Directory · East and Southern Africa
Animal rescue work across East and Southern Africa centres on wildlife: snare removal, anti-poaching support, and sanctuary care for animals that cannot be returned to the wild. WARN funds partner-led programmes in the region, and Born Free operates a GFAS-accredited big cat sanctuary in South Africa.
How this list was assembled
Currently drawn entirely from WARN's own funded country programmes in the region, which are marked as core partners. We fund those, so we are not a neutral party on any of them. Independent organisations working across Africa are listed on the cause pages rather than here, because their coverage is multi-region — see the wildlife trafficking and sanctuary facets. This facet grows as regional organisations are verified.
Our own interest: WARN funds the programmes marked “WARN-funded programme” below. We are not an impartial judge of those, and this page is not a ranking.
The animal welfare picture in East and Southern Africa is shaped by wildlife rather than companion animals, and by two pressures in particular.
The first is snaring. Wire snares set for bushmeat are indiscriminate — they catch lions, wild dogs, elephants and antelope alike, and an animal that escapes often does so with an injury that kills it slowly. Snare removal patrols are unglamorous and among the highest-value interventions available.
The second is human-wildlife conflict. Predators that take livestock get killed in retaliation, and the interventions that work are the ones addressing the livestock loss rather than the predator.
Kenya is an East African country where WARN's planned work focuses on snare-removal patrols and rapid-response veterinary darting in the Tsavo and Maasai Mara…
Rwanda is a small, densely populated East African country best known for mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, with reintroduced lions and rhinos in Akagera; its…
South Africa holds the world's largest populations of white and black rhinos, plus African elephants, lions, cheetahs, African wild dogs and pangolins; it is the…
Tanzania is an East African country whose Selous-Niassa corridor forms one of the largest contiguous protected wildlife landscapes in Africa; WARN's planned work…
Uganda is an East African country in the Albertine Rift where WARN's planned work funds partner-led mountain-gorilla veterinary response, snare removal, humane…
Listing is not endorsement. WARN has no relationship with the independent organisations above, funds none of them, does not inspect them and receives nothing for listing them. They are here because someone asking this question needs real names, and WARN is not the only answer to it.