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Banning the sale of legal ivory: the UK’s about to get in step – we hope

Tuesday, 27th February, 2018

With the UK set to host 2018 Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, I’m delighted to note that the government has finally bowed to pressure and authorised a consultation process last October for the…

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Mahale, Ntakata, and the Tongwe: A conservation journey to a lost world

Tuesday, 13th February, 2018

Here at Wild Philanthropy we work with some extraordinary people and places. Planning and writing our client itineraries takes me to storybook lands of remote tribes, wildlife-filled…

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Ethiopia adventures: Paul Herbertson reports on developments in the Omo

Tuesday, 23rd January, 2018

When I was first speaking with Will Jones about joining Wild Philanthropy one of the things that really caught my interest was Wild Philanthropy’s first impact investment…

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The Northern Rangelands of Kenya Conservation Journey

Tuesday, 9th January, 2018

Following a recent trip to Kenya, I was contemplating how Wild Philanthropy has grown from a seed in the back of my mind circa 2008 into the…

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The singing wells of Namunyak

Tuesday, 12th December, 2017

Set in Northern Kenya and home to Sarara Lodge and Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, Namunyak is part of the Northern Rangelands Trust group. It was established as a…

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The future of Africa’s rhino: a conservation model that works

Tuesday, 21st November, 2017

On 6th November 2017 Daniel Schneider, a biologist from Boston, posted an image of a northern white rhinoceros, called Sudan, with the caption: ‘Want to know what…

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Raisin on the hill in Sarara in Namunyak

A history of Namunyak Conservancy

Monday, 13th November, 2017

As well as offering bespoke private safaris to anywhere in Southern and Eastern Africa, Wild Philanthropy also organises set departure trips, which are less like a holiday…

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Andrew McCarthy of The New York Times goes to the Omo

Sunday, 5th November, 2017

I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see Andrew McCarthy’s excellent Up Close with Ethiopia’s Imperiled Omo Valley, published today in the New York Times….

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Borana Lodge Medical Clinic

Thursday, 7th December, 2017

Many communities in rural Africa lack healthcare enough to cope with disease transmission. Aside from AIDS, malaria and measles, it is often the ones that we see…

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