OUR AIMS & OBJECTIVES
The Safina Lion Conservation Fund is a Registered Charitable Foundation (CIO) Registered Charity Number 1172709 formed in April 2017 to focus on the following objectives:
'1) To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation and protection of lions by:
A) Supporting conservation projects in such ways that are charitable.
B) Conserving and protecting the natural habitat of lions.
C) Supporting and publishing research into the conservation and husbandry of lions
2) To advance the education of the public in lion and wildlife conservation by such means as the trustees decide including through the support and publishing of research.'
As a Registered Charity it is our duty to ensure that all of the work that we undertake matches these objectives. We work to carry out these objectives through the support of both in-situ and ex-situ conservation work.
Strategic Plan 2024 - 2027
Our Conservation & Education Strategy
After six years since our first strategy had been written, trustees have written a completely new strategy that assesses the state of lions in the wild, our previous efforts and to plan our conservation impact for the next three years. This new strategy also sees our three previous focus areas changing into two conservation goals and two education goals. ​
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This has been launched on World Lion Day 2024 (10th August) exactly three years after our previous conservation strategy review. Our new goals are:​
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1. To support local communities at homestead level to promote coexistence with the local lion population.
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2. To assist efforts to monitor and protect lions at a wider population level to support a healthy lion population.
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3. To support access to conservation education projects for local communities, particularly for children, to promote the importance of coexistence with wildlife and the importance of lions within their ecosystem.
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4. To work with zoological institutions and to assist them with educational efforts for their visitors, and to support them in increasing their in-situ conservation impact.
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​To read our new strategy review fully click on the PDF viewer to the right and zoom in closer. To read our previous conservation strategy and our 2021 review please click on the icons to the right to learn more about our previous work and focus.​
Conservation Strategy
2018
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Conservation Strategy Review 2021
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