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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 2014

A letter from the C.E.O

The last two years have been some of the most challenging for our cause. We now know that 100,000 African elephants have been killed in the last three years alone, largely to supply illegal ivory to markets in Asia. Forest elephants, far rarer than their cousins of the savannah, have been particularly badly affected, down by 75% in the last decade. Over and above these sobering statistics, some of Africa’s last intact ecosystems are under enormous pressure. Admirable economic growth, so key for doing the heavy lifting to bring Africans out of poverty, has come at a cost.

Enormous infrastructure development projects, accelerated rates of natural resource extraction, combined with agricultural expansion, are contributing to the fragmentation of some of the last remaining refuges for mega-fauna on earth.

Cover: Photography: David Gulden Right: Max Graham with members of the rapid response team.

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In the last two years I’ve witnessed these pressures first-hand, from the bloated carcass of Mountain Bull, one of our best known elephants in Northern Kenya, to

the direct threats presented by poorly planned mega- challenges. As we move into taking on new projects dams, power lines and all-weather roads in the same and investing in new landscapes I am determined to ensure we deliver to the same level of success, landscape. with the same level of commitment and passion, However, as ever, I remain hugely optimistic that we with the same cost-effective model for conservation can retain much of the world’s natural web of life, with investment. All of this requires new capacity, which all of its ecological processes. Why? Because I’ve also means finding and investing in new people, but more experienced what can and is being achieved through than anything, it requires culture, the medium through sensible conservation investments. In Laikipia, Kenya, which indefatigable passion for delivering nature for example, there has been a 74% decline in the conservation will be transmitted and maintained in illegal killing of elephants this year, compared with our growing organisation. This is enshrined in our new 2012. In addition, through one of the single largest five year strategic plan, where we have not only set conservation investments in Africa, a critical refuge out our immediate goals, but we have also captured for elephants and many other endangered species, The our core values. These will be used to harness and Loisaba Conservancy, covering 56,000 acres, is in the channel the energy of our board, our employees, our donors, our partners and our friends into tangible and process of being established. sustained conservation outcomes on the ground. The These are small but significant achievements that first of these outcomes must be the effective protection I am proud Space for Giants has been a part of. But of 10% of Africa’s elephants by 2020. I hope you will my greatest source of hope over the last two years join us on the long, difficult though perfectly attainable has been the overwhelming public response to our journey to meet this target. elephant appeal with The Independent in 2014. Not only was this the most successful charity appeal in the history of the paper from a financial perspective, but it also ignited a response from tens of thousands of people, from celebrities to old age pensioners to British politicians to media moguls to artists to athletes to primary school children to African leaders.

DR MAX GRAHAM This campaign ensured that our small charity has been propelled upwards to allow us to operate at a scale that can have a lasting impact on elephants, on the wild places they depend on, on the many species that share their range, for people, forever. Now that truly is exciting. However, growth comes with its own

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ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 2014

ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 2014

A letter from our patron Evgeny Lebedev crested the top, the view opened to reveal a herd of elephants around a waterhole.

visit to Libreville, President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon became a founding member of the Giants Club.

Almost all the adults were female, my grandfather explained, except for two young males. The larger one, he nicknamed Vladimir; the smaller one, Evgeny. I stared at the joy of them: the plodding feet, the curling trunks, the young ones nuzzling the grown-ups’ treetrunk legs. It was a scene which, even to my then 14-year-old self, was nature at its purest.

My grandfather always wanted me to be a zoologist.

I let him down in not achieving that but I still gained from him a love of nature and a life-long commitment to conservation and wildlife protection. That is why I am delighted and humbled that Space for Giants asked me to be patron. My grandfather would have approved: it’s what he taught me all those years ago, at my bedside.

Vladimir and Evgeny were young enough, then, to still be alive now, and they may well be, but as all supporters of Space for Giants know the numbers suggest otherwise. They could still be trumpeting around the African bush. But it’s more likely that what remains of them is an ivory dragon somewhere on a Chinese mantelpiece.

When I was a child, I had two special elephants, Vladimir and Evgeny. They have probably been killed by now. I was very lucky that I ever got to see them with my own eyes, but such are the perks for a little boy whose grandfather was the Soviet Union’s most senior biologist.

They were fictitious in the beginning, invented by my grandfather Vladimir Sokolov, as he tucked me in to bed at night. I would hear how Vladimir and Evgeny would get stuck in mud holes and roam the African forests getting into adventures. It was my first introduction to the wonder of wildlife.

A few years later, accompanying my grandfather on a government trip to Kenya, a battered Jeep took us to a ridge a couple of hours’ drive from Nairobi and, as we

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When I saw that herd there were around 1.2 million elephants in Africa. Three-quarters of those, including most likely many of the elephants I saw that day, have since been hunted for their tusks — and the numbers being lost are growing. This is why I am such a passionate supporter of Space for Giants’ work.

I recently visited Max and his team to see how the funds raised in the Christmas Appeal run last year by the newspapers I own, The Independent and London Evening Standard, are being spent.

What I saw was certainly encouraging: new antipoaching patrols in place and the conservancy in Loisaba progressing well. Plans are also underway to expand into other parts of Africa and, on our recent

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Elephant Appeal -The Independent Campaign Between 2 December 2013 and 21 February 2014 The Independent newspaper ran a charity appeal across its papers, in partnership with Space for Giants. The appeal was the most successful in the newspaper’s history, raising over £500,000, as well as national and international awareness of the elephant poaching crisis, and securing significant celebrity backing.

Articles were published in The Independent and its sister publications, The Evening Standard and The I, on a daily basis, highlighting not only Space for Giants’

work, but the critical challenges faced by elephants and other wildlife in Africa.

The interest and support from the general public was phenomenal and exceeded all expectations. As well as the significant finances raised during the appeal, individual celebrity endorsement raised Space for Giants’ profile considerably.

This included social media activity from Stephen Fry, Ronnie Wood, Graham Norton and Ed Milliband,

elephants in Kenya’s Maasai Mara national reserve; ivory can fetch 10 times the local price in asia

Independent broadcasting our message to an audience of millions of people around the world. In addition, David Cameron, Prince William, Elton John and several other public figures voiced their support by contributing articles or directly endorsing the campaign, providing a platform for lobbying for elephant protection on an international stage.

One of the most successful fund-raising tools of the campaign were the three charity auctions, in which 53 auction prizes were bought via eBay, generating a total value of £143,359. The highest value prizes include original works of art donated by Damian Hirst, Tracy Emin, Chapman Brothers, Nick Brandt and David Gulden, Conservation Safaris organised through Space for Giants and internships with Space for Giants, The Independent and Film Production Companies.

The appeal culminated in a final big push for donations and a petition to lobby world leaders to take action against wildlife crime at the upcoming London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade on 13 February 2014. In the lead-up to the conference, Space for Giants, together with the Tusk Trust, hosted a dinner for conference delegates at the House of Lords to inform the debate over the illegal ivory trade.

Senior representation from states who hold the largest remaining populations of elephants in Central and East Africa attended, including Tanzania’s Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, and the Ambassadors of Uganda, Chad, Mozambique and Cameroon.

They were joined by representatives of other concerned nations, leading experts, academics and conservationists. The political will to stop elephant poaching was overwhelmingly evident on the night.

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The campaign officially ended on 21 February 2014, and all funds raised, minus net costs, are being used directly for elephant conservation.

The greatest single conservation impact of the campaign to date has been a contribution to a more than 70% reduction in the illegal killing of elephants in Northern Kenya, compared with 2012 levels. The campaign also enabled Space for Giants to directly support the creation of a new 56,000 acre protected area, the Loisaba Conservancy, and provide support with putting in place habitat protection plans and projects across a much wider area.

The funds also allowed us to quickly fill gaps in local anti-poaching capacity by providing resources, training and equipment to a new elite rapid-response mobile unit operating in Northern Kenya, as well as providing logistical and technical support to a number of other wildlife protection teams in the region.

In addition, we were able to provide technical support to the Kenyan government to facilitate the upgrade and maintenance of the 163 West Laikipia Fence and further invest in our community education programme through performances of monthly educational plays to inform communities living in poaching hot spots of the value of elephants and details of new wildlife laws.

From a long-term perspective, the campaign has significantly contributed to our ability to harness international leaders and funding to scale up our work outside of Kenya into other elephant ranges in East, Central, West and Southern Africa.

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Nairobi gets tough on the ivory smugglers A new Kenyan law aims to quell poaching by increasing the notoriously light penalties for the growing illegal trade. vi d hi d oshi reports Poachers will think twice about smuggling ivory through Kenya, after a landmark ruling in Nairobi yesterday. Tang Yong Jian, who pleaded guilty to ivory smuggling, was fined 20m shillings (£140,000) under tough new anti-poaching laws, devised to curb poaching and the trafficking of endangered species. Tang, a Chinese national, will face up to seven years in jail if he is unable to pay the fine.

Tang is the first person to be fined under Kenya’s new Wildlife Conservation and Management act, which came into force last month. He was caught at Jomo Kenyatta international airport, in transit from Mozambique, and was carrying an elephant tusk weighing 3.4kg.

The magistrate William Oketch sentenced Tang under Section 92 of the new act.

When delivering his sentence yesterday, he said that even though Tang expressed remorse for his actions, he could not “claim ignorance since the growth in illegal trade in ivory and the involvement of Chinese citizens is a major concern internationally”.

He added: “In late October 2013, customs officers in Xiamen [south-east China] seized a 12-ton shipment of ivory

worth 600m yuan (£60m), the biggest ivory bust in Chinese history. The accused must have heard about this.”

Conservation organisations have applauded Kenya’s laws for increasing the costs and risks associated with smuggling ivory. Max Graham, CEO of Space for Giants, said the new bill was “the single most important piece of legislation for wildlife in Kenya”.

He told The Independent: “In Africa, Kenya is leading the way with introducing stiff penalties to protect the nation’s valuable natural heritage. This is a major step in the right direction for protecting the continent’s giants.”

The new law carries a minimum fine of 1m shillings (£7,000) or five years in jail.

The most serious offenders could get life imprisonment as well as a fine of 20m shil-

Kenya is leading the way with introducing stiff penalties. This is a major step for protecting the continent’s giants

lings for killing endangered species.

Previously, fines for wildlife crime were capped at 40,000 shillings (£280) or 10 years in prison in Kenya. Some poachers were fined as little as a dollar for each piece of ivory. Paul Udoto, a spokesperson for the Kenya Wildlife Service, told AFP news agency that the ruling was a “remarkable precedent” and rangers in Kenya would be motivated by seeing that poachers could no longer get away with a mere “slap on the wrist”.

Though trading ivory was banned in 1989, poaching in Kenya has surged in recent years. Ivory seizures at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi have risen year-on-year in the last five years as new demand for ivory in Asia fuels the devastation of the elephant population.

Just hours before the ruling against Tang, another Chinese national, in transit from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was arrested by airport security services. He was carrying necklaces, bracelets and pendants carved from elephant tusks.

Each kilogramme of ivory can sell for up to 18,000 Kenyan shillings (£126) locally.

When these items are taken

to Asia, they can fetch up to 10 times that.

Smuggling ivory carries notoriously light penalties across the world. When delivering his sentence, the judge commented that Mozambique had particularly weak laws on ivory and that “the situation is worsened by rampant corruption”.

In the UK, only last week, Alick Brown, 30, from Battersea in London was fined just £1,375 after pleading guilty to trading ivory and other illegal wildlife products on eBay. Brown was caught red-handed when the Wildlife Crime Unit raided his home in 2012.

After admitting to his role in the illegal trade, he was fined £250 for each of the three counts of selling and keeping products from endangered species; he was also charged £550 in costs and a £75 victim surcharge.

The Independent’s elephant appeal will support Space for Giants, who campaigned for Kenya’s new wildlife act and continue to defend elephants in Kenya. Follow our campaign in the run-up to the London conference on 12-13 February to alert and encourage world leaders to take firm action against the ivory trade.

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poaching was an issue he personally felt deeply about – and one that could profoundly affect future generations.

“It is an issue of real concern to people right across our country,” he told The Independent.

“We don’t want to be the generation that sees species that are so iconic and important in our world disappear.

That would be a terrible dereliction of our duty.

“So I feel a personal connection and enthusiasm with this project and I am delighted Britain is giving it such a lead.”

Mr Cameron added that he was hopeful of Chinese involvement in the confer-

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immediate difference, with not one penny going towards administrative costs.

But it’s not just about money. We have reported from across Africa on the criminal syndicates that control the illegal wildlife trade, the poachers who end up behind bars, the people who live among the elephants, and the countries that fear for their tourism industries.

The Independent on Sunday revealed that Prince William wants to destroy all of the ivory in Buckingham Palace and discovered that the crisis is not just about elephants: around 1,000 rangers have tragically lost their lives in the bid to stop their country’s wildlife being gunned down, while families across the continent have been torn apart by the trade. Terrorist groups, including alShabaab, are said to partly fund their activities through the sale of ivory.

Almost 1,500 people signed our petition which called on world leaders to commit to better training and resources for rangers; to provide education in places such as Asia; to stamp down on corruption and implement laws against those involved in the trade; to help communities develop sustainable livelihoods; and to

Half a million pounds will have a huge impact

uphold the ban on the trade.

Mary Rice, executive director of the Environmental Investigation Agency, said the campaign was “instrumental in helping the issues to achieve a huge public profile in the run-up to the watershed London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade”.

At that conference last week, delegates from 46 governments agreed to treat poaching and trafficking as “s e r i o u s c r i m e s ”. T h ey pledged for the first time to renounce the use of any products from species threatened by extinction; to support the commercial prohibition on the international trade in elephant ivory until the survival of elephants is no longer threatened by poaching; and to encourage countries to destroy their stockpiles of wildlife products, such as rhino horn and ivory.

The governments of Botswana, Chad, Ethiopia, Gabon and Tanzania even signed the Elephant Protection Initiative – guaranteeing to put their ivory stockpiles beyond economic use and observe a moratorium on international trade for a minimum of 10 years.

We have many supporters.

“The Independent deserves enormous credit for its campaigning journalism which

has done so much to demonstrate why the illegal trade in wildlife products, including elephant ivory and rhino horn, is an issue we should all care about,” said the Labour leader Ed Miliband, who along with celebrities including Sir Elton John, Clare Balding, Stephen Fry and Damian Lewis, backed the campaign.

Artists such as Damien Hirst, the Chapman Brothers and Tracey Emin kindly donated artworks to be auctioned off for the appeal. The Gertler Family Foundation – the largest charitable organisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo – also backed the campaign.

Dr Max Graham, founder of Space for Giants, said the campaign has been “transformational”. He hopes that 2014 will “be the year the tide turned for elephants, forever”.

Others agree.

“Half a million pounds will have a huge impact,” said Dr Paula Kahumbu, executive director of the Kenyan-based charity WildlifeDirect. “My hope is that it will also lead to local capacity building, so people will become champions for elephants; generating revenue so that it becomes an investment, not just a charitable donation.”

We hope so too.

In the coming months we will do even more to champion these vital causes and fight injustice

Independent readers’ generosity a staggering help Thank you max graHam

I was 16 when I saw my first African elephant. We were driving down a Kenyan track when out of nowhere appeared a six-ton elephant.

Our driver slammed on the brakes and stalled the engine. The bull charged towards us before stopping in a cloud of red dust.

For a moment he stared down at us. Then he suddenly turned and vanished into the surrounding forest.

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Securing Space - The Loisaba Conservancy The Loisaba Conservancy is a 56,000 acres property in north-west Laikipia - a critical refuge for large mammals and the most significant movement corridor for free ranging, migratory elephants moving between Laikipia and Samburu, in the north.

The property also supports an important tourism enterprise and community programme, providing employment, tourism income and dry season grazing for local communities. It has the potential to become an economic engine that generates benefits for people and wildlife, if managed well.

The future of the Loisaba Conservancy and its social and conservation benefits have been threatened by regional rangeland degradation, land sub-division and poorly planned infrastructure development. Lack of investment capital, escalating poaching, poverty and

insecurity were adding to the problems.

The conservation minded shareholders of the Loisaba Conservancy offered to transfer their share holding to a wholly Kenyan owned Conservation Trust, at a reduced price. Since 2012 Space for Giants and the Nature Conservancy have worked together to raise the funds to make this possible and in December 2014, the transaction was completed, securing the future of this critically important wildlife refuge, for Kenyans, forever. What a wonderful Christmas present that was!

The Loisaba Conservancy has a new board, with Space for Giants, the Nature Conservancy and the Northern Rangelands Trust represented. A new advisory council is also in the process of being created, with the intention of representation from local communities, the government and local landowners being able to

Securing Space - Wildlife Corridors and Forest Reserves participate in the Loisaba Conservancy’s community and conservation impacts. Significantly, a new tourism partner, Elewana, has also been locked into the project, helping with the upgrade and management of the Loisaba Conservancy’s tourism facilities to create a truly world class wilderness experience for visitors and generating the revenue to cover the significant conservation costs of the project.

By scaling up the eco-tourism and livestock operations and working with the Northern Rangelands Trust to expand their Livestock to Markets Programme - a programme that provides increased market access to pastoralists communities meeting stringent grazing, security and management standards - the Loisaba Conservancy will become a self-sustaining revenue engine for conservation and communities in Laikipia and beyond forever.

Nagum corridor

As part of our support to the Governor’s task force on human-elephant conflict mitigation, Space for Giants has been exploring what options are available for connecting the remaining gap in the West Laikipia fence, between the Laikipia Nature Conservancy and Sosian Ranch, across an area of abandoned smallholder land, known locally as Nagum. The conservation strategy (2012-2030) we developed for the county identified this area as one of the most significant sinks for wildlife, a place clearly suffering from a tragedy of the commons scenario. There has been a plan to secure a wildlife corridor for a number of years here but very little progress has been made to achieve this outcome.

Now, with the political will of the Governor, the support of local landowners, conservation organisations and the British Army, Space for Giants is looking to take this project forward by working with the local community to create a community conservancy by developing a feasibility study for the establishment of a community conservancy.

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Maria Coffey and their wonderful 100 mile walk with camels, organised through their company, Hidden Places Travel, we have slowly but surely scaled up our support for the 91,452ha Kirisia Hills in Samburu.

Initially, this project started as support for salaries for 14 scouts to patrol and protect the forest. However, it has since been increased to help build the governance capacity of the Community Forest Association (CFA).

In June of 2014 the CFA called an Annual General Meeting of its members to vote in office bearers.

Hundreds of community representatives attended, voting in a new board, representing a major milestone in the conservation of this critically important forest reserve and its giant inhabitants.

had been impeded by cultivation and development.

The Nyeri Governor would like that to change. The Mt Kenya-Aberdare Corridor has become his flagship project, and Space for Giants is working with his committee to help him succeed. In partnership with Rhino Ark, we have helped to identity the land parcels and associated ownership within the corridor. The next phase will involve negotiating with these landowners to establish what options are available to secure free movement of wildlife across their lands.

Left: Loisaba Conservancy. Photography: Maurice Schutgens Top Left: Max Graham with the Kirisia Hills scouts and community. Bottom right: Map showing proposed routes for the Aberdare - Mt Kenya corridor

Aberdare-Mt Kenya corridor

The movement of elephants between the forested massifs of Mt Kenya and the Aberdares has long caught the imagination of local conservationists. Up until relatively recently data captured by GPS collars deployed on two elephants (one cow and one bull) demonstrated that there was still movement of some elephants between Sangare, near Mweiga, and Mt Kenya, as far up as Mountain Lodge.

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Prevention of poaching 100,000 elephants were killed in the three year period between 2011 and 2013. North Kenya was no exception to this poaching surge.

As a consequence, in 2011, Space for Giants held an emergency summit, bringing local and national stakeholders together to discuss the worrying escalation in the illegal killing of elephants in Laikipia. A rapid response team was created as a result of that meeting.

This is comprised of Kenyan Police Reservists working under the management of Ol Pejeta Conservancy where they are tasked with the hugely challenging role of protection rhinos, including 4 of the world’s 7 last Northern White.

Local community members contribute funds to cover the cost of chartering an aircraft to deploy this team in response to poaching threats or incidents across this 10,000 km2 landscape, with the authority of the local police commander. The first deployment of this team was in June 2012. It has been remarkably successful, with 20 deployments resulting in 22 arrests, the recovery of 11 firearms and creating a real deterrent for poachers and traders operating here. This, combined with the work of the Kenya Wildlife Service and new wildlife laws, has resulted in more than 70% decline in reports of illegal killing of elephants in Laikipia. This decline is mirrored across the northern rangelands, where two other mobile Kenya Police Reservist teams, supported by our partners, the Northern Rangelands Trust, operate.

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public sector partnership occurs against a backdrop of constant or increasing elephant poaching across the African continent. This demonstrates a clear need and potentially, opportunity, to scale up this model of frontline protection for other vulnerable elephant populations. Based on this experience, what are the critical ingredients necessary for managing the illegal killing of wildlife on the frontline?

First, there has to be political will to enable an intervention to occur. Second, there needs to be a fresh recruitment process to ensure the best possible candidates are selected to provide high level frontline protection. Third, these rangers need to be adequately resourced and remunerated to ensure they are properly equipped and motivated. Fourth, frontline rangers need to be provided with good training and ongoing mentorship by proven leaders in the field of wildlife protection. Finding and/or securing an enabling environment to fulfil all four of these criteria and the right individuals to provide leadership is highly challenging in the context of the corruption that pervades the illegal wildlife trade. It is one of the many reasons behind our Giants Club initiative, described in this report.

Beyond frontline protection, Space for Giants and our partners have contributed to building the capacity of the judiciary in Kenya at several levels in 2013 and 2014. Through our support for Vision 2050 and in partnership with Wildlife Direct and the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association we helped to provide technical input into the new wildlife bill, signed into law by the President at the end of 2013. This raised

penalties for wildlife crime significantly. For example being caught in possession of ivory incurred a penalty of up to Ksh 40,000 ($440) under former legislation whilst under new legislation it can result in a penalty of Ksh 20,000,000 ($222,000) or life imprisonment.

Indeed Kenya’s new wildlife bill contains the strictest wildlife protection legislation on the African continent.

However, wildlife legislation alone is not sufficient to result in successful convictions of wildlife criminals.

This was demonstrated by an extraordinary report produced by Wildlife Direct in 2014 showing that only 4% of those convicted of wildlife crime actually went to jail. These findings led Space for Giants to work with local magistrates with the objective of building capacity along the entire criminal trial process, from the scene of the crime, to the point of conviction. In 2014 we held three workshops with local magistrates to help design a simple training workshop for court users (including frontline rangers, police investigators, prosecutors and magistrates). The first of these is due to be held in early 2015 with a view to creating a programme that can be subsequently rolled out across wildlife ranges across the country.

National Geographic & Wildize Foundations awards Space for Giants two Conservation Grants National Geographic & Wildize Foundation supported Space for Giants with significant grants towards frontline protection efforts in Laikipia County, contributing towards the costs of our elephant researcher, Joseph Wahome, a dedicated MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) officer, Charles Kinyua and 30 community scouts and their supervisor, David Wanjau. This support also helped us to create and roll out a new interactive community play on the illegal killing of wildlife for our drama group to perform in poaching hot spots. It is this support that played a significant role in reducing the illegal killing of elephants in this landscape and has helped us to design our long term anti-poaching programme here.

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Mitigating human - wildlife conflict The West Laikipia Fence Project: An Update

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The Laikipia Plateau, located along the boundary of Africa’s Great Rift Valley is an area of unparalleled natural beauty, home to 6,365 elephants, making it the most important refuge for Kenya’s second largest population of elephants. Despite these significant numbers, historical records have shown that elephants were rarely seen on the plateau till the 1970s. The influx of elephants to Laikipia was driven by a need for safe sanctuaries in response to severe poaching in Samburu to the north. They found their sanctuary in Laikipia. And never left!

The overall effectiveness of the fence in terms of preventing elephants from passing onto cultivated lands however has been varied across space and time since the moment contractors put in the first pole. By 2013, elephants had broken the fence on no less than 2,950 separate occasions. In desperation the LWF sought assistance from Space for Giants to develop more appropriate fence designs, a fence management protocol and a comprehensive monitoring system.

These developments reduced crop raiding along smallholder farms by over 50%. The project was handed back by Space For Giants to the LWF in June 2012.

The elephants however, were not the only immigrants to Laikipia in post-independence Kenya. Large numbers of smallholder farmers from central Kenya settled on subdivided land owned by both government and private enterprises. Their presence, alongside the remaining large-scale ranches in Laikipia has contributed to a landscape representing a land-use mosaic where people and wildlife are forced to share space and resources. Therein lies much of the challenge!

Since mid-2012 certain sections of the fence have slowly fallen into disrepair or disappeared altogether.

Mounting costs of fence maintenance due to habitual fence breaking elephants, illegal grazers and a lack of proper enforcement have taken their toll on limited financial resources. Nevertheless, in light of the costs experienced by both smallholder farmers and elephants (through retaliatory killings) the fence remains a priority for Laikipia County.

Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) in Laikipia today is amongst the worst in East Africa and possibly the most severe in Kenya. Crop destruction, property damage and loss of human lives are an all too frequent reality for smallholder farmers. This is however, not a recent phenomenon. The importance of a resolution to this challenge has been discussed as far back as 1982 when plans for a Laikipia-wide fence were proposed.

Fast-forward 30 years to 2012 and the 163Km West Laikipia Fence Project was completed by the Laikipia Wildlife Forum (LWF).

With political support from the Governor of Laikipia, His Excellency Joshua Irungu, and the HEC Taskforce he initiated in 2014, there is renewed optimism for the success of the West Laikipia Fence Project. Space for Giants has taken the lead on the project to review the current status of the entire fence, propose a suitable fence design along its entirety and bring landowners together to discuss the maintenance of the fence to ensure its long-term sustainability.

targeted the issue of fence vandalism to ensure higher prosecution rates of offenders. Pastoralists have in the past and continue to severely damage the fence in order to gain access to pasture on large-scale ranches. The task force is working with landowners, the government and pastoralist community to identify how best to address this challenge.

Furthermore, to improve community governance of and benefits derived from abandoned smallholder land in Northern Laikipia, Space for Giants is exploring a partnership with the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK) to work with local communities to create new community conservancies that could be used for training purposes. This would bring much needed governance to an area of general insecurity and provide additional security to elephants in Laikipia.

The upgrade and final construction of the West Laikipia Fence project are due to commence in 2015. Watch this space!

Left: Map showing existing fences and the West Laikipia Fence. Right: The West Laikipia Fence.

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Fencing the frontline: the implications of electrified fences on elephants and society - by Lauren Evans The handing over of my PhD thesis to the University of Cambridge library marked the end of a three and a half year journey. It was a liberating but disconcerting feeling.

I found myself almost wanting to hold onto it…

My conservation interests have always centred on the interactions between people and wildlife. Elephants embody so many of the challenges and contradictions of humans sharing space with animals: large, destructive, dangerous, locally feared and reviled, yet charismatic, sagacious, and internationally protected and iconised. I wanted to study how we manage our relationship with elephants on the ground.

Electrified fences are increasingly being used as the silver bullet solution to human-elephant conflict across much of African elephant range. Yet many fences fail in their objectives: as elephants adapt to break them or due to a lack of institutional capacity to maintain them. I set out to understand why fences were such an attractive prospect to communities, politicians and conservationists; why fences varied in their ability to prevent the passage of elephants; and what were the social and political implications of large electrified fences built across landscapes occupied by diverse stakeholders. To do this, my research had to be interdisciplinary – to fully understand both elephant and human interactions with fences.

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finish. Space for Giants’ experience with humanelephant conflict mitigation, their monitoring of the performance of the 163km West Laikipia Fence, their network of scouts, GPS collars on fence–breaking elephants, all provided me with invaluable support.

I spent many nights and early mornings with Joseph Wahome carefully predicting where elephants might approach the fence to position camera traps. I spent many days driving along the West Laikipia Fence assessing the design and the damage done by elephants. I spent many weeks weaving my way around Laikipia talking to people living and using land alongside fences. I spent many hours with George Aike creating maps and analyzing what factors affected where elephants broke fences.

My PhD resulted in new understanding about human and elephant interactions with electrified fences. Its key findings were: Though a simple, technical solution to humanelephant conflict, the construction of electrified fences served different political purposes for different actors.

For some, the fence played a dual, unstated role of excluding pastoralists from private land as well keeping elephants out of cultivated areas.

Elephants broke fences in particular places with particular technical and ecological attributes (low voltage, near to cultivation, far from roads). Along technically sophisticated and well-maintained fences, however, the spatial determinants of elephant fencebreaking were unpredictable. I argue that this may be due to individual elephant behaviour and show how certain bull elephants carried out most fence-

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breaks and did so in particular places, using individual techniques.

The fence was effective at preventing the movement of elephants only under certain institutional conditions.

Unlike porous fences, effective fences, both communal and private, were maintained with clear leadership, motivation, ownership and investment.

The variability in fence performance had contrasting and powerful consequences for different actors.

Effective fences improved relationships between certain actors through the physical and social separation they created. Porous fences created conflict between actors, as elephants and livestock-keepers resisted the boundaries imposed on them.

Ultimately my PhD shows that electrified fences are not the simple panacea they are often framed as. Elephants will resist our human-ordering and break even the most sophisticated fences. Fences require significant financial and institutional capacity to maintain them. They can reinforce categories of inclusion and exclusion.

I am continuing this research under a post-doctorate at the University of Cambridge. My current focus is on how our understanding of human-elephant relations could unfold if we seriously considered the agency of elephants in forging sociopolitical outcomes. Meanwhile I am continuing to work with Space for Giants to inform best practice with regards to human-elephant conflict mitigation in the Laikipia and Amboseli ecosystems, and beyond.

Update from Tobias Ochieng on his PhD research at Cambridge University

IData capture & Training for Mount Kenya Trust and KWS, Mpala Research Centre - George Aike During July of 2014 we brought together 23 field based staff from both the Mount Kenya Trust and the Kenya Wildlife Service for a 3 day GPS/GIS training workshop.

The workshop provided an in-depth understanding of the importance of wildlife and habitat monitoring, the importance of standardized data collection and its proper storage, as well as the use of GPS technology as a data collection tool. All of these applications are crucially important to document the trends in rare and endangered species, as well as any illegal activities in the wider Laikipia ecosystem.

This workshop equipped them with valuable skills and a greater understanding that will ultimately improve the accuracy of data collected and make their work more enjoyable.

Interactive Drama Group Update - Samuel Githui Interactive drama performances between 2013 and 2014 were the highlight of Space For Giants’ community outreach programme in Education.

A new anti poaching play performed by our very experienced “elephant thespians” explored perception of local people’s understanding of elephants and their value, attitudes of illegal trade of ivory and knowledge of the law regarding wildlife.

The drama was performed in 16 sites adjoining areas known to have been elephant poaching hotspots capturing a total audience of more than 5000 adults and school children. While it is difficult to assess the true impact of the performances, we have found that in some of the areas where the drama group performed, local people provided information on poachers to the authorities, leading to arrests. This suggests that the performed plays have empowered community members to appreciate that the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory benefits an individual at the expense of the whole community.

Tobias Ochieng had been working in humanwildlife conflict in Northern Kenya for more than a decade when Space for Giants supported him to start a PhD at Cambridge University in October 2013.

In his research, he is exploring the “Hidden Aspects of Human Elephant Interactions and their Impacts on Human Wellbeing in Trans Mara District, Kenya”, where conflict between people and wildlife is an increasing problem.

His studies primarily employ a new framework for understanding the impacts of conservation initiatives on the wellbeing of local residents.

Tobias hopes that this framework will provide a novel and useful means to understanding humanelephant conflict and is currently carrying out field research in Kenya, as well as analysing his findings in residence at Cambridge.

Once Tobias completes his PhD, he plans to return to East Africa to share his skills and expertise with organisations on the ground and help to develop new projects that effectively mitigate humanelephant conflict.

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“Today I am proud to say that Gabon has further bolstered its commitment by signing an agreement with the renowned Space for Giants organisation. We are joining its exclusive forum of political and business leaders working to safeguard at least 40,000 African elephants by 2020,” His Excellency, Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabonof

The Giants Club Launched at the end of 2014, the Giants Club is a new and unique initiative by Space for Giants. As an exclusive membership initiative, it brings together leading mineral extraction companies, political and business leaders to fight wildlife crime on all fronts.

Members of the club commit to using their political leverage or provide financial support – particularly for operations in the geographical areas they work in - to help secure Africa’s remaining elephant populations and the landscapes they depend on.

As well as supporting the protection of elephants on the ground, the Club will also be addressing the root cause of the poaching crisis: the demand for ivory. It is well known that the majority of poached tusks are smuggled into Asia, and particularly to China, where demand for ivory products is growing. Multinational extraction companies have key relationships in Asia and can therefore provide valuable insights, and use their influence to articulate the value of conservation in China and beyond.

The last ten years have seen a dramatic increase in the ivory trade and, consequently, a dramatic decline of wild elephant populations. The Giants Club will support Space for Giants’ conservation target to effectively protect at least 10% of the remaining elephants in Africa and their landscapes by 2020. It’s a big goal but we have a clear plan on how to achieve it.

Based on our experience of working in Northern Kenya, where poaching has declined by more than 70% since 2012, we will be investing in the protection and management of priority elephant populations and

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landscapes in East, Central, South and West Africa.

This will involve: • Building front-line anti-poaching capacity; • Building capacity among law enforcement personnel and the judiciary to enable successful prosecutions for those involved in wildlife crime; • Strategic conservation planning for priority landscapes, including support for national elephant action plans; • Support for the management of human-elephant conflict in priority landscapes; • Support to secure critical habitat for elephant conservation and; • Support to secure sustainable conservation based revenue to maintain effective conservation of priority landscapes.

The delivery of this work directly supports the global Elephant Protection Initiative, announced by African heads of state at the London Conference in February 2014. Our alignment with this initiative ensures that the work supported by the Giants Club is endorsed at the highest political levels by the global conservation community, fulfils the priorities established by African elephant range states, is partnership-based and is regularly reviewed and assessed by an independent panel of experts.

So far, the Giants Club has been extremely well received. The launch event, in the House of Lords, on 17th December was attended by diplomats from Tanzania, Kenya and Gabon. Representatives from the mining industry included David Morgan, Chairman of NordGold; Socrates Vasiliades, Head of Core

Mining; and Ian Middlemas, Chairman of Equatorial Mining; Clive Newall and Philip Pascal, President and Chairman of First Quantum Minerals respectively; and Peter Bacchus, Global Head of Metals and Mining at Jefferies Bank. World Cup winning England rugby player Will Greenwood also attended the event.

Since then, we have also had our first President join: Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon, who has already instigated a series of conservation initiatives to protect the country’s dwindling forest elephant population.

Above: Space for Giants CEO, Dr Max Graham and Patron, Evgeny Lebedev, during a ceremony in Libreville with Ali Bongo, President of Gabon. During the ceremony Ali Bongo signed a declaration of support for the Giants Club.

Left: Photography: David Gulden.

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Adopting an elephant

Elephants Live In January 2014, Space for Giants launched a new communications campaign to raise awareness of elephant behaviour and the challenges elephants face in their shrinking habitat. Four of Space for Giants’ collared elephants joined Twitter to share their daily adventures via data from their GPS collars.

The collars are used to track elephants who are particularly vulnerable or are known fence breakers.

By keeping an eye on them, we can react quickly to avoid them coming into conflict with people.

The collars have two innovative characteristics. Firstly they are programmed to record hourly positions, which are sent to our server via mobile phone network.

Secondly, the collars are programmed to send a message when the elephant approaches a designated landscape feature (called a “geo-fence”). This could be a fence or

a watering hole or meeting another elephant.

Last year, Space for Giants also developed a ground breaking mobile-phone based platform. It displays the movements of the collared elephants in real time, including the messages triggered by geo-fences, creating a regular flow of real time and contextual information that can be translated into feeds on Twitter for each elephant.

The tweets cover the four elephants’ most significant movements – this could be Kimani peacefully ambling around Meru National Park, or Carlos straying too close to smallholder farms. The tweets also include particular personal traits Space for Giants has picked up from following the elephants over a long period of time. Any movement data we share is at least 48 hours old, and we never tweet exact locations - to keep the elephants safe from poachers.

The campaign was a big success when it was first launched in January 2014, attracting more than 1,500 new Twitter followers and featuring on the home page of The Independent website. The Twitter feed has now also been incorporated in a joined CCTV Africa and UNEP online TV channel about wildlife aimed at Chinese viewers.

In December 2014, Space for Giants launched a new ground-breaking online donation platform, allowing donors to adopt one or more elephants in vulnerable elephant landscapes across Africa.

Space for Giants’ new strategic aim is to protect at least 10% of Africa’s elephants living in the most vulnerable landscapes by 2020. Based on current estimates, this is roughly 40,000 individuals. It is an ambitious target, and we decided to create an innovative and fun tool for people to get involved in helping us achieve this goal.

PROTECTING AFRICA’S LAST ELEPHANTS Thank you for your donation

By adopting one or more elephants you have brought us one step closer to securing the future of Africa’s elephants in the wild. It’s a task more urgent than ever: Over the last three years (2011 to 2013), more than 100,000 elephants have been killed across Africa for their ivory. Poachers are increasingly well training and have access to sophisticated weapons, posing a dangerous challenge to wildlife rangers and anti-poaching teams.

Space for Giants’ aim is to protect at least 10% of Africa’s elephants living in the most vulnerable landscapes by 2020. Based on current estimates, that’s roughly 40,000 individuals. It’s an ambitious target, but we strongly believe that with the generosity of people like you, we can achieve it.

Your donation will go towards providing frontline protection for elephants across these priority landscapes.

A tried and tested model

Since 2012, we have experienced an 87% reduction in poaching levels in Laikipia, where we currently work. Our approach in Laikipia has been built on collaborative working with a wide range of local stakeholders, employing the frontline protection strategies explained above.

Working in partnership and involving local communities in conservation work are crucial components in our work. After all, if people don’t value wildlife, then wildlife has no future!

We are certain that our success in Laikipia can be repeated in other landscapes by adapting our conservation work to local conditions. So by supporting us, you have invested in a tried and tested conservation model that has great potential to significantly reduce elephant poaching rates in Africa.

Frontline protection usually includes research into elephant movements, building local antipoaching capacity, including better equipment, and investing in Rapid Response Anti-poaching Teams. It also involves supporting legislation and law enforcement to increase successful prosecutions for wildlife crimes.

Chad South Sudan Central African Republic Cameroon Congo Gabon

Democratic Republic of Congo

Kenya

Tanzania Angola Zambia

Namibia

Mozambique

Zimbabwe Botswana

African Elephant Range

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People will be able to choose a picture and name for their elephant, receive an adoption certificate and will be kept informed about progress of our work via email. Donations will go towards providing frontline protection for elephants across the priority landscapes in East, Central, South and West Africa.

This frontline protection will be adapted to the local context, but is likely to include research into elephant movements, building local anti-poaching capacity, including better equipment, and investing in Rapid Response Anti-poaching Teams.

It also involves supporting legislation and law enforcement to increase successful prosecutions for wildlife crimes.

During the first phase of the project, people will be able to adopt one of the estimated 6,365 elephants roaming the Laikipia / Samburu Ecosystem. This landscape is the heart of East Africa’s conservancy movement, where private and community landowners are increasingly committing their land to conservation.

However, the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory has undermined conservation efforts here, with 2011 and 2012 some of the worst years in living memory for wildlife poaching.

Once all elephants in the Laikipia ecosystem have been adopted, and sufficient funds raised for their effective protection, elephants in other landscapes will become available for adoption.

Space for Giants has been working with partners to overcome these challenges, and while our efforts have led to significant gains in terms of reductions in poaching, maintaining this effort requires more help.

We are currently in the process of developing frontline protection projects for these identified landscapes, in close collaboration with African governments and our partners on the ground.

We have prioritised African elephant landscapes for conservation investment on the basis of the size of the elephant populations they hold, the extent of elephant range available, and their broader biodiversity value, as well as our chances of achieving conservation success.

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News Managing Human-Elephant Conflict in the Amboseli Ecosystem

Elephant and Castle Billboard An exciting opportunity came up for us at the end of August 2014. A huge 12m high by 10m wide (bigger than an elephant!) poster was erected at the busy roundabout at Elephant & Castle in London. The striking image of a baby elephant invited passers-by to make a text donation to support our anti-poaching work.

Human-elephant conflict (HEC) is rapidly becoming the biggest threat to elephants and people in the Amboseli ecosystem, with heavy costs borne on the farmlands on the upper slopes of Kilimanjaro, and on permanent wetlands.

This is resulting in an increasing number of elephant deaths and destruction of people’s crops and livelihoods.

Rugby for Giants Space for Giants launched its new partnership with London-based rugby club Saracens at the start of the rugby season in 2014.

“Rugby for Giants” is a fantastic opportunity for us to highlight the plight of African elephants in their shrinking habitats to a completely new audience and raise much-needed funds for our future work.

A dedicated film has been produced which is being screened during matches and the charity is being promoted via Saracens’ website and social media. In addition, players are wearing shorts with the Space for Giants logo, and we have the opportunity to run fundraising events on three designated match days during the year. Thanks to Saracens players, staff and supporters for all their terrific support

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The billboard space is kindly being sponsored by King-Out-Of-Home, a UK based outdoor advertising company and is continuing to be displayed at intervals, when the space if vacant. So far, the campaign has not only raised money, but also awareness, as shown by the social media activity it is generating.

However cultivation is expanding at an unprecedented rate and the boundary between cultivation and elephant range is shifting. Space for Giants is providing technical support to Big Life, the Amboseli Ecosystem Trust, KWS and other local partners to assess current and future changes in land use and tenure; to asses the feasibility of using electrified fences to prevent crop-raiding; and to develop a HEC mitigation strategy for the Amboseli Ecosystem.

Interactive Microsoft App raised awareness of elephant poaching During September 2014, Space for Giants benefited from high profile advertising across all Microsoft platforms and a dedicated webpage with state-of-theart design as part of a new partnership with Microsoft Corporation.

The website was highly interactive, allowing users to follow six elephants along their daily journey, and to explore the problems they might come across, via an animated elephant landscape. People were able to click on various hotspots to learn about the elephants’ habitat and common threats.

During the campaign, we received more than 1,000 visits to our online donations page and website, generating much needed funds and awareness of our cause.

Race the Wild Project “Angry birds” was downloaded 350 million times by September 2011, demonstrating the huge popularity of mobile phone-based gaming. Researchers from Cambridge University (Professor Bill Adams & Dr Chris Sandbook) believe the gaming industry provides an opportunity to advance social causes, including biodiversity conservation.

To this end, they have developed a project called “Race the Wild” with which Space for Giants is partnering. The proposition here is to give the users of hugely popular exercise apps (there are over 20 million active users) the opportunity to measure their performance against wild animals, such as elephants, by using animal movement data. An initial trial of the game involved downloading data from four of our collared elephants in Northern Kenya and using the daily movements of these elephants to create a challenge distance for people to race against, using whatever medium they choose (swimming, bicycling or on foot).

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Strategy Diagram

Space For Giants Strategic Plan In 2014, Space for Giants developed its new strategic plan, outlining our goals and operational plans from 2014 to 2020. These are summarised here. Our Core Purpose is to conserve wild African elephants and the landscapes on which they depend.

Our Core Values:

1. Competence: We aspire to produce conservation outcomes, pragmatically, cost-effectively and to the highest possible standard.

2. Community: We believe that the development and maintenance of strong, long-lasting relationships within our team, with our partners and with our supporters will enable us to deliver the best possible conservation outcomes.

3. Legacy: We aspire to operate at a scale where we can have a meaningful impact in time and space.

Our core business aims are:

1. Wildlife protection: Building capacity to protect and manage vulnerable elephant populations in priority landscapes across Africa.

2. Securing habitat: Supporting land tenure and management arrangements to secure and maintain priority landscapes critical for the survival of large wild animals in Africa.

3. Connecting people with nature: Providing extraordinary experiences that connect people with large wild animals and their natural habitats.

4. Minimising the costs of living with wildlife: Providing technical expertise to prevent human–elephant conflict.

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Wildlife protection:

Our target is to provide frontline protection to at least 10% of Africa’s elephants by 2020. To achieve this, we will continue to support the North Kenya Community Policing Initiative to effectively protect the region’s key elephant population. We will also build capacity for frontline protection for elephants in at least four other priority landscapes through a dedicated subsidiary organisation. Sustainable financing to support these efforts will be raised through the Giants Club (see page 15) and individual fund-raising campaigns such including “adopt an elephant” (page 17).

In addition our partnership with the Elephant Protection Initiative, launched by the Governments of Botswana, Chad, Ethiopia, Gabon & Tanzania at the 2014 London Conference on Wildlife Crime is helping us to build the access and relationships to enable us to deliver on our targets.

Securing habitat:

We will continue to support the Loisaba Conservancy to become an effective engine for conservation and community support in the wider Laikipia Ecosystem.

We will develop landscape-scale conservation plans in at least four other landscapes by 2020. We will use our growing expertise in conservation land transactions to provide technical support and where possible, financial resources, to our partners to secure critical wildlife habitat within these landscapes.

Connecting people with nature:

We will build on the success of our Elephants Live Project (see page 16) by creating a more compelling set of data to further engage the public in real time

elephant behaviour. Through our dedicated subsidiary, “Journeys for Giants”, we will create a unique set of itineraries for conservation safaris and challenges to help us build a highly influential support base and sustainable funding for our conservation work.

Core Purpose To conserve African elephants and the landscapes on which they depend

Core Values

Wherever possible we will look to build capacity for wildlife conservation in Africa through “on the job” training within our team, among our partners and within the communities that we operate.

COMPETENCE

LEGACY

Core Business

Minimising the cost of living with elephants:

By 2017, through our support for the Governor’s task force on human-elephant conflict and associated work on the West Laikipia Fence, we will have reduced incidents of crop-raiding by elephants to manageable levels in the Laikipia ecosystem. By 2020 we will share our technical experience with practitioners on at least four other landscapes in Africa which are suffering from high levels of human-elephant conflict.

COMMUNITY

WILDLIFE PROTECTION

SECURING HABITAT

CONNECTING PEOPLE TO NATURE

HUMAN-WILDLIFE CONFLICT MITIGATION

Reduce the illegal killing of elephants in the Laikipia Ecosystem by 90% by 2016.

Support The Loisaba Conservancy to become an engine for conservation and community support in Northern Kenya.

Enable the global public to engage with elephants, in real time, through social media.

Reduce human-elephant conflict in Laikipia to manageable levels by upgrading and maintaining the 163km West Laikipia Fence.

Effectively protect 10% of Africa’s elephants by 2020, across 5 priority landscapes by building capacity through a dedicated subsidiary.

Partner with the Elephant Protection Initiative and help African Governments implement their National Elephant Action Plans.

Develop and support the delivery of landscape scale conservation plans for four priority elephant landscapes in Africa.

Build our support base through the provision of unique conservation experiences and challenges through Journeys for Giants.

Build capacity for wildlife conservation in Africa through training and education.

Provide technical support for the management of human-elephant conflict in at least four other landscapes by 2020.

Establish and secure membership of the Giants Club.

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Journeys for Giants Space for Giants invites you to join a one-of-a-kind African adventure to experience first hand, our crucial conservation work and the magnificent animals we strive to protect. Not only will you explore the breathtaking landscapes of East Africa, you will also experience traditional African culture, search for the “Big Five”, and enjoy access to our leading conservationists and researchers striving to secure a future for Africa’s giants.

Journeys for Giants – life changing adventures for wildlife conservation.

Conservation Safaris

Journeys for Giants has had a busy couple of years welcoming our supporters to Kenya and showing them our work on the ground here in Laikipia. From our 3 sets of auction winners through our Christmas 2013 Elephant Appeal with The Independent, and fact finding safaris for The Independent proprietor Evgeny Lebedev and his team, to England rugby legend Will Greenwood and his family and friends, to a fabulous safari of supporters organized through our US ambassador Rita Cabases, we have been proud and excited to have the opportunity to inspire more people to get involved in the protection of Africa’s remaining elephants.

Conservation Challenges

Our conservation challenges kicked off to an amazing start in October 2013 with our inaugural Climb for Giants, raising an incredible $120,000, thanks to 14 intrepid adventurers willing to brave Mt Kenya for our Giants. This year in September, another 4 climbers conquered the mountain, raising an impressive $9700.

September 2013 saw a team of trekkers set off to walk 100 miles across Laikipia, with the inaugural 100 Miles for Elephants expedition. Space for Giants cohost these amazing journeys with Hidden Places Travel and its conservation arm Elephant Earth, and together with treks in February and another in September 2014, these challenges have raised approximately $70,000 of vital funds to combat the poaching crisis in Africa.

A massive thank you to the climbers, trekkers, and to Dag and Maria of Elephant Earth, for their unwavering commitment to elephant conservation.

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For more information: E-mail: journeys@spaceforgiants.org Call: +254 729636244

JOURNEYS FOR GIANTS Life-changing adventures for wildlife conservation

Are you ready to test yourself physically and mentally in one of the most beautiful, wild places left on earth, to help secure a future for Africa’s remaining elephants?

JOIN US IN 2015 for the challenge of a life-time: Climb for Giants: 7th to 11th September 2015 100 Miles for Elephants: 19th to 27th September 2015

Each safari we organize is bespoke and unique to the individual supporter, but experiences can include elephant monitoring and tracking (should time and circumstances allow), interactive community conservation education, meeting the rapid-response anti-poaching teams, spending time with our study elephants and learning how to identify individuals, walking with a train of camels along the Laikipia elephant corridors, and much more.

A 12-Day Safari For Conservation Space for Giants invites you to join a one-of-a-kind exclusive African adventure to experience first-hand, our crucial conservation work and the magnificent animals we strive to protect. Not only will you explore the breathtaking landscapes of Laikipia, the Masai Mara and northern Kenya, you will also experience African cultures, search for the ‘Big Five’, and enjoy unparalleled access to our leading conservationists and researchers striving to secure a future for Africa’s giants, forever.

CONSERVATION HIGHLIGHTS: Elephant Collaring Operation (if time and circumstances allow) Interactive Community Conservation Education Meeting the Rapid Response Anti-Poaching Team Spending time with our study elephants and learning how to identify individuals Walking with a train of camels along the Laikipia elephant corridors

England Rugby Star, Will Greenwood Conservation Safari - Caro Greenwood

“Along with our 3 young children we spent 2 weeks in Kenya organised entirely by Journeys For Giants. To say that it was the experience of a life time does not come close. What we saw and shared with our family and close friends was way beyond our expectations.

We went from the privilege of seeing breathtaking wild animals close up, to fishing on Mount Kenya, riding a horse on the stunning African plains, a camel safari, sleeping under the stars and so much more. Journeys For Giants’ attention to detail and knowledge was exceptional, they thought of everything. The children put their ipads away and barely watched a minute of a movie, there was too much to do and see. It’s difficult to put into so few words how remarkable our holiday was, we felt excited, awe struck and safe every day. What’s equally remarkable is the vital conservation work that Space For Giants carry out, it’s at the heart of everything they do and believe in.

They educated us and the children in the crucial work that they do protecting the critically endangered elephants and rhinos from poaching, the knowledge that a percentage of the cost of our trip helps these magnificent animals is phenomenal and so important to us. We are already planning our next expedition, Africa is well and truly under our skin and this is largely down to the experience that Journeys For Giants made possible.“

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Financial Statement

African Elephant Range

Our Partners A Giant thank you to all the organisations we worked closely with in 2013 & 2014 to help us achieve our conservation goals.

Rhino Ark 51 Degrees Saracens Rugby Club

Statement of Revenues and Expenses US$ Combined Calendar Years 2013 & 2014

Big Life

Analysis of Expenditure

Borana Conservancy

REVENUE Donations, Grants & Contracts

$1,297,682

TOTAL REVENUE

$1,297,682

Fundraising & Administration 13%

Hidden Places/ Elephant Earth Initiative South Sudan

Kenya Wildlife Service

Central African Republic

$673,589

Cameroon

$100,114

Gabon

Congo

Fundraising and Administration

TOTAL EXPENSES

$773,703

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS

$523,979

Democratic Republic of Congo

King Out Of Home

Kenya

The Nature Conservancy Tusk USA US Fish and Wildlife Service

Project Costs 87%

Tanzania

University of Cambridge Loisaba Wilderness

Angola Zambia

Namibia

Wildize Foundation Mozambique

Microsoft

Zimbabwe Botswana

Northern Rangelands Trust

African Elephant Range

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Possible Known International boundary

0

500

1,000

2,000 km

Ol Pejeta Conservancy Knowsley Safari Park The Laikipia Wildlife Forum

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The Independent

Laikipia County Government

Converted from Kenyan accounts at a rate of Ksh 90 to $USD 1 Note: This financial report is based on un-audited financial statements and though every care has been taken to ensure they are accurate, they could change in line with the auditor’s recommendations.

Suyian Trust

Chad

EXPENSES Programme Activities

Stop Ivory

Ol Jogi The Leopardess Foundation The Laikipia Nature Coservancy The Loisaba Conservancy National Geographic

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A giant thank - you to Our Donors £20000 +

Cetrad Nicholas Evans Charles Gardiner Leopardess Foundation The Nature Conservancy TUSK Trust USFWS

£5000 to £19999

Sue Anschutz-Rogers Ana Arellano M. Baker Chris Bartlett Rita Cabases Elephant Earth Initiative Benjamin Faes Gertler Family Foundation Hugh Grant David Gulden Virginia Halliwell Dr J. M. King Knowsley Safari Park Kathleen McBride John McBride National Geographic Robin Odey Andy Parker Prudential PLC James Reid Salvador Saravia Segal Family Foundation Robert Stiff Wildize Foundation Dan Wong

£1000 to £4999

Gina Allum Jon Austen Christine Baron George Breeze Catherine Brown Richard Caring CBRE Charitable Trust Mark Crutchley Denver Foundation Elizabeth Suero Trust Peter Fattorini Zack Feather Hildon Foundation Knight Frank Geoffrey Osbourne Ltd

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Andrew & Julia Green G. Herman Hertford Street Limited John Hughes Melissa Jan Margetts Raj Kapur Namsi Khan Mr Pierre Lagrange Peter Lawrence J. MacGregor Serina Montgomery Garst Kathleen Moyse Clare Norton Alison Rimmer Piers Rouse Jacqueline S. Russells Katharine Shepherd Mark Sibley Rosemary Sinton Philip St Pier Mr John Stanley Miss Caroline Thimbleby Richard Verdi Elizabeth Anne Walton J. Weblin Duncan Weir Katherine West Martin Woodcock Kenneth Woolfenden

£150 to £999

Jane Allan T & J Andras Robert Atkinson Frances Balfour Stephen & Beverly Bannister Melvin Barker Ed Barrett R. Bartels Rebecca Bartlett Glenn Beard Shirley Berry Norman Birtles T. Bond Robby Bow David Bowd Anton Bowker-Douglass Francis Brewis Stephen Brosnan Bryson Corbett Charitable Trust Katherine Buckley

How to Donate Owen Burke Stephen Burnside Edward Butterfield Russell Buxton Lucy Cambell John Camp Sheila Campbell David Cannon Guy Clay John Clayton Rachel Clayton Charles Cocksedge Peter Coe Elaine Collins Chelsea H. Congdon Connaught House School Ilga Cookson Stephen Cooper Andrew Corbett-Nolan Terence Couchman Stephen Crane Maria Cronan Dr B. R. M. Crook James Crouch Luis da Silva Katherine Jill Dalton H. & J. Davies Elizabeth Davis Sandra de Rek A. Dean Bruce Dear Anna Dragun Jo Dunbar C. Dyas C. Edgar Deborah Edlmann Jane Edwarde Raihana Ehsanullah Christina Ender Juergen Ender Claire Enders Ashley Everington Susan Farmer L. Fermor-Smith Sharon Finch Dennis Fisher Charles Fletcher James Forrester Carrie Fox Theresa Fox David Furr Pamela Furr

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Harry Shearer Kristian Sibast Mark Sibley Franco Sidoli Virginia Spray Brenda Stride John Stromberg Niall Sullivan Janet Suzman Swedish Defend The Elephants Society C. Thimbleby Adam Tindall Anna Towers Susan Tritton Nigel Tuersley Dr Mark Tyrell Nicola Ure Emily Van Evera David Vanderbanck Richard Verdi Mair Vermote Helen Villalobos D. Vithlani Richard Waite Martin Waltom Watkin Jones Group James Weight Matthew Westerman Stanley White J. Wilkie Daniela Willson Sally Woodcock Fred Wooden Sara Woodhouse Andrew Woodward V. Woollcombe Brian Woolley

Support Space for Giants Space for Giants is a small, focussed and responsive conservation charity that is having a significant conservation impact on the ground. Our approach is highly collaborative and is informed by over 10 years of practical hands on applied research and conservation in Africa. We strongly believe we represent an ideal opportunity for donors looking for the biggest return / impact for their donation.

Adopt an Elephant!

Visit www.spaceforgiants.org/adopt to help us scale up our work to effectively protect at least 10% of Africa’s elephants, in priority landscapes, across the continent by 2020.

How to Donate in the UK

Visit www.spaceforgiants.org/donate to make a one-off or regular gift Or Please write out a cheque to “Space for Giants” and send to Space for Giants, Chase Lodge, 27 Clapham Common North Side, London, SW4 0RL (If you give through the Gift Aid scheme we receive an extra amount deducted from your taxes at no extra cost to you. UK tax payers only)

How to Donate in the USA

Visit www.crowdrise.com/spaceforgiants to make a donation through our Crowdrise page Or Please write out a cheque to “Tusk USA” and send to Tusk USA, 525 East 89th street, Garden Office, New York, NY 10128 (All donations to Tusk USA are tax deductible to the extent allowed by US law. Please attach a covering note confirming that you would like your donation to support Space for Giants.)

Main Office

Space for Giants | P.O. Box 174 | Nanyuki 10400 | Kenya Phone: +254 20 800 2975 | E-mail: info@spaceforgiants.org Space for Giants is a UK registered charity (Charity no 1139771) UK-based Trustees: Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Professor Phyllis Lee, Tom Brunner, Janice Hughes, Peter Bacchus & Michael Count African-based Trustees: Dr Boniface Kiteme, Dr Juliet King, Batian Craig, Josep Oriol, David Gachuche Photographs Copyright of: Space for Giants, David Gulden, Maurice Schutgens and Johnnie Kidd

ANNUAL REPORT 2013 - 2014

Our mission is to secure a future for the largest mammals on earth forever, to be enjoyed by humanity forever, by ensuring they have the space and security to live and move freely in the wild, forever.

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