Ultimate Safaris contributes N$8 million towards conservation
Ultimate Safaris, through their Conservation Travel Foundation, contributed N$8.1 million towards conservation and rural development initiatives in 2024.
From supporting other, existing charity initiatives to funding education and anti-poaching initiatives, and even ensuring water security for residents of conservancies, the largest single contribution went to the construction of predator proof kraals, Ultimate Safaris said in a statement.
“These kraals decrease incidents of human-wildlife conflict, especially the erratic movement of lions and their need to find alternate food sources as the on-going drought ravages their traditional hunting grounds.”
According to Ultimate Safaris, the installation of the kraals is done in support of existing government and wildlife NGOs, and in alignment with the overall Human-Lion Conflict Management Plan for North-West Namibia.
Other projects which have received large financial support from the Ultimate Safaris’ Conservation Travel Foundation include the repair and re-development of the Doro !Nawas Conservancy-owned Granietkop Camp Site with the support of Community Conservation Fund of Namibia; the support of funding salaries and running costs of human-wildlife conflict rapid response teams, the running costs and the cost of satellite collars for the Desert Lion Conservation Trust and the purchase and mobilisation of a new Toyota Land Cruiser for the Lion Ranger Project’s Eastern Kunene Rapid Response team.
Ultimate Safaris said that there was also support for rhino conservation, with the supply of uniforms and field gear for every conservancy-employed Rhino Ranger, almost 100 of them, which has become an annual effort.
Various research projects were also funded by the foundation during 2024 into leopards and other big cats through the AfriCat Foundation; lions in the Kunene Region’s Ombonde Research Area in conjunction with the Lion Recovery Fund; cheetahs through the North West Cheetah Project; giraffes in partnership with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, and the funding of operational expenses for annual Conservancy game counts.
"We are pleased to have once again contributed over N$8 million towards crucial conservation and rural community work in 2024, this being in addition to any contractual obligations that Ultimate Safaris has,” said Ultimate Safaris’ Managing Director, Tristan Cowley.
From supporting other, existing charity initiatives to funding education and anti-poaching initiatives, and even ensuring water security for residents of conservancies, the largest single contribution went to the construction of predator proof kraals, Ultimate Safaris said in a statement.
“These kraals decrease incidents of human-wildlife conflict, especially the erratic movement of lions and their need to find alternate food sources as the on-going drought ravages their traditional hunting grounds.”
According to Ultimate Safaris, the installation of the kraals is done in support of existing government and wildlife NGOs, and in alignment with the overall Human-Lion Conflict Management Plan for North-West Namibia.
Other projects which have received large financial support from the Ultimate Safaris’ Conservation Travel Foundation include the repair and re-development of the Doro !Nawas Conservancy-owned Granietkop Camp Site with the support of Community Conservation Fund of Namibia; the support of funding salaries and running costs of human-wildlife conflict rapid response teams, the running costs and the cost of satellite collars for the Desert Lion Conservation Trust and the purchase and mobilisation of a new Toyota Land Cruiser for the Lion Ranger Project’s Eastern Kunene Rapid Response team.
Ultimate Safaris said that there was also support for rhino conservation, with the supply of uniforms and field gear for every conservancy-employed Rhino Ranger, almost 100 of them, which has become an annual effort.
Various research projects were also funded by the foundation during 2024 into leopards and other big cats through the AfriCat Foundation; lions in the Kunene Region’s Ombonde Research Area in conjunction with the Lion Recovery Fund; cheetahs through the North West Cheetah Project; giraffes in partnership with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, and the funding of operational expenses for annual Conservancy game counts.
"We are pleased to have once again contributed over N$8 million towards crucial conservation and rural community work in 2024, this being in addition to any contractual obligations that Ultimate Safaris has,” said Ultimate Safaris’ Managing Director, Tristan Cowley.
