Head Of Fundraising And Communications
Currentspaceforgiants.orgSpace for Giants is an international conservation organisation that protects the greatwildlife landscapes that Africa’s remaining elephants need to survive and thrive. Theselandscapes give homes to giants. But they also bring great value to people andnations: biodiversity, livelihoods and enterprise, new medicines, carbon storage, even thevery oxygen we breathe and the water we drink. But they are under threat. Criminals kill endangered species for tusks, horns, scales, and skins. Needing more land to feed their families, farmers expand theirfields into wildlife habitat and understandably retaliate when animals then damage their crops. Climate change and unsustainable development combine to drive species large and small towards extinction, wrecking nature’s biodiverse balance.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 wildlifemust prove that they bring value today, and long into the future. They must become assets people and governments value, and therefore 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 and their wild inhabitants, so that they don’t disappear before it’s too late.
