PROJECTS
The Journey
Community Engagement
The foundation assesses, implements, and empowers conflict resolution and coexistence strategies by engaging communities that have a direct relationship with wild areas and animals. It supports research and exploration of evidence-based approaches to facilitate better human-wildlife relationships.
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For several years, we have supported initiatives led by local guides from Pondoland on South Africa’s Wild Coast. This breathtaking, unspoilt wilderness—where land and ocean exist in delicate balance—is under increasing threat from development. Our work seeks to strengthen the custodianship of the AmaMpondo people, whose rural, subsistence lifestyle is deeply intertwined with the health of their land and sea. Their culture, livelihoods, and identity depend on these spaces remaining intact.
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Renowned for its dramatic beauty, the Wild Coast is a place of towering cliffs where waterfalls plunge directly into the ocean, rolling green hills cut by rivers that carve spectacular gorges on their journey to the sea, and a remarkable diversity of endemic flora and fauna, both terrestrial and marine. It is a rare and irreplaceable wilderness that demands protection.
Youth Education
Wilderness immersions & ecological education. Historical, political, and economic forces often exclude local people from accessing conservation areas. We provide deep ecological and ecosystem education to communities that are excluded from accessing wilderness areas.
Anti-poaching awareness
Cultivating awareness among consumers of the products of poaching and in communities where people poach for their livelihood.
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Wild Life Foundation has a very long history with Huluhluwe/iMfolozi Park where we have been facilitating wilderness trails, in particular - Rites of Passage journeys, for more than 10 years.
The park is famous for saving rhinos that had been almost hunted to extinction in the 1950s and 60s and now the fight to save them is at the forefront again with poaching threatening their survival.
Rhino are key stone species in this ecosystem. On our wilderness trails we walk on rhino paths that are centuries old. We learn about their middens that are ecosystems on their own. To lose this iconic species would be a tragedy - not only for the ecosystem but for generations to come. We cannot lose this battle because rhinos matter too much.
We are working closely with Leaders and Natural Healers in the communities that surround the park to help protect these incredible animals. We will update you further as this project progresses. Watch the media for news of up and coming events.
