The African Conservation Fund

African Conservation Fund has been helping to raise funds for elephant research in the Tanzania-Kenya borderlands. Last year we reported on the first collared elephant, named Lorna, and the wealth of information she is providing through a special GPS-equipped tracking collar.

We just received this report from the GIS team at African Conservation Centre in Nairobi, confirming that Lorna and her herd are preferring the community-established Game Reserve in the Olkiramatian-Shompole region of the South Rift.

"We are gearing ourselves for another round of collaring in June, hopefully of two bulls and one more female. We wanted to update you on how Lorna was doing almost 2 years after being collared. Peter has put together the attached images of Lornas movement for the periods January to March 2008, and for the Month of April 08.  We will be looking into analyzing various attributes of her movement as the database builds up. 
Regards
The GIS team, African Conservation Centre"

Click here for a larger image of the map. 

Special thanks to the Searle/Branham family for donating the funds for one of the new collars.

Recognizing the gravity of climate change, the African Conservation Centre in Nairobi, in partnership with the African Conservation Fund in the U.S., is collaborating with the Missouri Botanical Garden, University of York, the University of California San Diego and national institutions in Kenya and Tanzania to assess the threat of global warming to wildlife and people in the  Kenya-Tanzania borderlands.  Photo: The team at a planning session in Amboseli earlier this year.

We're pleased to offer for download our 2007 Annual Report, with details on our funds raised, projects supported, strategy for the coming years, and special thanks to all our donors.

 Please click here to download a 1.5 mb screen-version PDF. (Contact us, above left, if you prefer to receive a printed or a print-quality PDF, which is 17 mb.)

Congratulations to Beth Pinson of Vancouver, WA - winner of the grand prize in our Adventure Raffle - a new Chaser Trailer, donated by America's finest builder of rugged camping trailers for off-highway use, Adventure Trailers topped off with an Eezi-Awn folding rooftop tent from Equipt Expedition Outfitters . You can watch the final drawing via webcast at:

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Click here for more about this exciting raffle, and about our great supporters:

 Sponsors: Adventure Trailer, Equipt Expedition Outfitters, Overland Journal
Supporters:  Expedition Exchange, Roemer Off-Road, Baja Overland Vehicle Expedition Equipment,  Utah 4-Wheel Drive Club, and DesertDude Films.

Many thanks to these great businesses and people.

When an individual or corporation invests funds in a startup enterprise, we call it venture capitalism.

African Conservation Fund and our partners in East Africa are investing in enterprises that promote both community and ecosystem health -  a strategy we're calling Venture Conservation.

Venture Conservation features exciting projects in which Venture Conservationists can invest dollars that not only directly save wildlife but some of which can also be linked to things like carbon offsets or a fabulous safari vacation.