African Cat Project has been partnered with The Kariega Foundation, located on the beautiful Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, since 2019.

We facilitate, provide funds for, and support the rescue, rehabilitation, reintroduction, monitoring and research of lion, leopard and cheetah populations in collaboration with The Kariega Foundation.

Read more about each specific project below.

Leopard Conservation Project

The leopard is Africa’s most abundant, but elusive, big cat, and are known about the least. Exact numbers are therefore not known, and are estimated at 50,000 worldwide. Like the lion and cheetah, they are listed Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List with numbers decreasing.

A solitary hunter with a sleek coat covered in rosettes, the leopard has been hunted to extinction and near extinction in some of their former historic ranges. Leopards also face the same threats as their other big cat companions such as habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, the illegal wildlife trade, poaching and unsustainable trophy hunting.

We work with our valued partners, The Kariega Foundation in South Africa, on human-leopard conflict mitigation programs, rescue, rehabilitation and release projects, reintroduction initiatives, and research and monitoring of wild leopard populations. You can directly support these projects via the buttons below: