Promotes protection of SA's conservation areas by investing in adjacent communities, to create businesses and jobs rooted in the wildlife-tourism economy.
The Tourism Conservation Fund (TCF), which was formally launched in May 2018, is a non-profit company established by Peace Parks Foundation (www.peaceparks.org) and the Southern Africa Tourism Services Association (www.satsa.com).
Our mission is to protect biodiversity and enhance the conservation of South Africa’s wildlife areas through effective economic and social development programmes which contribute to sustainable poverty reduction, economic opportunity and broad-based economic growth in communities suffering from or at a high risk of wildlife crime.
The Fund is a public-private partnership and operates as both a funder and a development facilitator. It works with existing commercial players who have the experience, networks and commitment to create, replicate and scale commercial partnerships of all kinds with disadvantaged communities close to the wildlife-tourism value chain.
Through its investments, the Fund aims to overcome the legacy of exclusion that characterises South Africa’s wildlife–tourism economy. Its investments will directly facilitate, finance and enable the establishment of more inclusive local economies around the country’s parks and protected areas, in which the opportunities and benefits that derive from them are more widely shared. This is a pre-condition for their sustainability.
