Celebrating Conservation Success

The Tusk Conservation Awards, in partnership with Ninety One, honour the heroes of African conservation, and help tell their stories to the world.

For over a decade, The Tusk Conservation Awards have served as a springboard for Africa’s foremost conservationists. These guardians of biodiversity have since risen to the top of their fields, scaling their work and amplifying conservation impact across the continent.

Africa is home to close to 30% of the world’s biodiversity and a third of the planet’s fresh water; the continent will account for a quarter of the world’s population by 2050.

Africans are custodians of an incredible global resource, and the global community can only conserve this resource with leadership from Africans. Those that steward, manage, and understand the importance of investments in nature.

These defenders of biodiversity are who we celebrate with the Tusk Conservation Awards every year.

In 2022, the Awards were hosted against the historic backdrop of Hampton Court Palace. Hosted by the BBC’s Kate Silverton, our winners and finalists met with Tusk’s Royal Patron Prince William, as he announced the results and personally presented the winners with their awards, sculpted by Patrick Mavros.

Our thanks go to headline sponsors Ninety One, to our individual award sponsors Land Rover and the Nick Maughan Foundation, and to all of our corporate partners, without whom the awards would not be possible. These include ISPS Handa, Fortemus & Maia Films, DHL, Mantis Group, Shelton Fleming, Justerini & Brooks and EJF Philanthropies.

Our 2022 winners and finalists met with journalist Sarah Marshall to discuss their work and hopes for the future of conservation. Here are their stories...

Below Winners and Finalists of the 2022 Tusk Conservation Awards with the Prince of Wales

Credit: Chris Jackson