About the Foundation

The Zambezi Impact Foundation puts proven technology in the hands of the people protecting African wildlife.

What we do

Conservation in southern Africa is done by small teams over enormous areas. We fund the layer that lets them watch it: sensors that hear a gunshot, cameras that recognize a vehicle, trackers that show a herd moving toward a village, and the long-range networks that carry all of it to a control room where no phone signal reaches.

How it works

1. Partners tell us what they cannot see. A corridor, a fence line, a water point, a road into the reserve.
2. We fund the technology that shows it. Off-the-shelf units where they exist, from suppliers we know, at the prices published on our Give page.
3. Partners operate it. The equipment belongs to the work on the ground.
4. We publish what happened. Units, purpose, partner, on the Impact page, every year.

Partners

Wild Is Life in Zimbabwe: elephant rescue, rehabilitation and rewilding, and the protection of the landscapes the animals return to. The Foundation has raised about $20,000 in support of their work and introduced them to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which supplied ten acoustic recording units.

The founder

Bastiaan den Braber founded the Foundation in 2021 after more than 20 years travelling the African continent. In 2009 he received his Field Guide Association of South Africa (FGASA) Level 1 certification, and continued deepening his knowledge and expertise of African wildlife conservation ever since. After many years working in strategy consulting and technology across five continents, he pivoted his career towards applying his skills, knowledge, experience and network to advancing African wildlife conservation. He photographs the wildlife he encounters in the field on this site and shares it on Instagram.