See how your support is helping create a lasting legacy for future generations in Africa’s grasslands and savannas. Read this letter from program director David Banks thanking you for your support of this critical landscape and discover the difference that your support is making.

In 1992, Kenyan landowner Ian Craig witnessed the massacre of an entire family of elephants by foreign poachers just north of his property. That vision turned this former big-game hunter into a global conservation leader.

Go deeper into The Nature Conservancy's work in Africa and learn about this amazing continent in the article “Into Africa” from the Spring 2007 issue of Nature Conservancy magazine. Also, read profiles and interviews with our partners Jane Goodall and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai.

With your support of the Adopt an Acre program in East Africa, you are helping preserve landscapes that are sufficiently large and intact to sustain large mammal migrations and rare species. Saving these last great migratory routes will mean protecting millions of animals.