperate. John Kahekwa, being a member conservation and Maheshe, a silverback who was featured the human population on the park and the of schools, vocational training of former of that community and having spent more breeding projects on the Congolese 5,000 franc banknote. slow destruction of the natural environment, poachers and tree planting. Four million than thirty years in the field, is such a such as the Kruger Nevertheless, John and his crew did not John decided to establish a local NGO that trees have been planted to create a buffer person. buffalo breeding
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project and the Back To Africa sable TUSK WILDLIFE RANGER AWARD ranger. In 2008 he was integrated into the antelope project. Giant Sable Shepherd Team — guardians It was a great loss to the organisation of the giant sable antelope — managed by when, in 2012 Cathy decided to leave Manuel Sacaia the Kissama Foundation. Considering his after 14 years with SANParks, to take skills and performance, he quickly became up a position with Eastern Cape Parks the group leader and was instrumental in and Tourism Agency as the Conservation Manuel Sacaia has faced armed the rediscovery of the giant sable in Luando, Manager for Great Fish River Nature soldiers, poachers, steel-jawed traps which has been key to Kissama’s current Reserve. Her role is as the custodian of and even a hungry lion in a life spent conservation programmes. one of the world’s most significant rhino protecting Angola’s iconic giant sable At the time only nine females had populations – here her passion and drive to antelope. survived the civil war in Cangandala protect rhino has found a worthy home. National Park, and the recovery of the During her relatively short career Manuel was only a teenager working as species was dependent on the situation Cathy has been an integral part of many a ranger when Angola’s civil war broke in Luando. Between 2002 and 2009 all successful wildlife relocation projects, both out in 1979. Rebel fighters detained him surveys in Luando failed to find any sable, nationally and internationally, including the after invading the area, but he managed a and witness accounts repeatedly proved translocation and reintroduction of black daring nighttime escape walking for 60 kms wrong. It was Manuel who insisted he knew rhino to North Luangwa, Zambia, Okavango through the bush and swimming to safety where the last herds were, and in 2009 delta, Botswana, Majete Game Reserve, across the crocodile infested Luando river. he led conservationists to the site where Malawi and Mkomazi Game Reserve, He later returned to the abandoned reserve tracks were seen. Dung samples were Tanzania. with his family and monitored the last collected and the DNA proved to be that of She was instrumental in the Black Rhino antelope herds in his spare time. the giant sable. A few months later in that Range Expansion Project (BRREP) where For the past 45 years Luando Reserve very same spot the first bull was spotted by black rhino have been relocated out of the has evolved from a relatively well-protected helicopter and subsequently translocated Great Fish River Game Reserve and the conservation area, into a war zone and to Cangandala. Two years later he was transfrontier relocation of game from Kruger abandoned heavily poached territory. Today guarding three captured giant sables when a TUSK AWARD FOR CONSERVATION IN AFRICA — FINALISTS National Park to Limpopo National Park, the reserve is slowly recovering and the lion crept up to their makeshift pen. Manuel Mozambique. wildlife is returning. Manuel has been the climbed up a tree, but fell-down, bumping Cathy’s success has been totally through one consistent presence throughout and it’s his head so hard that today he still suffers Olivier Nsengimana Rachel McRobb her own efforts and as a woman she has quite possible that without his knowledge of headaches! had far greater challenges than most. She the local environment, personal commitment Now aged over seventy years old, is a clear example of the commitment and physical resilience, the giant sable Manuel regularly patrols and monitors the and future of young African leadership antelope would be extinct or beyond the area where three of the last five herds of Iconic endangered species often The notification that I was a finalist for losing this in South Luangwa and other parts in conservation in Africa: “I am driven point of recovery. giant sable survive, making him responsible receive a lot of recognition and the Tusk Award came as a deep of Zambia are simply enough for me to fight by the need to feel that I am making a When the war ended in 2002 he returned for approximately half of the remaining support but there are also lesser known surprise. It took all day for me to register the daily battles involved in running a wildlife difference and contributing meaningfully to to Luando. The Government didn’t reappoint population of this iconic and critically “smaller species that also need our help. “properly that I had been nominated — I read conservation NGO in Africa and managing conservation”. or deploy rangers into the reserve, so he endangered antelope. The driving force behind my work is a the email many times just to make sure they an anti-poaching unit. I am most proud of became a self-appointed informal, unpaid strong belief that the involvement of the had the right person! the fact that it’s a fully Zambian NGO and local population in conservation issues is It made me realise that there are so many fully Zambian staffed. the key to their success and sustainability. people out there who care about this planet, For our organisation, Conservation South Being a finalist for this award is who dedicate their lives to protecting it and Luangwa, being a Tusk finalist has helped confirmation that what we are doing is the different species that matter most to attain recognition that we are a committed making a difference. It shows me that there them. and serious conservation partner in Zambia are people out there around the world who The evening itself was magic and a thrill working hard to protect South Luangwa. support me and my team and this morale being in the presence of so many amazing In the future, I hope that it will continue boost will help us keep going through people. Meeting Sir David Attenborough is, to bring publicity to Zambia and the need the hard times when it is easy to lose of course, something I will never forget! We to protect Luangwa’s iconic wilderness, the motivation. Being a finalist has given me need people like this to highlight Africa’s work we do and of course help raise the the confidence, power and motivation to conservation challenges. They are doing much needed finances to do this. keep doing what I started to make sure I such an extraordinary job that without them achieve my aims. our task on the ground would be so much harder. I am one of those lucky people in life OLIVIER NSENGIMANA who finds fulfillment just being in wild places RACHEL McROBB Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association surrounded by wildlife. The possibility of Conservation South Luangwa
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It was with great happiness and pride that I Conservation in other accepted the Prince William Award for Conservation parts of the world and the ceremony was a wonderful night for me. The consists of talking to town “award is helping the POPOF to continue the tree planting “councils, drawing up legislation work in the fields of local communities and to sustain the or going out on a spring environmental education to the pygmy community. morning and counting birds. This year we have hosted the first groups of pygmy But Africa is on the frontline of ladies in the park to see the gorillas, their neighbours, for conservation. In Africa people the first time. I am sure the Award will help to convince are getting killed in the name of different people to support our long-term work to protect conservation. It’s hard, it’s tough the Grauer gorillas, their habitat and the local communities and the people who do it, who that live in the vicinity. are represented here tonight are true heroes and heroines. What they are protecting JOHN KAHEKWA is one of the great treasures Pole Pole Foundation of the world. African wildlife is special. Humanity started in Africa — it’s where we evolved. And once there existed the Being nominated for the awards was an incredible most extraordinary numbers honour and privilege; and also totally overwhelming! and visions of the wild world However nothing could have prepared me for the awards that has ever been. Only a “ceremony. The finalists all commented afterwards that had fragment of that remains. But it not been for all the amazing pictures and memories, it what a treasure it is — those would have felt like a dream. plains thronged with the great It was really inspiring to see how many people care megafauna, the great animals and how much time and effort is being put into raising of the world. And what survives awareness and funds for the conservation plight in Africa. now is just a fragment of what With the Award we have been able to improve radio there was. But how precious it communication throughout the reserve and provide proper is. What a vision it gives us of first aid kits for trauma situations for our rangers. This humanity’s past, of the world’s would not have been possible without Tusk. Winning the past. And how crucial it is that it Tusk award is my greatest achievement to date. has to be protected and should remain. And how grateful the rest of the world should be for CATHY DREYER what people in Africa are now Great Fish River Nature Reserve doing; for the dangers they are encountering; for the dedication they give; for the hard work they do day after day after day caring Winning the Tusk Game Ranger Award was for these last creatures. something that I never expected or dreamed I am humbled to be in the of. Attending the award ceremony in London was an same room as you from Africa, “amazing and unforgettable experience. It made me realise the nominees and winners who that the work I do is important, not only for Angolans but have come here, who represent also for people from other countries. Sharing a few days so many people in Africa who with other people from Africa doing similar work was like a are caring for the wildlife, not boost of energy for me. only for themselves but for the When I shared my stories from the trip with my whole population ofthis world. family were so happy. I could show them photos of the I am humbled to be in your ceremony, the Natural History Museum, a London presence and I thank you very Doubledecker, the River Thames and other icons that they much indeed not only for this will never see or experience. They had so many questions handsome trophy but for what that it took me more than a week to answer. you and Tusk, and for the This award is not only for me. I share this with my fellow people who support Tusk colleagues, the Sable Shepherds and we will improve are doing to this most precious our working conditions and obtain more uniforms and thing that the world possesses equipment. I do not go alone to patrol the Luando Nature — the wildlife of Africa. Reserve. We are always in small groups and we support each other. We share our food and our shelter. We share our stories and our dreams, particularly at night when we SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH set our camp and sleep under the trees observing the Broadcaster stars and the moon as our natural paintings.
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to nearby mangrove forests, seagrasses, Coaching for active and informed citizens. In this context, turtle nesting beaches or shallow coral reefs the primary objective of Coaching for Reaching the next generation where they are shown the natural wonders Conservation Conservation (C4C) is to inspire a generation that surround them in a scientific context. of ‘Kids Who Care’, not only about This is the first learning outside the themselves, but also about others and the classroom they have ever been exposed natural world around them. C4C’s unique to and it helps learning really come to ‘Learning from Wildlife’ model introduces life. Contemporary complex issues such Education is the wildlife as mentors Given that almost one quarter of the world’s population is aged between 10 and 24, as climate change are introduced with key to reaching to emulate and learn examples from around them used to make many other goals: YOUNG TUSKS from — to begin to vigorous efforts need to be made to encourage young people, as the future leaders and key concepts clear and familiar. it helps to break CYCLING FOR RANGERS create a relationship Often this is the first time they have the cycle of poverty of respect, empathy, decision makers of the world, to act at both local and global levels to protect endangered A group of four friends are cycling heard of the world decline in sea turtles, the through access to and a reason to 8,000km from Johannesburg to Nairobi wildlife. WORLD WILDLIFE DAY 2017 elusive sea cow (or Dugong) that inhabits better opportunities; it care. The use of raising funds and awareness for anti- their nearshore waters and the ecological plays a crucial role in sport as the vehicle poaching rangers across Africa in role of sharks. reducing inequalities for change, in partnership with For Rangers. This year’s World Wildlife Day theme At Tusk we engage with younger like Cycle of Life in 2008 and the London To Youth involved in the network don’t and fosters tolerance, conjunction with They felt a collective responsibility, was ‘Listen to the Young Voices’. generations worlwide to create awareness Cape Town expedition. just acquire conservation knowledge but leading to more this unique model as the next generation, to engage with Over one quarter of the world’s around conservation. In Africa this is through In the following pages we will hear from they begin on a new journey of personal peaceful societies; is a creative way and support conservation efforts across population is aged between 10 and 24 extensive environmental education and a number of our project partners in Africa development. Already Junior Ecoguards and it empowers of teaching about Africa and during their expedition they years. school development programmes. to see how they are reaching the next have successfully apprehended members people everywhere to critical conservation will visit ten parks to meet and interview In the UK the Charity engages with generation. of their communities intending to take sea live more sustainable issues through a rangers for a feature documentary on This generation represents our future schools and universities on wildlife And we will hear from three Young turtle eggs from nests and explained the and healthy lives process of learning their lives on the front-line. leaders that will be making important and environment issues and supports Tusk’s speaking about their concerns on the implications of their actions. benefitting both about animals, from decisions for the environment and awareness-raising initiatives led by our environment and how they are helping Tusk. After all, there is no better way for them and future animals. In this way natural resources. younger supporters across the continent communities to learn than from their own generations. C4C moves children from being kids who enlightened and passionate next generation. Environmental education, specifically, are told to care, to kids who genuinely care plays a vital role in raising awareness and about the natural world inspiring them to promoting behavioural change needed for act. C4C has reached over 10,000 children a sustainable future. It primarily aims to with its programmes; including short C3: approximately 300 youth between the ages National Parks staff and teachers to come PATRICIA DAVIS develop understandings, skills and values and long-term interventions for individual of 11 and 16 years old, has been funded and extend the programme! Director, C3 that will enable people to participate as students, classes and entire schools. Community-centred primarily by Tusk for the past four years. The Junior Ecoguards network fills a It has grown exponentially during that much-needed gap in the national education Education time from a small group of Scouts in the system and is therefore endorsed at the urban centre of Antsiranana, across the highest level by the Ministry of Education. north west of Madagascar to remote fishing It provides theoretical and practical training communities only reachable by boat and in environmental science, focusing on cattle cart. local fauna and flora, threats and potential Reaching the next generation is critical From 2017 it is set to spread to a further management actions. to successfully changing behaviour three northern provinces, impacting nearly As much learning in the classroom is by — no more so than in a country like 20% of the country. We aim to reach all rote, the most exciting element for young Madagascar, with a growth rate of of Madagascar’s 22 provinces and have people is the field skills training. Kids are over 2.5% and more than 60% of the already had many requests from NGOs, taken out by C3 staff and their teachers population under the age of 25. The Malagasy State identifies education and training as processes intended to “prepare the individual for an active life integrated in the social, economic and cultural development of the country”. The barriers to achieving this include lack of resources to build schools, train and pay teachers, provide access to education and even information, in remote areas. This is where small NGOs can have ABOVE Children playing the food-web game on a C4C bush-day programme an impact, especially when endangered species conservation is their aim; by default they operate in remote, impoverished areas. In tandem with our community-based species and habitat conservation work in northern Madagascar, we have focused heavily on empowering youth at primary, LOOKING TO secondary and tertiary levels in remote villages as well as urban centres. GROW YOUR BUSINESS Once the young are engaged with conservation issues and firstly have an INTERNATIONALLY? understanding on how local people’s decisions are affecting the long-term To find out how DHL can help you take your business availability of natural resources, and to the world visit www.dhlguide.co.uk/e-commerce secondly are armed with facts, figures and or call us on 0844 248 0675 ultimately simple conservation solutions, a community-wide momentum for change is generated. Our ‘Junior Ecoguard’ network, now with a core membership of ABOVE Junior Ecoguards receiving their Tusk-funded educational materials
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Based on our studies, C4C does not only Conservation the areas surrounding the Lower Zambezi enhance the participants’ knowledge National Park to CLZ Base Camp on and understanding of the importance Lower Zambezi the border of the park. Through lessons, of maintaining a healthy ecosystem and game-drives and boat cruises, and since our interdependence with nature, it also 2016 — writing and presenting their own enhances their ability to develop personal conservation poems — they learn about skills and capabilities of knowledge and the geography, biology and ecology of their empowerment. The Lower Zambezi is currently local environment and why it is important The effectiveness of C4C — and experiencing exceptionally high levels to protect it. Community buy-in and the programmes like it — to affect change in of poaching, particularly for ivory. understanding that the wildlife and natural individuals is proven, but it has emerged Poaching pressure has escalated in resources need to be protected for the well- that past participants feel disempowered by recent years — a trend that is felt being of future generations plays a central being the minority who want to take care across Zambia and southern Africa. role in wildlife protection. of their environment. They report feeling In addition, large-scale deforestation When we observe the behaviours of overwhelmed by the majority who did not on the outskirts of the park is decimating children who have been through the EEP have access to the C4C education. the area’s natural forests. While the heart at CLZ, we can often see a change of “At school, I want to tell children to pick of these environmental issues needs to be attitude and sometimes life decisions can up papers. I want to teach them why it is addressed at the level of the government be made from their experience with Besa, important to take care of our environment. and on the international arena, there the conservation clubs and curriculum. If we pollute it, the litter runs into the rivers is potential for small organisations like Some leave CLZ Base Camp aspiring to and then the animals eat the litter and die. Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ) to make become wildlife rangers or tourist guides. We are all connected to each other and we a difference at the more local level. For example, CLZ’s very own Operations need to take care of our things otherwise we Through its Environmental Education Manager, Rabson Tembo who is responsible will not have a good life”. Programme (EEP), CLZ looks to create a for all wildlife protection activities, had his The children are calling for help. For generation of local community members passion ignited by a trip to CLZ’s Education Africa’s future to be sustainable, they say that actively seeks to employ sustainable Centre. It is individuals like these who that more people should have access to resources, to use practices and to work become environmental stewards for their quality environmental education that inspires closely with the local wildlife protection communities, kick-starting a domino effect them to care. authority to protect the Lower Zambezi of changing attitudes amongst their peers. wildlife and environment. Run by Besa Kaoma since 2010, a Zambian passionate LESLEY McNUTT about education and the environment, the CESCA COOKE Director, Coaching for Conservation EEP brings children and teachers from Assistant General Manager, CLZ
BELOW Getting close to the Zambezi’s wildlife on an education day
ABOVE Malawian children standing up for wildlife
to Tusk for their increased support that has short film entitled ‘Elephant: I Miss You’, Lilongwe Wildlife Trust helped us to achieve this. This growth has inspired by the true story of Lawi, one of come through our expansion around the Malawi’s most famous singers. Intended protected areas of Nyika, Vwaza, Kasungu for a Chichewa speaking audience, it is set and Salima, where we in the future, and “We will conserve only what we love. have also trained 249 uses storytelling as We will love only what we understand. teachers, community YOUNG TUSKS a grandfather shares We will understand only what we are scouts and local LOVE BRAND & CO his experiences and taught.” leaders through our Oliver Tomalin of Love Brand & Co. has sadness at the loss of These are the words of Baba Dioum, capacity building been a keen supporter of Tusk since he elephants. from Senegal and it’s the first principle that programmes that have launched his swimwear brand in aid of The film will our educators learn when they join Lilongwe helped to engage the wildlife. be shown on TV, Wildlife Trust in Malawi. wider community. From sales of ‘Trunks For Trunks’ and as part of our The Lilongwe team aim to inspire people Anecdotally, the the company donates five percent of education outreach to value and protect Malawi’s natural response from the its revenue to charity partners including on our pedal power heritage for the benefit of both people and communities has been Tusk. It is Oliver’s mission to make cinema reaching rural wildlife. Rescuing wild animals and sending very encouraging — sure he is not part of the generation communities that do ivory traffickers to prison is essential work we have received that allows these iconic creatures to not have electricity. in the short-term. However, this needs wildlife crime reports disappear from the wild. Children are the to be coupled with a longer-term vision directly because of our For Oliver it is important to make future leaders and to put a stop to the human activities like outreach that have led conservation cool. “The global message have a huge role to deforestation and illegal wildlife trade which to convictions, and needs to be ‘It’s cool to protect wildlife play in protecting the are responsible for the devastating wildlife one school organised rather than persecute it.’” environment. It is our declines we are seeing today. To achieve a march which was hope that teaching this, we believe that changing the attitudes featured on the local and connecting and in turn the behaviour of the next radio. In turn another two other schools them to nature will increase their knowledge generation are key, so that they become followed suit. and instil a passion that will inspire them conservation ambassadors, and guardians Using different forms of communication to protect the environment now and in the of Malawi’s wildlife and natural resources. alongside our outreach programmes, such future. In 2016, our tailored conservation as local media or engaging high profile education programmes reached almost individuals as conservation ambassadors, 35,871 children from 576 schools, up 30% have also turned out to be a powerful CLEMENT MANJAALERA since 2015, and we are extremely grateful tool for us. This year we have launched a Education Officer, Lilongwe Wildlife Trust
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Lewa Education PACE – Pan African stoves, rainwater-harvesting, compost- forward. As conservationists, we have a making, etc. PACE has so far reached duty to ensure they are provided with the Programme Conservation more than 500,000 school children across knowledge and skills to make the right 34 countries. In January alone, thanks to decisions, to judge which traditions need Education the generous support of DHL and Mail to be adjusted and which technologies to Workshop, more than 700 PACE packs master and employ. We need to reinforce (books, CD, DVD & poster) were delivered appreciation of their wildlife and natural The impact of education in not only to new and long-standing partners in ten habitats and build their conservation values. transforming individuals, but also an different countries. To this end, in October a PACE team entire society, cannot be overstated. Education is so important because it Evaluation of three years of PACE from four countries attended the EEASA In developing countries, ploughing gives us the skills we need to realise university training in Cameroon showed (Environmental Education Association resources into creating and expanding when there is a problem, and what we success in three areas — the use of of Southern Africa) conference in educational opportunities has been proven can do to solve it. This is especially true healthier, fuel-efficient cooking technology, Johannesburg. They show-cased PACE to have the greatest role in ending extreme with conservation. improved waste management and recycling. resources and training initiatives and poverty. Numerous studies have linked Working in Cameroon I have met only Fifty percent of staff and students adopted connected to key actors working on higher levels of education to reduced cases a few people who knew that there are only improved cooking stoves in their home education policy in schools and teacher of preventable diseases and illnesses, nine countries in the world where gorillas kitchen ‘after learning from the practical’. training colleges across the continent; child marriages, maternal deaths and early live wild — most assumed that gorillas Using these stoves means that fewer trees people who are informing, reviewing and pregnancies. In communities neighbouring lived everywhere. When I explain that there are cut down, less habitat is degraded, developing school and teacher training Lewa, we have especially witnessed the are less than 300 Cross-River gorillas, and kitchens are healthier and fuel bills are curricula, and others who are improving role that education plays in giving children a that two-thirds of those live in western reduced. the effectiveness of classroom teaching. choice to forge their own paths — offering Cameroon, they say “then we need to look PACE has also been successful in Delegates from Botswana, Namibia, them opportunities to explore their talents, after them” — and they mean it. They just sharing win-win solutions to human-wildlife Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, achieve their dreams and realise their didn’t know. In Britain, most of us know conflict, teaching communities how to Zimbabwe, Malawi and Nigeria requested potential. that many song birds and even the humble protect their livestock or use deterrents to and received PACE resources during the I believe that education creates a greater hedgehog are endangered and we know keep predators away. Human-wildlife conflict conference. PACE Champions provide sense of knowledge about ourselves and what we can do to help; we know because is a common reason for local communities undergraduate courses for trainee teachers society. It is through our partnerships with conservationists have found ways to not to support conservation — when in Central Africa and the National Teacher organisations like Tusk that we have been educate us. elephants damage crops or wild cats prey Training Institute (Ecole Normale) in able to have a significant impact. There is a desperate need for on livestock a frequent response has been Madagascar — as well as In-Service teacher The Lewa Education Programme (LEP) conservation education in Africa, because to kill the wildlife. In a recent evaluation of training. was established with the aim of there are so many people who don’t know PACE project partners 93% of responses PACE makes a difference, but we need making conservation benefits tangible what they can or should be doing. They are noted that either ‘no-one’ or ‘not many to do much more, we need our courses to to communities that live side-by-side not against conservation, they simply lack people’ were applying techniques to deter reach all teachers and our resources to be in with wildlife. We saw an opportunity information. elephants from crop raiding prior to PACE all schools, right across Africa. ● to substantiate why it makes sense to Tusk and Siren Conservation Education’s interventions, but 46% noted that ‘a lot of participate in conservation. longstanding PACE initiative provides people do’ after learning from PACE case The programme, now in its fifteenth year, training and a series of stimulating films studies. Deterrents include using sounds or has become the greatest way in which we and printed materials to teachers, teaching substances like bells or chilli peppers. PENNY FRASER demonstrate tangible benefits of protecting colleges and community educators. It Young people in Africa are proud of their PACE, Coordinator endangered species to local people, and introduces a much greater understanding nationality, and proud to be African; they in return, the conservancy has recorded of issues such as soil, woodland, water love and are proud of their heritage and tremendous successes in conservation. and waste management, climate change traditions in ways that most youngsters and human-wildlife conflict, as well as in the West are not. Young Africans also
Improved educational very practical ways of tackling common value education, they work hard to learn BELOW The PACE educational materials being facilities for more than 11,000 children environmental problems through fuel-saving and believe that education will take them distributed in the Cameroon In 2004, the conservancy supported seven neighbouring schools. This number has more than quadrupled in just 13 years. Lewa now supports 21 schools in its immediate neighbourhood and 10 others across the ABOVE Parents and pupils gather in the Tusk-funded Kilimani dining room community conservancies to the north. Collectively 11,000 children now benefit support, and more than 75% of these have to Lewa-sponsored schools whilst also from new classrooms, toilets, libraries, completed tertiary education. teaching the students valuable digital skills. teachers’ houses, dining halls, kitchens, Today, this programme has set up 13 fences, water and irrigation projects. Spearheading use centres across the Lewa sponsored schools of innovative technology with an enrolment of 2,010 students. Initiation of the In 2009, we established a Digital Literacy Conservation Adult Literacy Programme Programme with the aim of using technology Kenya, and Africa at large, is rapidly Recognising an opportunity to further to spread knowledge on conservation developing. Young Africans have an appetite demonstrate how conservation can help for knowledge that not only enables them to transform lives, we have created an Adult provide solutions for problems affecting the Literacy Programme to extend basic YOUNG TUSKS continent, but also to become key players education to men and women from the CASSIA STUDDARD on a global platform. neighbouring areas. Today, from just 10 Cassia is a ten year old supporter with a Many African youth understand the role learners in 2005, the programme now has passion for wildlife, especially elephants. that education has in providing them with a nine centres with 435 learners enrolled. She has asked her parents to donate voice, a choice, and opportunities to realise her pocket money to Tusk and has also their dreams and Tusk has been, and still is, Bursary sponsorship for children approached her school to help fundraise pivotal to ensuring that it’s an agenda we are Alongside infrastructural and curriculum for Tusk. all focusing on and driving into perpetuity. development in the schools, LEP also offers Cassia hopes that she will be able to sponsorship to students based on both “show elephants to my children when I FAITH RUNGA need and academic potential. In the past grow up and I want to do all I can”. Head of Education Programme, Lewa Wildlife 13 years, over 700 students have received Conservancy
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Last year’s events
Audi Polo Challenge Princes William and Harry participated in their first charity polo match of the season in May, to support the work of both Tusk and Sentebale. Guests were treated to dinner and a hilarious cabaret by longstanding Tusk Patron, the impressionist Rory Bremner, followed by a fantastic performance by the Grammy-nominated singer Ellie Goulding, who generously donated her fee to Audley Travel Lecture in aid of Tusk the charities. Backed by the generous sponsorship Tusk is extremely grateful of Audley Travel, in May Tusk to both Princes, Audi UK and welcomed 900 guests to hear Ellie Goulding for their very Levison Wood, the British explorer, City Yacht Race generous support of Tusk’s writer and photographer, talk about conservation work at this Investec Asset Management nominated ‘Walking the Himalayas and other event. Tusk to benefit from the City Yacht adventures’. Race, held at the Royal Yacht Squadron, A lively Q&A and a popular meet and Cowes on 17 September. greet followed. Our special thanks go to Our thanks go to the interns Safaricom Marathon Audley Travel and Levison Wood for their and teams from Aberdeen AM, tremendous support, which resulted a Tusk once again hosted the charity’s Schroders, IFDS, JP Morgan, Columbia substantial donation to Tusk. annual Running Wild event at the Threadneedle, Henderson, Standard Life Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. Investments and IAM. Over 1,300 runners were joined by Eluid Kipchoge, the Olympic marathon gold Harold Benjamin Solicitors Ball medallist, who got into the spirit of the event Thanks to Keith Flavell and Stephen David Yarrow ‘Wild Encounters’ Private View and ran for fun, helping to raise funds to The Tusk Conservation Lecture Grice at Harold Benjamin Solicitors A private view of David Yarrow’s ‘Wild Encounters’ transform lives through conservation and at the Royal Geographical Society for choosing Tusk as the beneficiary for exhibition proved popular with Tusk supporters. community projects across the country. their annual ball, held last November at Gladys Kalema Zikusoka from The stunning black and white images captured The Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire. Conservation through Public Health in Bwindi the essence of David’s work, featuring some of the This year we will be hosting teams from Rory Bremner performed the Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, gave world’s most endangered species, cultures and Artemis, BlackRock, Investec Bank, Vitol cabaret, in his usual hilarious style and a thought-provoking lecture last October, remote landscapes. David’s long-term commitment and EMSO in Kenya. They will join people hosted the auction which resulted in a kindly sponsored by Artemis Investment LLP has benefitted Tusk enormously and the charity is from 30 countries who are all raising money £30,000 donation being made to the and Painted Wolf Wines. hugely grateful for his generous support. All the author for conservation work in this internationally Charity. Many thanks Rory! Thanks also to Volcano Safaris for royalties from the ‘Wild Encounters’ book will also be renowned event. offering up an auction prize to the area donated to Tusk. where Gladys works, including a unique For information on David Yarrow’s forthcoming visit to the Mountain Gorillas that live in the exhibitions and news please visit http://davidyarrow. region. photography/@David-Yarrow Hamish Mackie Sculpture Exhibition In Conversation with Ronnie Wood Many thanks to Hamish and Laura Tusk’s longest standing patron, Rolling of music, art and Africa. Martin Bayfield Mackie for their continued support of Stones’ guitarist, Ronnie Wood, hosted concluded the event with an auction of two Tusk at last Autumn’s exhibition. a fascinating evening at ultra-modern of Ronnie’s art pieces: the celebrated rhino Hamish featured his recent collection, venue, The Ham Yard Hotel, in May. sculpture, Spike, the rhino he had met at inspired by his trips to Northern Kenya Ronnie was joined on stage by Tusk Lewa Wildlife Conservancy during a trip in and Namibia at The Mall Galleries and CEO, Charlie Mayhew, to discuss his love the 90s and The Tusk Portfolio, four of invited Tusk to host their own private Ronnie’s beautiful view donating a generous percentage of wildlife drawings sales to the Charity. especially designed Thanks to Artemis Investment for the Charity. Management LLP and Justerini & Brooks Thanks to Justerini for their generous support on the night. & Brooks for IT’S RARE TO ACCESS SUCH A POWERFUL Thanks must also go to Lycetts providing the wine FINE WINE PORTFOLIO and Steppes Travel who also donated and Lyceum Capital proceeds of their private view to Tusk as for underwriting such Justerini & Brooks. Portfolio, expertise and personal service. well. a splendid evening. Justerinis.com/discover
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Join us for 2017
June July September November November
Next Generation Prudential Ride London 100 Tusk Clay Shoot The Tusk Ball The Tusk Conservation Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society Stand by for details on the Tusk Project WHEN Friday 22nd September WHEN Sunday 30th July WHEN Thursday 2nd November event at ‘Pergola on the Roof’, Shepherd’s WHEN Thursday 23rd November WHERE Royal Berkshire Shooting School Bush, on Wednesday 28th June. Come and WHERE London WHERE The Roundhouse, London WHERE The Royal Geographical Society, celebrate being the next generation of Tusk TIMING 9.30 am — 3.30 pm supporter. Please contact [email protected] CONTACT [email protected] CONTACT [email protected] London for more details. CONTACT [email protected] Take part in the London Marathon on wheels Join us for this year’s Black Tie event CONTACT [email protected] this summer! Join Tusk and 25,000 fellow on November 2nd. Champagne The Tusk Clay Shoot promises to be an Michael Keigwin and Charles Tumwesigye riders in a cycling challenge like no other on excellent day of fun and sport within the reception, Dinner, auction and 100 miles of traffic-free roads. entertainment at this world-famous from Uganda will present ‘A New Dawn’, a superb setting of the Royal Berkshire talk on the Murchison Falls National Park July The ride starts in Queen Elizabeth Shooting School. music venue. Olympic Park, following a route with leg- Generously sponsored by Artemis which has been under extreme poaching Following a very successful day in 2016, pressure and challenges from international Tusk ‘Not For Sale’ Garden testing climbs through the capital and into Investment Management, Jaguar Land Tusk looks forward to welcoming familiar industry, but has emerged as a conservation RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Surrey’s stunning countryside, finishing back Rover and Justerini & Brooks. faces and new guests to the fourth annual and development success story. Show 2017 in central London on The Mall. Please contact Adele as soon as event. Bring a team and have a great day Five years ago Michael was called by Contact us to secure one of our Golden out of the office! you can to reserve your place! In association with Cotswold Wildlife Park & Bond places available for our supporters! friends at the Uganda WildlifeAuthority. The Gardens message was clear: ‘Resign from your job in London and come home. Murchison is in WHEN Tuesday 4th to Sunday 9th July dire trouble and desperately needs help.’ WHERE Hampton Court Palace, Surrey With the help of close partners and the Uganda Conservation Foundation TIMING 10.00 am — 7.30 pm the team planned, raised funds, rolled up their sleeves and sorted out problem after CONTACT www.rhs.org.uk/shows problem. The conceptual garden is an exciting This is a talk about determination, facing initiative for Tusk. Designed by Mark Whyte up to limitations and finding solutions to from Ferguson & Whyte Garden Design, protect one of Africa’s key wildlife areas. ● The evocative garden will deliver a powerful message about the continuing plight of the African elephant. Featuring a ring of tusk arches, symbolising the scale of the poaching crisis, sounds of the African savannah will play around the tusks while arid grasses, plants and acacia trees will help create a real sense of Africa. Tusk is delighted to be collaborating with Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens as sponsor of the garden. This unique garden will be available for sale to raise further funds for Tusk.
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Tusk project partner How we use donations distribution by African region How Tusk makes a difference ● Support costs 17% ● Africa Wide 7.5% ● Programme costs 83% ● Central Africa 7.5% ● West Africa 10% ● Southern Africa 34% The challenges facing the people and wildlife of Africa UK and USA allowing the charity to make a real impact ● East Africa 41% are greater than ever. across the continent. However where Tusk is involved we continue to Here are some key facts and figures about how your witness significant progress that provides real hope for generous support and partnerships made a difference the future. 2016 produced record results both in the last year. Programme funding allocation Source of funds
● Publications & Awareness 12% ● Legacy 1% ● Promoting Education 17% ● Gift Aid 2% ● Supporting Communities 24% ● Endowment Income 1% Over ● Protecting Wildlife 47% ● Corporate 10% ● Charitable Trusts 9% 2 ● Fundraising/Events 14%
600,000km 1,000,000 ● Donations 63% land protected by Tusk-funded projects people benefit indirectly through the work of Tusk’s project partners across the continent
Our combined global revenue reached
black rhino-focused Tusk invests in projects, all have 170 7 increasing populations US$ 11m US$ 9.16m funding disbursed to project partners in 2016 National Parks, National Reserves and community conservancies under active Tusk is protecting Tusk conservation management wildlife across the provided grant continent, totaling 58 support to 72 key species are the populations of conservation focus of Tusk-supported elephant, rhino, PACE now used by over projects and 43 projects carnivores and great apes initiatives across 21 countries 200,000 Tusk project-partners students, teachers, teacher with trainers, community educators, and wildlife professionals, plus their families and 460 wider communities, in 34 schools African countries
With your generous support we can make an even greater difference.
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We are extremely Charitable Trusts ROYAL PATRON STAFF AND ADVISORS DEVELOPMENT BOARD (ADVISORY) AMBASSADORS HRH The Duke of Cambridge KG KT QC grateful to the Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust, Bill Hope Charitable Trust, Chestnut Trust, Douglas Heath Eves Charitable GLOBAL CEO Iain Rawlinson (CHAIRMAN) Philip Cayford Dr Samantha Corsellis following individuals, Trust, Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust, Golden Bottle Trust, H Steven & P E Wood Charitable Trust, Henderson HON LIFE PRESIDENT Charles Mayhew MBE Nick Bullen Philip Buscombe Reggie Heyworth companies, Foundation, Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation, IWT Challenge Fund, JCJK Trust, Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Dr Sir Christopher Lever Bt. UK Mark Franklin James Lindsay charitable trusts and Trust, John & Jeremy Sacher Charitable Trust, JSK Trust, Lambert Family Charitable Fund, Laurie and Gillian Marsh HON VICE–PRESIDENTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Stuart Graham Pierre-Andre Mourgue D’Algue foundations for their Charitable Trust, Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust, Lever Trust, Lindeth Charitable Trust, Longleat Safari Park, Sir Timothy Ackroyd Bt. Teresa Graham Iain Rawlinson Dan Bucknell generous support of Marjorie Coote Animal Charity Trust, Mitchell Trust, Orr Mackinton Foundation, Patterson Charitable Trust, Perivoli Philip Ihenacho TUSK USA INC. PATRONS our work. Without Philanthropy, Perivoli Trust, Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation, Prism – The Gift Fund, Rhodes Charity, Royal HEAD OF FUNDRAISING Julian Knott Wendy and Henry Breck TRUSTEES Adele Emmett these donations, Foundation, Rufford Foundation, Schutz-Engel Charitable Trust, Scott (Eredine) Charitable Trust, Shanley Foundation, Deborah Meaden Glenda and John Burkhart UK HEAD OF FINANCE Pierre-André Mourgue D’Algue Suzanne and Fred Fehsenfeld and gifts-in-kind, it Sisi & Savita Charitable Trust, Smiling Tiger Charitable Trust, Toby and Regina Wyles Charitable Trust The Hon Stephen Watson (CHAIRMAN) would be difficult Julie Cure Andrew Pitts-Tucker Mindy and Thomas Fortin Glenda Burkhart Alan Rogers Mary-Anne and Mark Franklin for Tusk to achieve Companies Dr Susan Canney EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO CEO, AND MEDIA CO-ORDINATOR Kate Silverton-Heron Paul and Sonia Jones as much as it does Penelope Chilvers, Nelson Russell Holdings, Advance Handling, Anadarko Kenya, Artemis Asset Management LLP, Patrick Harverson Mary-Jane Attwood Lord Anthony St. John of Bletso Martha and Joe Linhares Phillip Ihenacho each year in Africa. Audi, Audley Travel, Avios, BeyondMe Team, BlackRock Investment Management, British Airways, Bryers LLP, OBE Liz and Craig Philips PHILANTHROPY MANAGER Chris Townsend Christie’s, Claridge’s Hotel, Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens, David Yarrow Photography, DHL Worldwide Express, Timothy Jackson Richard Turpin Alan Rogers Deborah Meaden Anna Hunt We are also Electric Pencil Company, Emma Bridgewater Ltd., EMSO Asset Management Ltd, Endemol UK, Eton College, David Yarrow Steve Tisch Alexander Rhodes FUNDRAISING AND DATA CO-ORDINATOR grateful to all our Falko Regional Aircraft Ltd, Farrer Digital, Fenchurch Advisory Partners, Financial Times, Gerald Webster, Nick Tims Coralie Hyde PATRONS OF TUSK supporters, too Getty Images, Harold Benjamin, Hector & Queen, HSBC Private Bank, Huawei Technologies Ltd., ICAP, Inkerman, Mark Tyndall FUNDRAISING AND OFFICE ASSISTANT Zoe Ball numerous to Investec Asset Management, Investec Bank, ITV, J & C Voyagers, Justerini & Brooks, Land Rover, Love Brand & Co., Zoe White Rory Bremner mention here, Lyceum Capital, Mail Workshop, Mantis Group, McKinsey & Co., Mishcon De Reya, Moët & Chandon, Mothercare, USA John Challis BOOKKEEPER whose donations New Holland Agriculture, North South Wines Ltd, Painted Wolf Wines, PJ Pan, Pol Roger, Royal Berkshire Shooting Charles Mayhew MBE (PRESIDENT) Ben Fogle Wendy Breck (CO-CHAIR) Poppy Ellaway make an enormous School, S2 Asset Management, Saffrey Champness, Schroders, Scott Dunn, Spectrecom, Spun Gold TV, David Gower OBE Glenda Burkhart (CO-CHAIR) MEDIA RELATIONS CONSULTANT Bear Grylls difference to Tusk’s Standard Life, Steppes Group, Tiffany & Co., Tullow Oil, Ultimate Travel Company, Waitrose, Woburn Safari Park Sarah Fairbairn Gloria Ward Dr Iain Douglas Hamilton CBE projects. Susan Fehsenfeld Individuals Dr Haruhisa Handa Mark Franklin USA Annabel Heseltine David & Angela Aird, Sue Albersey, Felix Appelbe, Tom & Sara Attwood, The Earl of Aylesford, John Ayton, John Heminway EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Brian Jackman Timothy Jackson Richard Barclay, David Barnes, Alice Beaney, Goetz Bechtolsheimer, Stan Beckers, The Duke and Duchess of Ellen O’Connell Katherine Jenkins OBE John Lukas Bedford, Alexander Bethell, Johnny Beveridge, Christopher Birrell, Hew Blair, Nigel Bliss, Johnnie Boden, DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Simon King OBE Stef Bogaars, Jeremy & Emma Borg, Nathalie Boulle, Sarah Bourghardt, Henrietta Bradshaw, Andrew Brear, Lydia Rouse Madeleine, Lady Kleinwort Mark Knopfler Rory Bremner, Bill Brock, Andrew Brown, Richard Brown, Louise Brown, David Brown & Miss B Winton, DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS Mrs S Bulman, Will Burrard-Lucas, Philip Buscombe, Richard Buxton, Mark Cameron, David Cannon, Jo Cantelo, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Dr Richard Leakey (KENYA) Alan Carr, Jim Chapman, Fahreen Chaudhry, Yvonne Clark, Ben Compton Welstead, Nick Cook, Phil Couchman, Debra Stein Ali MacGraw Deborah Meaden Robin Creswell, Frances Critoph, Nina Crowe, Eric Cuthbertson, Sarah Davies, Philip De Picciotto, Odine de FINANCE MANAGER Maryann Mullins Cynthia Moss (KENYA) Rothschild, Matthew Dobbs, Amanda Dooley, Christine Doughty, Hendrik & Lorette du Toit, Andrew Dunn, Lord George Percy Gill Edmonds, Judy Egginton, Neil Evans, Nick Evans, Sam Excell, Rob & Sarah Fairbairn, Paul Farmer, Katie Farrer, Lord Robin Russell KENYA Cindy Farrington, Catherine Faulks, Robert & Paula Fentener Van Vlissengen, Christopher Fenton, Jonathan Field, Dame Daphne Sheldrick (KENYA) DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMES Janet Field, David Flanagan, Michael Flatley, Keith Flavell, Joachim Fleury, Donatella Flick, Georgie Fordham, Sarah Watson Kate Silverton-Heron Mark & Marnie Franklin, Jean-Marc Fraysse, Robert French, Paul & Abagail Gardiner, Hans Georgeson, David Glick, Pam St Clement ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMES Thomas Goody, Rob Gordon, Stephen Gosztony, Rosy Gounaris Milner, Stuart & Teresa Graham, Bear Grylls, Joss Stone Sarah Davies Sir Christopher Thompson Bt. 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