Join the herd, save the species

Created in 1985 by Gérard Pasanisi, the Wildlife Conservation Foundation of Tanzania aims to protect Tanzania's unique wildlife heritage.

With its 12 national parks and numerous Game Reserves, Tanzania has one of the unique ecosystems of the world and hosts one of the largest concentrations of elephants, making it a prime target for poachers. The Government of Tanzania assumes sole protection of this common heritage, in the tradition handed down by President Julius Nyerere through his famous Arusha Declaration.

Thanks to the Wildlife Conservation Foundation of Tanzania and local authorities, the two main poaching networks in Tanzania but also in Kenya and Mozambique were dismantled.

Despite this protection, the elephants disappear into the culpable indifference of all the international powers combined. If tomorrow the media would announce that this giant animal that leaves its huge imprint on the dusty earth, the African Elephant, has disappeared, would you remain indifferent?

It is critical that we save this species from extinction

Elephant poaching, engaged in a cruel way, is the greatest threat to elephants’ survival. To fuel the ivory illegal trade, it has increased dramatically these last years:

From 1989 to 2020, more than 90,000 elephants were killed.

Men are fighting out in the field to protect them, sometimes risking their lives. It is a real Ivory War that is being waged out there and we need your support to allow their actions to continue.

“When I saw poaching ravage that the government couldn’t handle, lacking resources, I immediately felt the need to commit to the cause of elephants.”

— GÉRARD PASANISI
Founder of the Wildlife Conservation Foundation of Tanzania