Welcome to Africat UK

What we are about

AfriCat UK is a registered charity based here in the United Kingdom, its main aim is to provide funding for The AfriCat Foundation and AfriLeo Charity based in the African country of Namibia.

The provision of this funding enables The AfriCat Foundation to continue the long-term conservation of the countries large carnivores.  It also assists Afrileo in its quest to help protect and research the lions of Namibia.

AfriCat UK was originally started by Joanna and Rob Oliver who after visiting AfriCat Namibia in 1995, were so impressed with the work the foundation was doing, they decided to do something to help.

With a lot of strength and determination, along with the majority of their spare time they did do something. They enlisted the help of a few volunteers who, over the years have raised awareness and contributed in helping save the large carnivores of this world.
Sadly, due to work commitments the founders have stood down from taking any further active part, but have left a legacy for a small pocket of volunteers to continue emulating the great work they started.

In the year 2006, documentation and proposals were submitted to the charities commission for AfriCat UK Ltd’s application for charity status.

In the year 2007, when Charity status was granted for AfriCat UK Ltd, very little seemed to happen as we were in long discussions with AfriCat Namibia regarding the way forward with their long-term objectives, and how we could present their proposals and wish lists to possible donors.

AfriCat UK Ltd is a charity run totally by volunteers, it is our intention to start small and grow steadily over the coming years.

The main objectives of AfriCat UK are.

• To create awareness of the continuing struggle between man and large carnivores.
• To spread the word on the achievements of our teams working with large carnivores in Namibia.
• Provide funding to enable them to continue their work with the following:

The rescue, release and relocation of captured carnivores.
AfriCat offers farmers and land owners the option to have problem cats removed from their land, as an alternative to them destroying the captured animal.

The research programme.
This programme involves a wide range of information collected from lions, leopards, cheetahs, and distributed to world leading scientists, and conservation authorities.

The education programme.
Working with the youth of today, who become the farmers of tomorrow, is vital to the long-term conservation with large carnivores.

Welfare programme.
Large carnivores that are unsuitable for immediate release back into the wild, or require permanent captivity. These include injured, confiscated, orphaned animals.

Cheetah rehabilitation programme.
Captive cheetahs given the chance to return into their natural environment, the objective is to see if the cheetahs can sustain life in an area where their progress can be monitored.

For more information and in depth explanations about the above programmes please click onto the AfriCat and AfriLeo links.