Great Plains to support conservation efforts through print sale

The Art for Conservation catalogue includes images taken by Joubert and displayed at the company’s camps in Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, and now being sold to help raise money for Project Ranger.

Joubert has pledged to donate 50% of proceeds from the sale of Art for Conservation prints during November to Project Ranger, which was created by the Great Plains Foundation in March 2020 to fund the recruitment of wildlife rangers to improve conservation and prevent poaching.

She added: “We had thought that Project Ranger would be a ‘pandemic contained’ project for us. The problem is far greater than this cycle, as devastating as that is.

“Rangers are still on furlough, poaching is increasing significantly in the Southern African region. While our $1 million has been distributed and being used well to date, it is time for us to adjust our timelines and dig deeper to help rangers and frontline conservationists.”

The project has so far funded more than 200 rangers in seven countries who are now employed on the frontline of conservation and preventing poaching.

“We hope to share some of the iconic wildlife we have worked with, embodied in these images, to create a sense of excitement and awe inside the frame and beyond that,” said Joubert.

“Taking one of these home should be more than a memento, it is your personal key to that window back to Africa, in your mind and in your dreams, as you plan your next safari.”