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Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli 2008. Leading Matriarch Killed By Poachers, 2009

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Big Life Rangers with tusks killed at the hands of man, Amboseli 2011

WELCOME TO BIG LIFE FOUNDATION

Big Life was co-founded by photographer Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham in September 2010.

Since its inception, Big Life has expanded to employ hundreds of Maasai rangers—with more than 40 permanent outposts and tent-based field units, 13 vehicles, tracker dogs, and aerial surveillance—protecting 2 million acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem of East Africa.

Big Life was the first organization in East Africa to establish coordinated cross-border anti-poaching operations.

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Number of kilometers patrolled
by Big Life Rangers

1595421

2139

Arrests since 2011

3177

Poaching tools seized since 2011

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Big Life Predator Compensation Fund Film (3 mins)

 

Big Life Endorsements

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We are very honored that two legends of the African conservation community, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Cynthia Moss, have endorsed the work that Big Life is doing in the Amboseli ecosystem...

NEW! Big Life Launches Ranger Club

 

Join the Ranger Club, our monthly giving program, at a level appropriate for you, and become a part of our community.  Your generosity will help to fund our programs throughout the year, including the seemingly never-ending work of our rangers. By joining, you support more than just our rangers, who work tirelessly to protect elephants, rhinos, lions and other animals from poaching and retaliatory killing due to human-wildlife conflict. 

Learn more, and sign up to join the Ranger Club today.

 

A YEAR OF TWO OLYMPICS

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As athletes across the world start to finalise their preparations for the Rio Olympics later this year, another set of athletes is preparing for a very different Olympics…the Maasai Olympics.

2014 Film: Big Life in Action (6 mins)

 

Big Life News

Bush Journal

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SPEARS FLY IN AMBOSELI

Another week, another huge bull elephant with a spear in it. This time his name was Ulysses, an elephant well known to the Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE). After receiving the call from ATE Big Life got a plane in the air and was

Radio Room

4 July 2016

KENYA: Giraffe carcass found with machete cut to back of the leg, rangers investigating // Eland and giraffe moved from farms // Suspect arrested for illegal sand harvesting, released by officials

3 July 2016

KENYA: Giraffe carcass found in pit // Lion killed 2 lost cows, community calm // 2 farms raided by elephants // Eland and giraffe moved from farms

2 July 2016

KENYA: Elephant calf found and taken to Sheldrick orphanage // 2 water pumps illegally pumping water to farms were confiscated // Zebra with cut on the back leg, suspected to be from machete, possible bush-meat attempt // Cow killed by lions // Elephants raided 2 farms

1 July 2014

KENYA: Elephant calf reported alone, KWS responding // Elephants raided 2 farms // Rangers moved elephants, zebra, eland, giraffe away from farms

30 June 2016

KENYA: Elephants raided 3 farms and eland 1 farm // Rangers moved zebra, eland, giraffe, and impala away from farms // An elephant killed a goat

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