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It started with a film, it became a mission! The mission continues!
Like you, we’re just people, volunteers who care deeply about protecting Africa’s vulnerable wildlife and the communities they impact. Our stellar reputation has been earned, project by project, through building relationships with the people and organizations most impacted by poaching and human/wildlife conflicts, through funding, mentoring, and amplifying their initiatives. We'd love you to join us, because together we can move mountains.

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We raise funds to support multiple projects and some of those expenses are ongoing. Our Wild & Free Wildlife Rehabilitation Center keeps expanding and the needs grow with that success. Having reliable monthly donations allows us to plan and commit to our partners on the ground. We operate 24/7 and provide life-saving emergency care and recovery to wounded wildlife; where sometimes....every second counts.

Your participation is vital to our success - and over the past ten years, we've proven that together, we can make meaningful impact!

As a 501 c3 Public Foundation, your donations are potentially tax deductions. Consult with your accountant to be certain as every person's situation is unique.

If you're new to us, here's a look back at some of our earliest projects and a couple of recent ones - but visit OverAndAboveAfrica.com for all of our past and current projects.

Cheetah Relocation: Recently we successfully collared 4 endangered cheetahs and relocated them to the safer confines of the Babananga Private Game Reserve. Here they will mate with the cheetahs already on the reserve to strengthen DNA variation and establish new cheetah communities. Less than 6,000 remain in the wild today, which is due primarily to poaching. Additionally, cheetahs are difficult to establish in new areas as they do not do well in altercations with other predators.

Elephant Herd Relocation: In Partnership with Zululand Conservation Trust & Manyoni Private Game Reserve, we safely relocated an elephant herd at risk of being culled to the Babanango Private Game Reserve, South Africa - where new herds will be established on ample acreage and their safety is ensured. It was one of our "largest" projects!

Lioness Rewilding: We have funded tracking collars, translocation, and the rewilding of four lionesses also to the Babanango Private Game Reserve in South Africa.

Protecting Pangolins: We have funded multiple pangolin projects from medical treatment and rehabilitation needs, to telemetry tracking and monitoring programs that safeguard their successful relief. Most of the pangolins we've helped to protect were rescued from the poaching trade. Sadly, pangolins are currently the world's most trafficked mammal. Ironically, they are in such high demand for the mythical healing properties of their scales; a false belief as their scales have been proven to hold no medicinal value.

Seed Funding to Help Launch Damien Mander’s Akashinga Female Rangers: When Damien Mander had the extraordinary idea of empowering local women in Africa to become rangers, we were one of a handful of trusted organizations that Damien approached to help him raise the necessary funds to actualize his ambitious mission. He was successful, these women became the Akashingas and are now considered world-famous Rangers by all who know them!

We were honored to be a small part of his incredible dream to create an empowered, all-female team of rangers protecting wildlife. Be a part of ours to build wildlife rehabilitation clinics across Africa!

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