Protecting the environment isn’t a choice — it’s a shared responsibility.

Thriving ecosystems rely on the connections and relationships between all of the living beings within them.

Disrupt enough of these connections, and the whole system can weaken. This is sadly what we are witnessing all over the world.

At Big Life, our goal is to protect the Greater Amboseli ecosystem, to ensure it’s innumerable interlocking parts can continue their intricate dance far into the future. Protecting the ecosystem’s 2+ million acres cannot be achieved through a single approach. Together with our partners, we operate a diverse range of programs: from antipoaching to education, conservancy creation to healthcare, and so much more.

In some ways, our programs mirror an ecosystem - many different people and parts working together for the benefit of the whole: Amboseli.

So while it may not seem like awarding a scholarship or offering free health checkups could directly result in a thriving herd of elephants, one must rethink how healthy ecosystem’s work. A healthy community IS a healthy environment. And a healthy environment is a thriving Amboseli for us all to enjoy, human and animal alike.

Learn more about our work protecting habitat. 

📽: Jeremy Goss