Vision & Approach

Our Vision

ACCF believes lasting conservation happens when wildlife, ecosystems, and communities thrive together.

We support integrated conservation models that combine science-based wildlife management, strong local leadership, and meaningful economic opportunity for communities living alongside protected landscapes.

By partnering with leading African conservation organisations, ACCF helps secure the long-term protection of some of the continent’s most important ecosystems while ensuring conservation delivers lasting benefits for people and nature.

What Makes ACCF Different?

Maximising Impact: 100% of every donation goes directly supports our work across Africa
Portfolio Model: Donors gain access to multiple leading conservation organisations through a single trusted philanthropic platform.
Local Leadership: We support African organisations with deep local expertise, strong governance, and long-term commitments to their landscapes.
Long-Term Stewardship: Our partners manage ecosystems over decades, ensuring conservation solutions are sustainable and enduring.
Transparent Impact: Rigorous monitoring and reporting provide clear insight into the conservation and community outcomes donor support helps achieve.

This approach enables donors to support multiple leading conservation landscapes through a single trusted foundation.

Our Approach

Africa’s most extraordinary landscapes endure when wildlife, ecosystems, and people prosper side by side. ACCF’s approach is to work with leading African conservation organisations to protect biodiversity, strengthen communities, and secure the future of some of the continent’s most important ecosystems.

Community

Thriving communities are essential to lasting conservation. ACCF supports programmes that expand opportunity, strengthen livelihoods, improve health and education, and build local leadership. By investing in people living alongside wildlife, we help create resilient communities that benefit from healthy ecosystems and play an active role in protecting the landscapes they call home.

Through its partners ACCF directly supports initiatives which strengthen:

Environmental education and youth development
Livelihoods and economic resilience
Health and wellbeing
Leadership development and capacity building
Climate resilience

These investments reduce pressure on ecosystems while empowering communities to become long-term stewards of the landscapes they live within.

Biodiversity and collaborative site management.

Anti-Poaching Rangers with Canine Support

Conservation

Effective conservation requires expertise, commitment, and long-term stewardship of protected landscapes. Through our trusted partners, ACCF supports science-led conservation programmes that protect wildlife, restore habitats, and strengthen ranger teams. These efforts help safeguard biodiversity while ensuring ecosystems remain resilient, connected, and capable of sustaining both wildlife and human communities.

Through our partners, ACCF supports initiatives including:

Biodiversity and species recovery
Anti-poaching and ranger support
Habitat restoration and landscape protection
Collaborative site management

These efforts help secure the future of iconic species and restore the ecological processes that sustain Africa’s ecosystems.

Cross-Cutting Themes

Across every landscape we support, three drivers strengthen long-term conservation success.

Science & Innovation

Monitoring, research, and advanced conservation technology guide adaptive management and evidence-based decision-making.

Sustainable Conservation Economies

Nature-based tourism and innovative financing models help landscapes remain economically viable over time.

Women & Girls Empowerment

Education, leadership opportunities, and economic participation strengthen community resilience and long-term conservation outcomes.

Conservation Lasts When:

Communities are resilient
Wildlife is protected
Nature has real, long-term value

ACCF exists to help ensure all three can succeed together.