Donate to Big Life Foundation

Big Life Foundation USA is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization. Please consult with your professional tax advisor pertaining to the tax deductibility of your donations.
EIN : 27-3455389

For More Information or questions about donating, please contact donations@biglifeafrica.org

For More Information or questions about the projects, please contact projects@biglifeafrica.org

You can also donate by sending check to the following address:

Big Life Foundation USA
3327 Blue Ash Lane
Indianapolis, IN 46239

Big Life Foundation USA - Incoming Wire Details

UBS Financial Services
UBS ABA/Routing #: 026 007 993
Swift Code: UBSW US 33
1st Account #: 101-WA-258641-000
1st Account Name & Address:
UBS AG
677 Washington Boulevard
Stamford, CT 06901
Final Account #: (letter "I"): WI 35222
Account Name: Big Life Foundation USA

Our current annual expense to achieve what we need to achieve across the ecosystem - 160 rangers in eighteen camps, with full mobile and aerial support - is currently running at around $1.5m.+ a year. We have standing donations of $600,000 a year, so we still need to raise an additional $900,000+ a year minimum just to maintain.

Your donations could go towards, amongst other needs :

$150 will pay for an undercover video camera (12 required) for videoing of operations and arrests for evidence.

$170 will pay for the salary and upkeep of one ranger for one month.

$250 will keep the Super Cub plane in Kenya in the air for one hour to monitor wildlife and look for poaching activity

$350 will equip and replace equipment for a ranger for one year (eg ruck-sack, sleeping bag, GPS, uniforms).

$500 will purchase a hand-held Radio for rangers to communicate with each other and the base while on patrol.

$500 will cover fuel costs on one vehicle for one month for patrols and positioning rangers.

$1600 will cover 35 hours a month of anti-poaching aerial support and monitoring in Tanzania with the Microlight plane Big Life has co-purchased.

$2000 will cover the costs of maintaining an informer network for one month in both countries.

$2000 will purchase a mobile film projection unit for game scouts to show wildlife educational films to the community, to teach the value of protecting the wildlife for the economic benefit of the community.

$3000 will pay for a set of Night Vision Surveillance equipment. Due to intense anti-poaching patrols during the day, poachers have turned to poaching at night. Providing night vision equipment and training will equip and the anti-poaching teams to approach poachers stealthily in the night to make arrests.

$4000 will pay for one lightweight mobile camping unit that will enable the anti-poaching teams to camp out, providing the teams with a presence in areas further from established ranger posts.

$5000 will build kennels and training areas for one of the two sets of tracker dogs arriving later in the year. Dogs that can track a poacher for miles are one of the most effective poaching deterrents to an operation.

$6000 will pay for the annual salary for a full-time Prosecutions Adviser to follow up on all the cases that go to trial - a critically important job to maximise the chances of the poachers being convicted.

$17,000 will pay for the annual upkeep and operations of both sets of tracker dogs in Kenya and Tanzania: maintenance, food, veterinary care, and accompanying dog handlers’ salaries. Dogs that can track a poacher for miles are one of the most effective poaching deterrents to an operation

$17,000 will cover the costs of building and opening a new patrol post for 8 rangers.

$20,000 will pay for one year’s salary and training of a squad of 8 anti-poaching scouts, each with equipment for patrols including handheld radios, uniforms, binoculars, GPS , and cameras.

$45,000 will cover the cost of a new anti-poaching vehicle that can cover and provide wildlife security for over 150,000 acres of wilderness.

$150,000 will pay for the construction of a 25km fence near the Kenya / Tanzania border - a major solution to the daily crop raiding by elephants of the increasing farmland. This would both protect the elephants and stop the spread of the farmland into precious wildlife territory.