On the Front line
We hope that you enjoyed Monty and Friends African Adventure. Obviously it is a fictional story but the issues that we included are very real. As an author it's all about sharing the story as widely as possible, but we realise that the themes in the book are important to people and so we have added this section where you can get some more information.
The links below will take you to some amazing organisations who are working everyday to protect our wild creatures for future generations. We have carefully selected the following groups but this list is by no means exhaustive and if you think we should add others please let us know at montybooks@montydogge.com. Indeed if you are an organisation working in this area we'd love to hear from you and we are more than happy to add any events or news you'd like to share.
Please take a few minutes to see what these wonderful people are doing for species who are so under threat. You can donate, get more information or even adopt an Elephant.
The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary
An ever-growing movement of grass roots level, community focused conservation is gaining huge momentum in Northern Kenya, and a new wave of wildlife protection is emerging. Once heavily poached and severely degraded by instability, the northern rangeland is now restoring itself through transparent, self-governed community conservancies that promote the preservation of natural resources in order to create stability, employment and revenue.
The Reteti Elephant Sanctuary is situated in the remote Mathews Range, among Kenya’s second largest elephant population. It takes in orphaned and abandoned elephant calves with an aim to release them back into the wild herds adjoining the Sanctuary. This is the result of a widely recognised and expanding grassroots movement of community-driven conservation across northern Kenya; a movement that is growing new economies, transforming lives and conserving natural resources.
https://www.retetielephants.org/
Born Free
We work tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether living in captivity or in the wild, are treated with compassion and respect and are able to live their lives according to their needs.
As a leading wildlife charity, we oppose the exploitation of wild animals in captivity and campaign to keep them where they belong - in the wild.
We promote Compassionate Conservation to enhance the survival of threatened species in the wild and protect natural habitats while respecting the needs and safeguarding the welfare of individual animals.
We seek to have a positive impact on animals in the wild and protect their ecosystems in perpetuity, for their own intrinsic value and for the critical roles they play within the natural world.
https://www.bornfree.org.uk/
African Wildlife Foundation
More elephants and rhinos are dying from poaching than from natural causes or conflict with humans. Their body parts are traded illegally as trophies, traditional medicine, or trinkets on a lucrative black market — but these iconic pachyderms are not the only wildlife species to be slaughtered for human gain. Big cats like the lion and cheetah are killed for their bones; the African wild dog and other large carnivores die at the hands of villagers protecting their livestock; great apes, like chimps, in Central and West Africa, are hunted as bushmeat and their babies traded as pets; pangolins are captured for their scales and meat.
Across the continent’s diverse wild lands, management authorities need data-driven solutions to enhance anti-poaching capacity to allow remaining priority populations to recover from previous, and current, crises. Meanwhile, community-level interventions must explore different economic opportunities that secure rather than destroy biodiversity as pressure on natural resources grows with increasing development, infrastructure, and urbanization.
Wildlife habitats must be maintained to reverse population decline.
The rapid decline of Africa's keystone species over the last few decades is devastating not only to national economies that depend on wildlife tourism but also to ecosystems that provide resources to other species and vital services to growing human populations. As wildlife habitats become increasingly fragmented, securing Africa's wild lands gives them a fighting chance to survive.
https://www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/elephant
Save the Elephants
We conduct vital research on elephant behaviour and ecology and pioneered GPS radio tracking in Africa to provide fresh insight into the life of elephants. After 18 years of intensive monitoring the elephants of Samburu are one of the world’s best-studied populations. We also assist in implementing a UN-level programme to monitor the illegal killing of elephants. Our solid scientific data has helped shift international policy towards a better future for the species.
We work with wildlife departments, protected area managers and communities to assist their efforts to defend elephants against ivory poachers and traffickers. We develop and deploy cutting edge tracking systems to monitor and protect elephants. Through our Elephant Crisis Fund we have supported more than 49 partners in the implementation of over 145 different projects in 29 different countries (September 2018) aimed at stopping the killing, stopping the trafficking and ending the demand for ivory.
https://www.savetheelephants.org/