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The African Travel Recovery Fund

Sunday, 28th March, 2021

In a recent article on the immediate and long term impact of Covid-19 on Africa’s wildernesses and the prospects of the communities that both rely on and…

Boots on the ground: Enonkishu’s new ranger outpost

Tuesday, 19th January, 2021

Those of you familiar with our work will know that the wonderful Enonkishu Conservancy one of the at-risk ecosystems supported by Wild Philanthropy. The below report comes…

Regenerative travel and the case for travel-driven conservation models

Wednesday, 30th September, 2020

Just a quick note to say that I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the first Regenerative Travel Summit. As a concept, regenerative travel…

Enonkishu: COVID-19, our support, and two conservancy heroes

Tuesday, 12th May, 2020

One of the African Tourism Crisis Fund’s first grants was to Enonkishu Conservancy, a Wild Philanthropy core ecosystem project, and which as well suffering the knock-on effects…

Conserving Africa’s wildernesses: lockdown, loss, and mitigating the threat

Monday, 20th April, 2020

The first of a series of blogs from Domenica Dryer, who has over the last few months done a wonderful job reaching out to Wild Philanthropy’s donors….

The African Tourism Crisis Fund: fast, simple and effective support for COVID-hit communities

Friday, 17th April, 2020

As you will no doubt be aware, the knock-on effect of the COVID-19 crisis on conservation in Africa has been nothing short of catastrophic. With national borders…

Sustainable travel – an oxymoron?

Wednesday, 26th February, 2020

I spent my whole career working on environmental issues – with climate change at the heart of those. Although often it’s been tough, working to try and…

Way of the old

Thursday, 20th February, 2020

I was delighted to note in travel magazine Cartography’s latest issue an essay – We Are All Brothers and Sisters – by the anthropologist Wade Davis. If…

The Indian Nino: fire, flood and plague

Friday, 31st January, 2020

Any of us even vaguely familiar with the world’s human origin stories – the Bible or the Quran, for example – will be cognisant with myths that…