Great Plains Conservation
The founding partners of Great Plains Dereck & Beverly Joubert, Mark Read, Paul Harris & Colin Bell have come together with one main goal – to create iconic, role model, sustainable conservation projects. These five individuals in their 50's pooled their wide ranging skills and experience to create innovative, world-class conservation projects in a number of diverse and threatened habitats throughout Africa, the Indian Ocean and eventually in India. The world's citizens must make a choice - "where to from here?" We believe there can only be one goal - saving some of the last great, iconic, and wild places of the world. This is the mission: to find the right formula between conservation, communities and commerce. Great Plains Conservation's model takes stressed and threatened environments, surrounds them with compassionate protection and intelligent management. National Geographic Society have recognised the common ethos between their own work throughout the world and that of Great Plains Conservation and have become an investor into Great Plains, with the Joubert's launching the National Geographic Big Cat Initiative.
www.greatplainsconservation.com
Where we operate
Botswana, Kenya, Seychelles, South Africa
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Charities we are proud to support:
From lions in Kenya to snow leopards in the Himalaya, the big cats of the world need help. Lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars, and other top felines are quickly disappearing, all victims of habitat loss and degradation as well as conflicts with humans.
To address this critical situation, the National Geographic Society and Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert, have launched the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports on-the-ground conservation projects, education, and economic incentive efforts and a global public-awareness campaign. “We no longer have the luxury of time when it comes to big cats,” says Dereck Joubert. “They are in such a downward spiral that if we hesitate now, we will be responsible for extinctions across the globe. If there was ever a time to take action, it is now.” You can help us make a difference. Your donation can help save a big cat and ensure the Earth is not without these majestic creatures.
The Maasailand Preservation Trust recognizes that for the Maasai residents of Mbirikani Group Ranch and the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem as a whole, the cost of living with wildlife exceeds the benefits. MPT therefore seeks to better balance the economics of everyday life for the local community and resolve human-wildlife conflict whenever possible. By contributing to the success of the Maasai people and their pastoral way of life – through economics, education, and ecology – the Trust, working in close collaboration with local stakeholders, seeks to stabilize and sustain the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem and its irreplaceable biodiversity.
In 2003 MPT introduced and pilot-tested a one-of-a-kind conservation model on Mbirikani Group Ranch that is comprised of four major components:
Predator Compensation Fund (PCF)
Community Game Scouts
Education
Field research and additive conservation programs (Lion Guardians)
The Maasailand Preservation Trust seeks to stabilise and sustain the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem and its irreplaceable biodiversity by contributing to the success of the Maasai people and their pastoralist way of life. We rely on the generous support of individuals, families and companies to fund our growing operational needs and contributions of any amount are greatly appreciated.
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