Corporate and Foundation Research

Our Tarangire-Manyara Wildlife Corridor Project - protecting wildlife by empowering people is underway and we need assistance in locating corporate and foundation funding.

As you know, Northern Tanzania—home to Mount Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, and Ngorongoro Crater—is also home to the lesser-known Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem (TME), one of the world’s most vital yet imperiled wildlife refuges. This vast grassland provides an ideal habitat for Africa’s largest animal species including lions, leopards, elephants, and buffaloes.

The Tarangire and Manyara National Parks are connected by a wildlife corridor that is part of this ecosystem, and critical for the free movement of large animals between the Parks, and it is under extreme pressure and threat. Sustainable conservation of Africa’s diverse ecosystems and wildlife cannot be achieved without securing the wellbeing of the local communities. Currently, most of the members of the 22 communities in and around the TME corridor live in extreme poverty. This poverty leads to human encroachment into the corridor to expand agriculture or poach animals, reducing animal habitat or population or both. The best way to protect wildlife in the TME is to help the local population sustainably escape poverty.

We truly need assistance in research at this time.