Donate
Why Donate
The Foundation has a wealth of experience in working effectively in Namibia, and our results speak for themselves. The administrative and logistical support from Ultimate Safaris means that the Conservation Travel Foundation is able to invest all donations and funds raised into projects.
How To Donate
If you would like to support the work of the Foundation, please do make a contribution. No matter how much or how little, you can be sure you will be part of making a difference to the lives of rural people, and to the conservation of the wildlife on which they depend.
There are a number of ways in which you can contribute :
Online
The platform provided on this website allows you to make an online contribution, using the secure credit card or the electronic fund transfer facility, directly to the Conservation Travel Foundation. If you choose this option, please fill in and submit the online Donation Form once your donation transaction is complete so that we know where the donation has come from
Tax Deductible 501c3 Donation
The Conservation Travel Foundation has partnered with two United States registered 501c3’s that will allow guests to make a tax deductible donation. These partners are Wildlife Protection Solutions and The Wonderment and both will issue tax certificates but ensure that 100% of funds donated reach the Conservation Travel Foundation. Please follow these links to make use of this facility:
Ultimate Safaris Guests
You can complete and submit the donation form which is included in your safari pack, and return that at the end of your safari. You can make your donation in cash, by signing a credit / debit card authority, or by using the secure credit card or the electronic fund transfer facility on this website.
Other
Alternatively, you can arrange with your bank to make a direct bank transfer to the Foundation.
If you chose this option, please complete and submit the online Donation Form once your donation transaction is complete so that we know where the donation has come from.
Conservation Travel Foundation
Bank Details
Bank: Nedbank Namibia
Branch Code: 461038
Account Name : Conservation Travel Foundation
Account Number: 11000253083
Swift Code: NEDSNANX
Please download our donation form for bank details and other donation options below.
Donors
Honorary Trustee (US$10,000 and above)
Adventure Travel Conservation Foundation
Dianne & Austin Marxe
Fielding & Gally Gallivan
Kim De Morgan
Lauder Family
Lion Recovery Fund
Orlando Haraseb
The Explorations Company
Thika Foundation
Thika Travel
Ultimate Safaris
Wilderness Travel
Diamond Contributor (US$2,500-US$9,999)
Allan & Louise Bowker
Amy Myers
Bob & Peggy Van Andel
Bob Anderson & Veronica Reyna
Carol Rosenblum & Karen Richards
Charlotte & Jo Bailey
Charlotte Farber
Cees & Marlies Gerritson
Country Walkers
Explore, Inc
Georgine Cassella
Grootberg Lodge
Hugh & Wendy Kendrick
Jane Gilbert & Dan Elliot
John & Virginia Wieneke
Kent & Joan Sather
Kim Miller
Linda Batlin
Liza Carter
Mary Lou & Bill Kilgore
Michelle Manos
Nick and Valda Embiricos
Robert,Ely & Maya Klem
Sally Seaver
Unni & Peter Moser
Uwe & Sibylle Schreier
World Journeys
Gold Contributor (US$1,000-US$2,499)
Banovich Art
Beth Brownell
Betty Bah
Carolyn & Kelly Oleksyn
Christine Linguanti & Mary Kay Rudolph
Colleen Cassidy
Dave & Maggie Adams
Elyse Eng
Erika Fluyt
Fred & Jane Cantor
Hal Fassenden
Hugh & Glynda Ratliff
Jack & Irene Ball
Lauri & Jeffrey Everson
Mark & Karen Putterman
Mark, Vivian & Leo Morris
Marideth Sandler
Marney Stratton
Mike & Wendy Maloon
Mountain Travel Sobek
Nicole & Jonathan Franke
Peter Dubensky
Robinson Group
Steve & Lynn Humbert
Tom & Annabel Kozel
Waters Group
Silver Contributor (US$500-US$999)
Andreas Burckhardt
Dayne & Linda D’Aguilar
Gerry & Avary Doubleday
Helen Kolawole
Mary Wilson
Peter & Uni Moser
Bronze Contributor (US$250-US$499)
Barbara & Fred Reid
David McCoach & Rene Calloway
Explore Africa
George & Margie Block
Graeme & Anita Ferrero
Hans Ruetsch
Iris Bergmann
Janet Lineback
Jennifer Kinberger
Kathy Hornsbury
Marcel, Fransiska & Fabio Mueller
Marjorie Espenschade
Martin Webb-Bowen
Nandi & Vaihnavi Atul
Nora Stichel
Personalized Odysseys
Phil Collyer
Ritzenhoff Family
Rowan Mickleberg
Stephane Attal
Steven Jacobson
Stier Vente Associates
Susan Custard
Theobald Barber
Tristan Cowley
CTF Contributor (US$249 and below)
B Sinclair
Bev Winstone
Carly Paxman & Michael Tysome
Caroline Glover
Chester & Renn Finn
Chris & Kathy Lodge
David & Judy Osgood
David Einstein
Desiree Hoynck
Dori & Jeff Dryfoos
Doris Cowley
Dr Rosemary Jambert-Gray
Edith & Victor Au-Yeung
Edith Briskin
Encounter the Wild
Erika Phillips
Gabriela & Peter Huber
Gillian Wragg
Gregory & Christina Seiler
Helle Sorensen
Henry Waskowski
Ingrid Laursen
Intouch
James & Cathleen Enns
Jan Mohrdieck
Jane Knapp
Jason Nott
Jill Earnshaw
John Richards
John & Susan Brennan
Jonathan L Rigg
Kathrin Blattler
Lynda Leng
Mark & Diana King
Marlio Mosseri
Meryl Edwards
Mike & Agnes Segal
Nathan Caldwell
Penny Shepard
Reto Wey
Richard Rankin
S Westwood
Sara Brown
Sarah Berg
Shanta Louer
Sue Dobson
Thomas Wiluse
NB* If your name does not appear here and you have made contribution, please do not be offended and accept our apologies, and please contact us so we can rectify the mistake.
Impact
Namibia boasts the greatest wildlife recovery story ever told in Africa and all guests travelling with Ultimate Safaris are already making a positive impact as they embark on their life enriching journey, just by visiting Namibia.
Damaraland Leopards
Research
The Damaraland Leopard Project was launched in early 2020 and it began as a co-ordinated camera trap study of leopard activity in the area. As a result of the work done by the Conservation Travel Foundation, and the support provided by our partners at Wildlife Protection Solutions, it has now become a full-scale research project.
YOUNG DEFENDERS
YOUNG DEFENDERS
YOUNG DEFENDERS program embraces the ever-growing desire of families to allow their children a true wilderness experience, while at the same time allowing them to learn about conservation and to be a part of those efforts.
//Huab Food Security
//Huab Conservancy
As part of our continued impact investment into the //Huab Conservancy, we have created 1 hectare of shaded and watered agricultural land, a large chicken coop, storage facilities, and a cool room.
Scholarship Program
Social Responsibility Investments
Ultimate Safaris and the Conservation Travel Foundation have been working to support the Grootberg Primary School for over a decade.
Predator Proof Kraals
Human Wildlife Conflict
Namibia has faced extremely arid conditions in the North West for several years, and this drought situation has inevitably increased competition for resources and added to the pressure of human lion conflict in the area.
Radio Communication
Doro !Nawas Conservancy
The Conservation Travel Foundation has erected two VHF radio transmitters in the heart of Damaraland, one in each of the //Huab and Doro !Nawas Conservancies.
Rhino Ranger Accommodation
//Huab Conservancy
Rhino Rangers in Namibia fulfil a crucial function in terms of monitoring rhino and curbing poaching, but they endure extreme conditions whilst fulfilling their roles.
Pack for Conservation
Funding And Support Partners
The Conservation Travel Foundation works closely with Save the Rhino Trust to conserve Namibia’s desert-adapted black rhino. A major threat to rhino is poaching, and the Rhino Ranger programme was designed specifically to increase patrols and monitoring of Namibia’s rhino.
Grootberg Primary School
Social Responsibility Investments
Grootberg Primary School is a small, rural school in the Erwee Village, located in the Khoadi Hoas Conservancy. Th
Nicky Bee Farm
Social Responsibility Investments
Nicklaas Eksteen, is well-known in Windhoek as the “bee charmer”. He learnt the skills from his grandfather, and his dream was to have his own apiary and to sell honey with his own brand name.
Lionscape Coalition
Funding And Support Partners
In March, 2019, the Lion Recovery Fund formed a new initiative - the Lionscape Coalition. This allows Africa’s top tourism operators to take a lead in supporting on-the-ground conservation work and to encourage their visitors to support efforts to secure the future of wild lions.
//Huab Under Canvas
//Huab Conservancy
Ultimate Safaris was approached in 2016 to consider investing in the //Huab Conservancy which, on account of its remote location, had been overlooked for tourism development.
Rhino Awareness Campaign
Save the Rhino Trust
The Conservation Travel Foundation is a key sponsor in the annual Kunene Rhino Awareness Campaign, which emphasizes the importance of rhino to rural communities.
AfriCat Foundation
AfriCat
The Conservation Travel Foundation has long supported the AfriCat Foundation (www.africat.org), with funds generated through the Conservation Travel Safaris run by Ultimate Safaris.
Rhino Rangers
//Huab Conservancy
The Conservation Travel Foundation provides financial and operational support for five //Huab Rhino Rangers who patrol the area, and protect and monitor the rhino population.
Wildlife Water
//Huab Conservancy
The wildlife populations in the //Huab Conservancy, including rhino, live in a hyper-arid environment, where natural spring surface water is extremely limited and rivers are erratic and ephemeral.
Wildlife Credits
Funding And Support Partners
In an effort to place a pragmatic value on wildlife, both ecological and economic, the Wildlife Credits Initiative was formed by a number of local and international NGOs, with support from the Conservation Travel Foundation.
Granietkop Campsite
Doro !Nawas Conservancy
Tourism is a primary economic enterprise option for the Conservancies to exploit, and while leases for the establishment of small, high-end lodges and camps are a key element within that option, so is the provision of facilities for self-drive and lower paying tourists - such as rustic campsites.
Rhino Rangers
Doro !Nawas Conservancy
The Doro !Nawas Conservancy is home to a number of Namibia’s desert-adapted black rhino. Since 2020, the Conservation Travel Foundation has supported Doro !Nawas Rhino Rangers.
Camp Onduli
Doro !Nawas Conservancy
In 2018 Ultimate Safaris entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with the Doro !Nawas Conservancy to develop a 12 bed camp within the Conservancy, under a similar agreement to that with the //Huab Conservancy.
Reclaiming nature
Namib Tsaris Conservancy
Ultimate Safaris operates two safari ventures on the private Namib Tsaris Conservancy, namely The Nest @ Sossus and Camp Sossus. The conservation levies paid to the Conservancy help repay the costs of the rehabilitation of the land after years of inappropriate stock farming.
Little Bugs
Social Responsibility Investments
Little Bugs (www.litle-bugs.org) is a free Early Childhood Development Centre and lower primary school, set up by the Namib Sky Foundation, located near Sossusvlei and the Namib Tsaris Conservancy in south-central Namibia.
Bright Star
Social Responsibility Investments
Bright Star is an informal orphanage in one of the lower income township suburbs of Windhoek, driven by some extraordinary women.
Rhino Ranger Programme
Save the Rhino Trust
Save the Rhino Trust Namibia has worked tirelessly over many years to conserve and protect the desert-adapted black rhino of the Kunene and Erongo regions.
Rapid Response Fund
Ministry Of Environment And Tourism
The Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) have run a successful black rhino translocation and re-stocking scheme with private farmers and communal conservancies for a number of years.
Rhino Anti-Poaching Camp
Save the Rhino Trust
The Conservation Travel Foundation provided funds for SRT to construct a Rhino Anti-Poaching Unit Camp in the area of prime rhino habitat, to help counter the threat of rhino poaching in the Kunene Region.
Ongoing ‘unassigned’ support
Save the Rhino Trust
The Conservation Travel Foundation also supports SRT with regular contributions that are not assigned to any particular project, but which allow SRT to allocate the funds to meet unspecified operational requirements that arise, or are not covered by other ring-fenced funds.
Desert Lion Project
Desert Lion Project
The Conservation Travel Foundation has provided funding to help cover operational costs in the development of the Lion G
Giraffe Conservation Foundation
Giraffe Conservation
The southern African species of giraffe are not yet as threatened as the eastern and northern species which are highly endangered.
Rare and Endangered Species Trust (REST)
REST
EST is a Namibian Non-Profit Organisation that focuses its conservation efforts on six critically endangered species - namely, the African wild dog, the pangolin, the dwarf python, the spotted rubber frog, and the Cape Griffon vulture.
Justine's Laundry Service
Social Responsibility Investments
When Justine Gaingos, a longtime staff member of Ultimate Safaris, retired, The Conservation Travel Foundation donated her the machinery and house modifications to establish a laundry service in the suburb of Katutura.
