David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) is a highly effective wildlife conservation charity funding key conservation projects across Africa and Asia. Their mission is to increase awareness around the world about the need to protect and conserve wildlife and their habitats.

The Art of Survival: FIGHT • PROTECT • ENGAGE on behalf of endangered wildlife around the world.

 DSWF’s Mission is to raise vital funds to support front line conservation projects which help secure a future for wildlife in their natural habitat. DSWF:

* Fight environmental and wildlife crime through ranger programmes and law enforcement.

* Engage with communities to educate and raise awareness to reduce threats to wildlife.

* Campaign for stronger wildlife laws and to reduce consumer demand for wildlife products.

Through dedication and hard work DSWF have influenced policy, shifted attitudes and provided an unwavering voice for wildlife conservation from grass roots to the world stage for 35 years. They work hard to maximise the impact of every donation they receive and to date have invested over £10.5 million in wildlife conservation projects.

 

The Art of Survival: FIGHT • PROTECT • ENGAGE

DSWF fights for the greatest legal protection of endangered species by lobbying on a global scale and in the international policy arena.  They fund international investigations into environmental crime and help to build the capacity of law enforcement networks across our portfolio.  They also support and train rangers fighting on the front line of conservation.

DSWF protects vulnerable and endangered species by funding ground-based conservation partners across Africa and Asia working on practical solutions to mitigate human-wildlife conflict, monitoring key wildlife populations, ensuring protected areas are safe, and the rescue and rehabilitation of wildlife orphaned as a result of poaching to ensure their safe release back into the wild.

 DSWF is working to protect these endangered species:

 Elephants / Tigers / Pangolins / Snow leopards  / Painted dogs / Chimpanzees / Rhinos / Lions

DSWF engages with communities through education, believing that participation is vital to ensure a sustainable future for both people and wildlife. They support alternative income and livelihood initiatives and empower local communities and future generations to live in harmony with wildlife. DSWF also supports public awareness campaigns to reduce the demand and eliminate the consumptive use of wildlife products in consumer countries.

DSWF’s innovative ‘Art of Survival’ programme ensures their artistic heritage continues to reach, inspire and engage people around the world to join our fight to save wildlife. Their founder, the late David Shepherd, was famous for his wonderful wildlife art. DSWF have continued to promote wildlife art through: annual Wildlife Artist of the Year competition, Art Patron, Wildlife Art Ambassadors, Global Canvas – Children’s Art Competition and Art Shop. They continue to use art as an effective and engaging platform to raise awareness and funds for our work.

 

DSWF’s ground-based conservation partners are dedicated and professional organisations with a deep understanding of the landscapes in which they operate and their relationship with DSWF is steeped in mutual respect and admiration, nurtured over many years. More than ever before, we face daily news of the devastation that humans inflict on wildlife and on our planet; news of vanishing species and wild spaces. DSWF invests in economically and socially vulnerable communities with programmes that have a real impact on real people in real places.

DSWF invests in economically and socially vulnerable communities with programmes most affected by human-wildlife conflict that have a real impact on real people in real places. DSWF takes a holistic approach to conservation, recognising the essential role that communities and education both play in ensuring conservation successes. They also recognise the need to tackle environmental and wildlife crime from grassroots to the world stage across all forums and platforms available for change.

 

DSWF is pushing for greater protectionist policies by engaging in the international policy arena, fighting for greater protectionist policies and legislation, governments become equally important stakeholders in the fight for species protection, alongside those putting their lives on the line daily for the survival of species and the protection of their natural habitats. DSWF works to fight environmental and wildlife crime, protect some of the most vulnerable species and engage with communities.