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Africa Big Life Foundation

A pack of elephants.

The Riester Foundation is proud to support the Big Life Foundation’s Ranger Program to protect African wildlife. Big Life Foundation’s area of operation covers more than 1.6 million acres across the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem in East Africa. Big Life’s rangers protect and secure wildlife and critical habitat in one of the most important habitats left in all of Africa.

A truck full of African men on and around a Big Life Foundation truck looking out over a large field, atop a hill in an open setting with mountains behind them.
Three elephants with large tusks standing among tall trees in an open field with a subtle horizon line behind them.

Big Life successfully achieves its mission through the implementation of a comprehensive ranger program consisting of more than 300 local community rangers and field staff, 40 permanent outposts and tent-based field units, 14 vehicles, 2 tracker dogs, and 2 planes for aerial surveillance. Big Life’s employment of Maasai rangers and field staff serves a dual purpose: It directly improves the livelihoods of local people and helps ensure a future of coexistence between people and animals.

A truck full of African men on a Big Life Foundation truck looking out over a large field with an Elephant walking off in the distance, among tall grass.
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