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 under the management of African Parks Network or an organization affiliated with African Parks Network.
Many protected areas in Africa are being lost under the pressure of population growth, the systematic poaching of iconic animal species and the alternative use of land for mining, for example. This is often due to a lack of management and money. This downward trend and the belief that we have an innovative solution for this was the reason that African Parks was founded in 2000. African Parks received its first mandate in 2003. Since the end of 2020, African Parks has 19 parks under management in 11 countries, with a total size of 14.7 million hectares, an area the size of which is three times the size of the Netherlands.
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. It is the ambition of African Parks to have expanded the portfolio to 30 parks by 2030, and another 10 through collaboration with other, smaller organizations that want to adopt the African Parks model. The priority here is on larger areas with important ecosystems.
The African Horizon Foundation wants to support the management of the various parks in Rwanda, Zambia, Mozambique, Chad, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin and the Central African Republic, 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.