Kenya The Amboseli Ecosystem Trust (AET) in Kenya was formed in the noughties (circa 2004). AET’s founding stakeholders included the Amboseli Conservation Program (ACP), founded in 1967 by David Western, a respected activist who directed the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society‘s activities internationally (appointed 1997). AET’s founders also included the African Conservation Center, which was established… Continue reading Amboseli Ecosystem Trust
Canada CATCA Environmental and Wildlife Society (CATCA EWS) was co-founded in 1989 by Ericka Ceballos and Daniel Sorg. The aim of this small NGO, in Ceballos’s words, ‘as an animal rights, animal welfare and animal conservation organization,’ was to stop animal cruelty around the world. In Canada CATCA EWS is best known for its opposition… Continue reading CATCA Environmental and Wildlife Society
West Java, Indonesia Founded in 2013 by the biologist Yokyok Hadiprakarsa, Rangkong Indonesia, which operates The Indonesia Hornbill Conservation Society (IHCS), is the research unit of the Rekam Nusantara Foundation, a group of environmental media, wildlife and marine researchers. IHCS exists to protect all 13 species of hornbills that live in the country’s forests, two… Continue reading The Indonesia Hornbill Conservation Society
USA Defenders of Wildlife was founded in 1947 to protect and restore threatened species and their habitats in North America. However it also takes a keen interest in the listing of all types of species in CITES’ appendices. At CoP-18 Defenders of Wildlife supported successful calls to list mako sharks in appendix II. Since then… Continue reading Defenders of Wildlife
Washington DC Founded in 1987, the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA) is a trade association dedicated to supporting public display facilities, education, scientific research, and to the rescue and rehabilitation of animals in the wild. It is, in essence, a voluntary professional international body committed to protecting animal welfare, which has appointed… Continue reading Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums
USA The American Cetacean Society (ACS) is a confederation of local chapters founded in 1967, which claims to be the first whale, dolphin, and porpoise conservation group in the world. Its co-founders, who originally wanted to farm whales to conquer world hunger, were Elizabeth ‘Bemi’ DeBus and, most notably, Dr. Clark Cameron (1922-2004). According to… Continue reading American Cetacean Society
Cotati, CA, USA The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) was founded in 1979 by the U.S. attorney Joyce Tischler, whose supporters like to call the ‘mother of animal law’. Tischler was among the first lawyers to support the animal rights movement in the 1970s. It was her thinking that articulated the notion that legal rights… Continue reading Animal Legal Defense Fund
London and New York Elephant Family: protecting Asian wildlife and its habitat was founded by five conservationists in 2002, under the patronage of the Rajmata of Jaipur and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. The founding five were Mark Shand, Dugal Muller, Robin Russell, Caroline Casey and Nicholas Claxton. Elephant Family, which is registered in the USA… Continue reading Elephant Family: protecting Asian wildlife and its habitat
Japan The Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF) has been active since 2009. Its core mission is to protect tigers, elephants and Iriomote cats, a critically endangered subspecies of Asia’s leopard cat. Its programmes are financed by three separate funds which existed before JTEF did: one fund for each of the three species it exists… Continue reading Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund
AZLE, TEXAS, USA Established in 1999, the International Elephant Foundation (IEF) is credited with being inspired and created by Michael Fouraker, Executive Director of the Fort Worth Zoo in the USA. In its words, IEF ‘creates a sustainable future for elephants’. It claims to generate and effectively invest in resources to support elephant conservation, education, research,… Continue reading The International Elephant Foundation
