Big Life Foundation

Big Life Foundation was founded by photographer Nick Brandt and conservationist Richard Bonham in September 2010.

With Richard Bonham as Director of Operations for Big Life in Africa, and Project Manager Damian Bell in Tanzania, Big Life has now expanded and employs over 315 rangers, maintains 31 ranger outposts, has 15 vehicles, and 2 planes for aerial monitoring and protecting 2 million acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem of East Africa.

Big Life was the first organization in East Africa with co-ordinated cross-border anti-poaching operations.

As of April 2013, Big Life's rangers have made 1,030 arrests and confiscated 3,012 weapons/poaching tools since November 2010.

Recognizing that sustainable conservation can only be achieved through a community-based collaborative approach, Big Life uses innovative conservation strategies to reduce the loss of wildlife to poaching, defeat the ivory trade, mitigate human-wildlife conflict and manage scarce and fragile natural resources.

Big Life’s vision is to take the successful holistic conservation model in the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem and replicate it across the African continent.