African Parks

A non-profit conservation organisation, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Johannesburg, that takes long-term responsibility for managing national parks and protected areas under mandates from African governments. It reports managing 24 protected areas in 13 countries covering more than 20 million hectares (2024-25), and carried out a translocation of around 500 elephants between reserves in Malawi in 2016-17. In 2024 it announced a plan of roughly USD 1 billion in support of the global 30x30 protected-area goals. Wyss Foundation is named as a major donor, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility as funding partners, and WWF and National Geographic Society as technical partners.