Rewild Zambezi, Zimbabwe
2025 - Rewild Zambezi - donation of USD 10,000

Project Rewild Zambezi is a conservation initiative that aims to save and translocate animals that are facing population pressure — including elephants, wild dogs, lions, eland, impala, zebra, wildebeest and other species. The resettlement goes hand in hand with the development of the Sapi Reserve in the Zambezi Valley to ensure that the animals can live in a safe environment.

In the first quarter of 2025, a pack of wild dogs will be relocated. The wild dog population in the Sapi region is in sharp decline. The resulting data is the perfect basis for the doctoral thesis of Thomas Mutonhori, ecologist for the Great Plains in the Sapi Reserve. It will focus on the challenges faced by wild dogs in the Mid Zambezi Valley. His work will provide valuable insights for the protection of the wild dogs.

Update for 2025 will be released in Q1 2026

Further reading
Confirmation Letter 2025
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Year 2023
2023 - Rewild Zambezi - donation of USD 50,000

We were able to transfer the promised USD 50,000 to the Great Plains Foundation for Rewild Zambezi at the end of February 2023. Our site visit in June 2023 shows construction work on the new Research Center.

Our partner
Dereck & Beverly Joubert - Great Plains Foundation
Dereck and Beverly Joubert are globally recognized, award-winning filmmakers, conservationists, and National Geographic explorers-in-large based in Botswana. Their mission for more than 30 years has been the conservation of key wildlife species, with a focus on large predators. They are the owners of Great Plains Conservation, which operates some of the most beautiful camps in Botswana and Kenya. Through the Great Plains Foundation, various nature conservation projects are driven forward.
The Jouberts have published 12 books, produced 30 films for National Geographic, and written half a dozen scientific papers as well as many articles for National Geographic magazine. They have received 8 Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a Grand Teton Award, multiple Golden Panda Awards, a World Ecology Award (along with Britain’s Prince Charles, Sylvia Earle, and paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey), and a Presidential Order of Merit awarded by Botswana’s ex-president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, for their conservation work.

The Jouberts’ films have received widespread attention and have been viewed by millions of people. Films like «Eternal Enemies», «The Last Lions», «Soul of the Elephant» and their masterpiece «Eye of the Leopard» are known world-wide. For more information, please visit their website www.wildlifefilms.co

All of Dereck & Beverly's work has one goal: to save the wild areas of Africa and protect the wildlife that depends on them. The President of Botswana described them aptly when he said, "Theirs is a life long passion; for each other, for big cats, for Africa...they are true "children of Africa."
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