There has never been a more critical issue in the history of human civilization than the immediate protection of the natural world.
Our vision is the protection of the natural world.
With big global environmental challenges, we need big solutions. Taking on some of the largest biodiversity conservation projects on the continent, the IAPF delivers ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness landscapes by supporting and empowering local communities.
We:
Connect: through scalable, innovative landscape conservation
Protect: through sustainable community empowerment programs
Restore: through effective leadership, research, & partnerships
Protecting nature at scale is one of the greatest ways to mitigate climate change and future pandemics. Join us today by taking back the future through community-based nature conservation.
Akashinga is a community-driven conservation model, empowering disadvantaged women to restore and manage large networks of wilderness alongside their local communities, as an alternative economic model to trophy hunting.
Our goal is to manage and protect 30 million acres by 2030, employing over 2000 women and empowering 10's of thousands of local community members.
The LEAD Ranger program delivers tailored training, long-term support and mentoring to develop wildlife crime-enforcement leaders and instructors who remain based in the ecosystems they are protecting.
This program is a collaborative initiative by the IAPF, the Thin Green Line Foundation, and Ranger Campus. Our goal is to train rangers that collectively protect 50 million acres.
Our conservation organization is a leader in on-the-ground solutions for nature conservation, protecting and restoring nature in ways that contribute both to national conservation strategies and the empowerment of indigenous communities.
Other groups employ different tactics to help stop this practice, but the IAPF takes a multi-faceted approach. IAPF doesn’t simply help stop poaching from afar, but instead works from the ground level with the people who live in the area that needs protection. Through our programs, we train and educate women who live in the community, providing them with steady income and employment as rangers, as well as other occupations.
This enhances the community in numerous ways. For instance, it can encourage children to stay in school, improve health care, reduce disease and poverty, increase life expectancy, lower the risk of rape and sexual assault, and support structured family planning.
At IAPF, our programs work. For example, 62% of the operational costs involved in the Akashinga model flow directly back into the community, with 80% reaching the households of the rangers. By helping local communities protect their land, we not only care for the wildlife but also develop and empower women and their families.
There are multiple ways to get involved and help further our mission but the most effective is to make a donation to our unique, proven wildlife conservation charity.
