The Ivory Room is a South African non-profit raising funds for the protection, rescue and recovery of Africa's wild animals. We exist to make it impossible to look away.
Donate NowIn partnership with Wildlife Emergency Fund
Our emblem is alive, whole and in motion. The ivory in our name belongs on the animal, and our work keeps it there.
Funding for anti-poaching units, ranger equipment, tracking technology and boots on the ground where wildlife is most at risk.
Emergency response and veterinary care for injured, orphaned and displaced wild animals, from first call to release.
Habitat rehabilitation and protected-space initiatives so recovered animals have somewhere wild to return to.
Community and school programmes that turn the next generation into wildlife's first line of defence.
The Ivory Room is a 100% Black female owned, Level 1 B-BBEE entity, in partnership with Wildlife Emergency Fund. Every campaign we run powers Wildlife Emergency Responses, putting real teams behind wildlife emergencies in the field. Corporate donations can be recognised as Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) spend, earning B-BBEE scorecard points alongside the impact.
Wildlife Emergency Fund has spent years stepping in wherever provincial authorities and reserves lack the helicopters, vets or equipment to respond alone, working across Mpumalanga, Zululand and the Greater Kruger National Park.
A specialist team able to reach a snared, injured or displaced animal within 24 hours of a call coming in, anywhere in the region.
Full elephant herd translocations, rhino dehorning and emergency relocations, alongside everyday snare removal and anti-poaching support.
Helicopter time, veterinary support and equipment supplied to under-resourced reserves at no cost, filling gaps provincial budgets cannot.
Active work to establish new protected areas, so the animals rescued today have somewhere safe to live long after the emergency ends.
Jean Nagiah · Founding Partner, Wildlife Emergency Fund
The Ivory Room's relationship with Wildlife Emergency Fund is a hands-on one. As a founding partner, Jean works directly alongside the WEF team on live interventions in the field, not from behind a desk.
The Ivory Room exists to help keep frontline work like this funded.
Wildlife Emergency Fund
Dereck Milburn works alongside Jean at Wildlife Emergency Fund, bringing years of hands-on conservation experience to the team, including elephant and rhino rescues, anti-poaching operations, habitat rehabilitation and community engagement work across South African reserves.
That includes collaring operations such as this one, carried out with WILDLANDS, the co-management agency of Somkhanda Community Game Reserve, fitting the tracking collars that reserves rely on to manage and protect their elephant and rhino populations.
We keep our structure lean and our reporting open. Donations are allocated to the field first, and we publish what we raise and where it goes.
Once-off or monthly. Every contribution moves the work forward, and every donor receives our annual impact report.
Sustained monthly support, the backbone of everything we fund.
Join MonthlySend proof of payment to jean@weresponses.com to receive your donor acknowledgement.
Corporate partnerships and legacy giving welcome
We publish an annual impact and financial report, name the projects we fund, and answer to our donors before anyone else. No gala budgets, no vanity spend: the field comes first.
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