Read All About It! Children of Conservation featured in TravelEssence Magazine

Children of Conservation founder Kerry, and board member, Mike are featured in this month’s edition of TravelEssence Magazine. The two eco-heroes are acknowledged for their incredible work helping to build gabions to protect the shoreline of Ngamba Island Chimapanzee Sanctuary from catastrophic rising water levels due to global warming. You can read the article in…

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Kicking off 2021 with emergency construction in Uganda

The challenges of 2020 were not just limited to COVID-19 at Ngamba Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda. The catastrophe of climate change came to their shores in the form of rising lake levels and uncontrollable flooding. Water levels shot up in 2020 and destroyed infrastructure, piers and eroded the delicate shoreline of the 100 acre island.…

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Give the Gift of Hope this Holiday Season

This year has been so hard for so many people. We know you’ve been asked to give and give. We want to offer you the opportunity to give one last time for 2020 and make a difference to an individual in Africa that you can form a lasting bond with. Six students have been part…

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Protecting Mountain Gorillas in honor of Rafiki

In June of this year, villagers entered Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda hunting for food. They encountered one of Bwindi’s best known silverbacks, Rafiki, panicked and speared him. Rafiki died, leaving the Nkuringo group vulnerable and their future uncertain. Bwindi is home to 43% of all the world’s remaining 1000 mountain gorillas. The…

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Celebrating Success

Six Kenyan teenagers have been part of pilot program between Children of Conservation and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. In exchange for agreements from their village leaders that no more elephants will be killed, we’ve been providing scholarships for their brightest kids to go to the best school in their region. The six students all graduated high…

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