Top conservation NGOs protecting African wildlife.

Africa’s wild animals are struggling under the pressures of human wildlife conflict, habitat loss, and poaching. Around the world every day, passionate, like-minded people are working to preserve and protect Africa’s magnificent wildlife. You can support these efforts, too.


Here is a breakdown of some of the top conservation NGOs committed to conserving Africa’s incredible wildlife. Check out these organizations and see how you can support them.

Game Rangers International

Game Rangers International works in Zambia alongside the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) and local communities to protect Zambia's wildlife and wild spaces. The organization has been active in Zambia since 2008 and embraces a holistic approach to conservation, empowering frontline Rangers and supporting Rangers across three core thematic areas: Resource Protection, Community Outreach and Wildlife Rescue. Visit their website here.

Reteti Elephant Sanctuary

The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Kenya is proud to be one of the first community-owned and run elephant sanctuaries. It is situated in the remote Mathews Range—among Kenya’s second largest elephant population—and takes in orphaned and abandoned elephant calves, with an aim to release them back to the wild herds adjoining the Sanctuary. Visit their website here.

Project Rhino

Project Rhino is a rhino-focused association that brings together leading conservation NGOs, private and community-owned reserves, rhino owners, anti-poaching security specialists, and a provincial government conservation body toward the common goal of fighting wildlife crime. Together with South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Project Rhino reserves are collectively responsible for the protection of the world’s largest rhino population, as well as the most genetically diverse white rhino population. Visit their website here.

Ulinzi Africa Foundation

The Ulinzi Africa Foundation is East Africa’s first non-profit focusing on ranger welfare, facilitation, and empowerment. The foundation works primarily in Kenya’s Tana Delta ecosystem. It engages with the local communities to sensitize them to the importance of wildlife and environmental preservation and trains rangers across Kenya in life-saving first aid, field communication, and tracking skills. It also responds to any reports of injured or trapped wildlife in urban areas as well as rural zones. Visit their website here.

Rhino 911

Rhino 911 provides emergency helicopter rescue to rhinos injured or orphaned due to poaching and other dangers. It has responded to over 140 calls for help since its inception and has worked heavily to prevent the extinction of these amazing creatures. When you donate to Rhino 911, you are not just saving the life of one animal, but also investing in a future for rhinos around the world. Visit their website here.

Big Life Foundation

Using innovative conservation strategies and collaborating closely with local communities, partner NGOs, national parks, and government agencies, Big Life seeks to protect and sustain East Africa’s wildlife and wild lands, including one of the greatest populations of elephants left in East Africa. Visit their website here.

Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust

The Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust aims to protect the legendary ecosystems and astounding biodiversity of East Africa through conservation efforts that directly benefit wildlife, wilderness, and the local Maasai communities. Visit their website here.

Amboseli Trust for Elephants

The Amboseli Trust for Elephants aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures through scientific research, training, community outreach, public awareness, and advocacy. Visit their website here.

Ol Pejeta Conservancy

The Ol Pejeta Conservancy is home to the largest black rhino sanctuary and is the only place in Kenya to see chimpanzees. It works to conserve wildlife and biodiversity, contribute to economic growth, and advocate for change. Visit their website here.

Save the Elephants

Save the Elephants’ mission is to secure a future for elephants and to sustain the beauty and ecological integrity of the places they live, to promote man’s delight in their intelligence and the diversity of their world, and to develop a tolerant relationship between the two species. Visit their website here.

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is the heart of wildlife conservation, sustainable development, and responsible tourism in northern Kenya. Its successful working model has provided the framework on which many conservation organizations in the region are based. Visit their website here.

Painted Dog Conservation

Painted dogs, also known as African wild or hunting dogs, are beautiful, unique, and fascinating social animals. Fewer than 7,000 painted dogs are left across the entire continent.


The Painted Dog Conservation employs more than 60 people from the local villages to run its conservation programs and education and outreach programs, resulting in a conservation model that is sustainable in the long term and will make a significant difference in protecting the painted dog population in Zimbabwe. Its efforts span everything from an Anti-Poaching Unit team that patrol local areas daily to a Rehabilitation Facility where they treat injured and orphaned dogs before returning them to the wild.


 Visit their website here.

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