CONSERVATION INITIATIVES
CONSERVATION INITIATIVES
Naserian Foundation is proud to highlight, support and collaborate with several highly effective conservation organisations that have worked tirelessly and successfully to develop and implement crucial programmes throughout the most vulnerable wildlife regions in Kenya. Working together with the Kenya Wildlife Service and other constructive Conservation Organizations, they are tackling major issues that impact the survival and well-being of the human populations, regional wildlife and environmental sustainability.
The Maasai Mara
With Naserian Foundation’s operations and focus on infrastructure projects in the Maasai Mara, Kenya, we have formed close relationships with Narok County governing bodies, the Kenya Wildlife Service and leading conservation organisations in this region. We formed Akashinga Maasai Wildlife Safari in 2020, which operates in the Maasai Mara Reserve and surrounding conservancies.
Amboseli & Tsavo
BIG LIFE
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.
Collaboration
The first organisation in East Africa with coordinated anti-poaching teams operating on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border, Big Life recognises that sustainable conservation can only be achieved through a community-based collaborative approach. This approach is at the heart of Big Life’s philosophy that conservation supports the people and people support conservation.
Big Life has established a successful holistic conservation model in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem that can be replicated across the African continent.
Community
Winning the hearts and minds of the local community and providing a mutual benefit through conservation is the only way to protect wildlife and wild lands far into the future. To that end, Big Life provides a number of services in support of the community, aligned with Big Life’s ethos: if conservation supports the people, then people will support conservation.
These services include education and healthcare initiatives, and also lesser-known activities, such as using ranger vehicles as ambulances, responding to crime within the community, conducting search and rescue operations, and more.
Storytelling
Big Life Foundation has always been an incredibly effective storytelling organisation. It has used powerful media to inspire - or horrify - into action individuals, organisations and governments. Co-founder and renowned wildlife photographer Nick Brandt has produced four books of photography to support the work of the foundation, and Big Life has been featured in many 3rd party media productions including the widely-seen Netflix documentary, The Ivory Game. Storytelling to support campaign goals will be a critical aspect of the partnership with the Naserian Foundation.
SPACE FOR GIANTS
Space for Giants is headquartered in Kenya, operating in ten countries in Africa. Space for Giants is registered as a charity in the UK and a 501(c)(3) non-profit in the US. Space for Giants works across Africa’s iconic landscapes to unlock the full value of nature by protecting biodiversity and remaining populations of megafauna, while expanding economic, cultural, and social value for local communities and national governments for generations to come.
They bring the discipline of good management, conservation investment, and adaptive innovation to these spaces as a way of not only halting their degradation, but restoring and expanding landscapes through a combination of public and private management strategies. Driven by local context, Space for Giants is able to draw on the expertise of their programme teams in key areas.
“An elephant never tires of carrying its tusks.”