African Bush Camps Foundation Releases 2025 Impact Report
on Community-Led Conservation
What is African Bush Camps announcing?
African Bush Camps Foundation has released its 2025 Impact Report, highlighting more than $1,000,000 invested in conservation and community initiatives across Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The report outlines how African Bush Camps and its Foundation are advancing a community-led conservation model across Southern Africa, linking wildlife protection with education, healthcare, livelihoods, and local leadership.
What is the purpose of the 2025 Impact Report?
The report provides a transparent overview of African Bush Camps Foundation’s measurable impact in 2025.
It focuses on how locally rooted conservation can help communities become long-term custodians of the ecosystems around them. Its guiding framework, the Theory of Change, connects conservation outcomes with community wellbeing, education, economic resilience, and healthcare access.
Where does African Bush Camps Foundation work?
African Bush Camps Foundation supports communities and conservation landscapes across:
Botswana
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Its work is connected to communities surrounding African Bush Camps Experiences and key wildlife areas in Southern Africa.
What were the main impact areas in 2025?
The 2025 Impact Report focuses on three main pillars:
Education
Community development
Conservation
These pillars are designed to strengthen local capacity, protect biodiversity, reduce human-wildlife conflict, and ensure tourism creates shared value for surrounding communities.
What education impact did African Bush Camps Foundation achieve in 2025?
In 2025, African Bush Camps Foundation invested in stronger school environments across Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe by improving infrastructure, resourcing classrooms, supporting educators, and expanding student development.
In Botswana, the Junior Ranger Program helped nearly 50 young learners connect with the land around them. The program contributed to an 89% attendance rate and a 78% decrease in school dropouts.
How did the Foundation support community wellbeing?
African Bush Camps Foundation supported locally led initiatives focused on food security, healthcare, sustainable livelihoods, and community resilience.
Key examples include:
Establishing the Ditshiping Community Garden in partnership with SAVE Wildlife Conservation Botswana
Strengthening the Maunga Health Center in Zambia
Supporting healthcare access that has assisted 1,134 patients
Helping deliver 29 babies with a 0% mortality rate at the clinic
What conservation initiatives were highlighted?
The report highlights several conservation initiatives, including:
Safe washing points along the Zambezi River to reduce human-wildlife conflict
Anti-snaring operations in the Khwai and Mababe area
Support for biodiversity corridors
Predator-proof bomas in Mola, Zimbabwe
Plastic waste recovery through the Ele-Collection initiative
In Mola, 42 predator-proof bomas helped reduce livestock predation by 53%, supporting both household resilience and wildlife coexistence.
What is the Ele-Collection initiative?
The Ele-Collection is an initiative supported by African Bush Camps Foundation that restores elephant habitats by turning plastic waste into building materials.
Through the 2025 World Elephant Day campaign, $300 from every booking between August and December 2025 supported the initiative’s expansion.
How does the Foundation support women in tourism?
The Women in Tourism Program, launched in 2023, provides accredited hospitality training, paid internships, and mentorship for young women in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Graduates are now working across African Bush Camps Experiences in roles such as guest services and lodge operations, helping create pathways into safari tourism.
What are African Bush Camps Foundation’s goals for 2026 and beyond?
In 2026, African Bush Camps Foundation will focus on strengthening governance, monitoring and evaluation, and financial stewardship to ensure every investment delivers measurable, long-term impact.
As African Bush Camps marks 20 years in 2026, the Foundation’s next chapter will focus on deeper partnerships, stronger conservation funding, and long-term collaboration across communities, donors, staff, and conservation partners.
About African Bush Camps:
Founded in 2006 by local Zimbabwean guide Beks Ndlovu, African Bush Camps connects travelers to Southern Africa through authentic, expert-led safari experiences. The company operates luxury safari lodges across Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, set within UNESCO World Heritage Sites and iconic landscapes including the Okavango Delta, Victoria Falls, and Hwange National Park. Through The Collective, a curated network of partner properties across Southern Africa — including Mozambique and South Africa — guests can explore more of the region in one seamless journey. An independent, owner-operated safari company, African Bush Camps is guided by a mission to share and conserve Africa. This commitment is realized through the African Bush Camps Foundation, which supports conservation, community and sustainability.
About African Bush Camps Foundation:
African Bush Camps Foundation (ABCF) is a non-profit working alongside African Bush Camps to create meaningful, long-term impact across Southern Africa. The Foundation ensures that tourism success is directly reinvested into the communities and landscapes that make it possible, supporting conservation, education, and community empowerment.
