BigLife Foundation
Big Life Foundation was co-founded by photographer Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham in September 2010Since its inception, Big Life has expanded to employ hundreds of local Maasai rangers, protecting 2 million acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem of East Africa, and was the first organization in East Africa to establish coordinated cross-border anti-poaching operations. Recognizing that sustainable conservation can only be achieved through a collaborative, community-based approach, Big Life uses innovative conservation strategies to address the greatest threats, reduce the loss of wildlife to poaching, combat the ivory trade, mitigate human-wildlife conflict, protect the great predators, and manage scarce and fragile natural resources. Big Life’s goal is to take the successful holistic conservation model established in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem and replicate it across the African continent.
