Space for Giants
About Company
Space for Giants is an international conservation organisation that protects Africa’s remaining natural ecosystems and the large wild animals they contain, while bringing major social and economic value to local communities and national governments. It is headquartered in Kenya, works in ten countries in Africa, and is registered as a chaBy working through an integrated management approach with national wildlife authorities and conservation partners in a given landscape, we can support the effective and active management of these protected areas and ensure they are sustained in the long term.
what we do
We help protect Africa’s remaining natural ecosystems and the large wild animals they contain, while bringing major social and economic value to local communities and national governments
Africa’s iconic landscapes span rainforests to deserts, wetlands to savannahs. This biodiversity is essential to climate resilience, livelihoods, and could hold the keys to future innovations and pharmaceutical breakthroughs. However, these areas are under extreme pressure, and if not protected, will be lost forever.
We work across Africa’s iconic landscapes to unlock the full value of nature by protecting biodiversity and remaining populations of megafauna, while expanding economic, cultural, and social value for local communities and national governments for generations to come. We are headquartered in Kenya, work in ten countries in Africa, and are registered as a charity in the UK and a 501c3 non profit in the US.
We bring the discipline of good management, conservation investment, and adaptive innovation to these spaces as a way of not only halting their degradation, but restoring and expanding landscapes through a combination of public and private management strategies. Driven by local context, we are able to draw on the expertise of our programme teams in key areas:
Conservation Landscapes: Ensuring management of key ecosystems through private-public partnerships
Conservation Investment: Building a nature-based economy to ensure landscapes are financially sustainable in the long-term
Wildlife Justice: Strengthening African justice systems to bring an end to the illegal wildlife trade
Conservation Science: Understanding and applying learnings to improve management and protection
Human-wildlife Coexistence: Ensuring people and wildlife coexist in shared wild spaces
Frontline protection: Equipping and training those working on in the national parks and conservation areas
Conservation Journalism: Supporting the next generation of African conservation storytellers
Our Services.
Human elephant coexistence; Human-elephant conflict also imposes significant costs on those people who live close to wildlife, contributing to food insecurity and in some cases, such as major crop-raiding incidents, it can lead to an immediate subsistence crisis.
Wildlife justice; Wildlife crime is a multi-billion-dollar illicit business. It decimates Africa’s wildlife and undermines economic prosperity and sustainable development, including legal enterprises such as tourism. It also threatens social stability and cohesion and deprives people of their cultural and natural heritage. A combination of weak law enforcement within and across national borders, inconsistent legal frameworks and prosecution, and poor international cooperation have enabled the illegal wildlife trade to flourish, even as species are pushed towards extinction.
Conservation science; The better we understand the complexity of the problems, the more effective we are in finding solutions and deepening our impact. From the data we collect, we are able to highlight trends that allow us to inform policy and mitigation methods at a very local as well as national level.
Conservation Investments; There is a critical need for a nature-based approach to funding in order to support both humans and wildlife, allowing them to coexist and benefit from this relationship.
Conservation landscapes; By working through an integrated management approach with national wildlife authorities and conservation partners in a given landscape, we can support the effective and active management of these protected areas and ensure they are sustained in the long term.
OUR MISSION
To protect the natural ecosystems on which Africa’s large wild animals depend and ensure they are valued by people so that they endure, forever
We are an international conservation organisation that protects the great wildlife landscapes that Africa’s remaining wildlife needs to survive and thrive
These landscapes give homes to giants, but they also bring great value to people and nations: biodiversity, livelihoods and enterprise, new medicines, carbon storage, even the very oxygen we breathe. But they are under threat. Criminals kill endangered animals for tusks, horns, scales and skins. Farmers needing more land to feed their families expand into wildlife habitat. When wild animals then damage their crops, they retaliate.
OUR VISION
A Healthy Earth on which both large wild animals and people can thrive
Space for Giants grew out of pioneering research in the early 2000s into how to encourage the co-existence of people and wildlife in modernising Africa. Since then, we have spent close to two decades working in these landscapes, studying how people and wild animals live together, and how that relationship is changing.
We understand that to survive, these landscapes and their wildlife must prove that they bring value now and long into the future. Then they become assets people and governments fight to protect. We also understand that time is short. While we work to demonstrate this value, we must also act now to preserve these landscapes so that they don’t disappear before it’s too late.
