To protect and sustain African wilderness and wildlands through integrated conservation and education programmes, the benefits of which support biodiversity and cultural, scientific, economic and spiritual values. The Vision arises from the following concerns:
- The African population is becoming increasingly urbanised and potentially alienated from the natural environment;
- An unacceptably small percentage of African land is allocated to the establishment and preservation of wild lands and wilderness areas;
- Widespread ignorance of the value of our natural heritage including the role and significance of wild animals in human life, is placing wilderness and wildlands under threat. Consequently there is an urgent need to promote these areas as important living laboratories for understanding the environment, the human-animal interface as well as places for human spiritual growth.
