Footprints of Tomorrow reflects the Grumeti Fund’s commitment to safeguarding wildlife, restoring landscapes, and investing in people. Our team helps ensure that the Serengeti ecosystem and its wildlife are protected for generations to come.

A glimpse into the work of Grumeti Fund, where conservation, community, and wildlife protection come together to safeguard one of Africa’s most important ecosystems.

Grumeti Fund is a non-profit organization tasked with conservation, law enforcement, community outreach and research and monitoring activities within the Grumeti concession area.

Conservation Management oversees the planning, coordination, and implementation of conservation strategies across Grumeti. The team ensures that all departments work together effectively to protect and sustain the ecosystem long-term.

The Anti-Poaching department is responsible for safeguarding wildlife and their habitats across the Grumeti ecosystem. Through daily patrols, anti-poaching operations, and rapid response efforts, the team works on the frontlines to ensure the safety and security of wildlife.

Community Outreach focuses on building strong, positive relationships with surrounding communities. Through education, engagement, and support programs, the team helps ensure that conservation and community well-being grow together.

The Relationships team builds and maintains key partnerships with stakeholders, donors, and supporting organizations. Their work ensures strong collaboration, effective communication, and continued support for Grumeti Fund’s conservation mission.

This department collects and analyzes vital ecological data across the ecosystem. Using field surveys, camera traps, and tracking technology, they provide the scientific insights needed to guide effective conservation decisions.

RISE develops the next generation of conservation leaders through training, mentorship, and hands-on learning, empowering participants to help address conservation challenges in the Serengeti.

Protecting wildlife, empowering communities, and preserving wild spaces.

Strategically placed observation posts allow rangers to keep watch over vast areas, helping detect threats early and ensuring the protection of wildlife and the surrounding ecosystem.

Where thousands of girls have no access to quality education in the rural parts of Tanzania, the Grumeti Fund through your donations has turned the wheel to empowering girls and women in the 21 villages surrounding the concession.

The Wagora Bike Ride brings together riders, community, and conservation, in partnership with Singita, to celebrate and support those who protect the landscapes.

Our fixed wing aircraft helps our teams monitor wildlife, detect threats, and support conservation efforts across the vast protected landscape.

Pauline is one of many girls benefitting from our girls’ empowerment programs – through scholarship, mentorship and special empowerment events. She believes that educating girls changes communities. Pauline is passionate about equality and girl's empowerment, and we are so excited to see where she takes her life. Empowering girls, empowers communities.

Grumeti Fund works to maintain, build and strengthen close relationships with all relevant government, conservation and local community stakeholders that operate within the Serengeti ecosystem, thereby enabling us to effectively carry out our work.

In order to better understand ecological systems and to measure the effectiveness of our community, and conservation work, we invest significantly in research and monitoring programs with the aim of maintaining long-term records of changes in key variables.

The Grumeti Fund is enhancing the quality of education by providing scholarships to youth from local communities. We are teaching local students the importance of conservation from a young age which will change the future generation.

The 350,000 acre Grumeti concession forms a crucial part of the Serengeti ecosystem. In addition to rejuvenating and preserving the landscape, the Grumeti Fund works with government, local communities and other stakeholders on various conservation projects.

The Grumeti Fund employs a team of game scouts that come from the local communities bordering the concession. Our scouts undergo continuous training to maintain high standards of efficiency and safety.

The Grumeti Fund’s applied research facility and program, RISE (Research and Innovation for the Serengeti Ecosystem) aim’s to empower researchers and scientists to find solutions for complex issues facing the Serengeti ecosystem.

As one of 750 eastern black rhino left, his genetics and ability to contribute to the eastern black rhino population in Tanzania is critical. Eric’s translocation from San Diego to Tanzania is part of a multi-phase black rhino expansion program.

In September 2019 the Grumeti Fund, in partnership with the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, translocated a breeding nucleus of eastern black rhino from South Africa to Tanzania in an effort to contribute to the saving of this critically endangered species.

The Grumeti Fund and the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism translocated a breeding nucleus of eastern black rhino from South Africa to Tanzania in an effort to contribute to the saving of this critically endangered species.

In one weekend the Grumeti Fund reached over 1,500 girls in empowerment events that focused on gender equality, confidence, education and health-related topics.

In October 2018 the Grumeti Fund held the first ever all-women run across the Serengeti in support of women and girls in Tanzania. This event aims to raise funding for the entire Grumeti Fund Empowerment Program.