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Thank You For Your Support!
The AfriCat Foundation is dependent upon financial support to maintain our various research projects. Donations support the purchase of equipment, veterinary costs, staff salaries, vehicles and the care of the welfare carnivores. We appreciate general donations that allow us to assign funding where it is most needed at the time and to facilitate long-term planning and the sustainability of AfriCat’s projects.
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The AfriCat Foundation was established in the early
1990s to contribute to the long-term conservation of
Namibia’s wildlife. Recognising that protected areas for wildlife contribute to conservation by offering a solution for habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict, AfriCat is taking advantage of its location in the 220 square kilometre Okonjima Nature Reserve to conduct research on the ecology of flora and fauna in enclosed protected areas, in particular carnivores, rare and endangered species and the reversal of rangeland degradation.
By improving the understanding of how constraints to
migration impact upon wildlife and the environments
they live in, we hope to contribute to national conservation objectives and policy-making for the management and sustainability of enclosed protected areas.
AfriCat has one of the longest running leopard monitoring projects in Namibia and the AfriCat Pangolin Research Project is one of only a handful of projects studying free-ranging pangolin. Phase two of a highly successful brown hyena study is under development and AfriCat is initiating research on lesser-known Namibian wildlife such as the aardvark and aardwolf.
When adequate funding can be raised, AfriCat will seek to identify strategies for reversal of rangeland degradation, starting with an evaluation of the impact of different methodologies of bush thinning on soil quality and vegetation and its impact upon biodiversity and sustainability. In order to facilitate research in the Reserve, AfriCat is also seeking funding to install Smart Parks in the Okonjima Nature Reserve as Smart Parks provides advanced sensor solutions for the conservation of endangered wildlife and the efficient management of protected areas.
In addition to undertaking its own research, AfriCat hosts and facilitates external researchers with similar research interests, such as graduate students from Namibian universities, to conduct research in the Okonjima Nature Reserve. Finally, the AfriCat Carnivore Care Centre is home to a small number of carnivores that have been rescued from farmland. These animals are ambassadors for their species, helping AfriCat raise awareness about human-wildlife conflict and the conservation needs of these threatened species.
The AfriCat Foundation is dependent upon financial support to maintain our various research projects. Donations support the purchase of equipment, veterinary costs, staff salaries, vehicles and the care of the welfare carnivores. We appreciate general donations that allow us to assign funding where it is most needed at the time and to facilitate long-term planning and the sustainability of AfriCat’s projects.
DONATIONS CAN BE MADE IN A VARIETY OF WAYS!
Please click on the Donation Form button below to find a way that best suits you.
If making a bank transfer to any of the AfriCat organizations please email the respective organization to advise of your donation
so that we can thank you.
