Our Partners

In most cases the challenges facing Africa’s wildlife and its people are too great and too complex, and they require too many resources, for any one organization to address.

We believe that these challenges can best be met by uniting community and conservation managers with policy makers, researchers and business leaders in order to make the best decisions for Africa’s people, its environment and its wildlife. By acting collectively the stakeholders of Africa can combine expertise, knowledge and funding to generate real, innovative, long-lasting, cost efficient and responsible solutions.

ALERT forms the major element of African Encounter’s corporate responsibility program, and as such the two organizations operate in close partnership. Founded by Andrew Conolly, African Encounter developed the African Lion Rehabilitation & Release into the Wild Program and operates this project either in its own right, as at Antelope Park, or with additional investors, as at Lion Encounter Zimbabwe and Lion Encounter Zambia. A significant amount of the surplus made after operational expenses from projects with which African Encounter partners with ALERT is donated to the Trust to further its work.

African Encounter, through its various divisions also undertake a variety of conservation and community development programs in line with the shared values of ALERT and African Encounter under the auspices of ALERT, CCWA or ACT.

Given the implementation costs of projects can be high ALERT also seeks donor funding for projects it jointly operates with commercial entities. However ALERT retains the commercial rights on any element it funds through such means. We seek opportunities to provide long term financial security for all projects through commercial operations and partners where possible to reduce each project's dependency on unreliable donor funding.

ALERT Ambassadors

ALERT would like to thank the following people who are ambassadors for ALERT in their field of influence, giving freely of their time and energy to support the work that we do:

Louise Fiennes
Asli Han Gedik
Karen Partridge
Chris Weston

ALERT would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their previous and/or continuing support of our programs, either directly or indirectly, by offering financial, material, technical, media, commercial or logistical support to achieve our holistic vision: