Global Conservation supports two conservation partners for the Ngorongoro World Heritage Site in Tanzania: African People and Wildlife (APW) and KopeLion. Regarding APW, we provide support to human-wildlife conflict mitigation officers, with a primary focus on elephants, while KopeLion focuses on developing a sustainable model for lion-livestock coexistence.

Packed with highlights of conservation successes from around the world at our project sites, this report features the effectiveness that the Global Park Defense and Community Engagement programs have for protecting culturally rich and highly biodiverse natural ecosystems in the most threatened parts of our world—land or sea.

This documentary by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Joshua Asel explores the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania, one of the world’s greatest reservoirs of large mammal biodiversity and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, while highlighting the delicate balance between wildlife, people, and land.

African People & Wildlife (APW) is the recipient of a grant from Global Conservation for the project “Supporting rapid response anti-poaching teams and human-wildlife conflict mitigation officers in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.” This project is essential to the success of community-driven conservation programs in Tanzania.

Global Conservation supports two Conservation Partners for the Ngorongoro World Heritage Site in Tanzania: African People and Wildlife (APW) and KopeLion. With APW, we provide support to rapid response anti-poaching teams and human-wildlife conflict mitigation officers, with a primary focus on elephants, while KopeLion focuses on developing a sustainable model for lion-livestock coexistence.