OUR POLICY

The African Horizon Foundation is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2021. The African Horizon Foundation aims to support nature conservation organizations, nature reserves of large significance and nature conservation in general, including support for National Parks and other protected areas on the African continent.

Many protected areas in Africa are being lost under pressure of population growth, systematic poaching of iconic animal species and alternative uses of land, for mining, for example. This is often due to a lack of management and money.

A recent analysis by African Parks of the African continent concluded that there are 161 large, important nature reserves in Africa that need to be protected as a ‘backbone’ in order to properly implement a long-term conservation strategy for Africa. About 69 of this collection are moderately to very well managed; for 92, better management is important and urgent.

As one of her objectives, the African Horizon Foundation wants to support the management of the various parks in Angola, Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, among others, through the African Parks Network by allocating the donations it receives to these protected areas, either in the year itself or, in some cases, in the following year.

Decisions to support various projects are always made independently by the board of the African Horizons Foundation.