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What We Fund

Where the LRF Invests

The Lion Recovery Fund’s goal is to double the number of lions by 2050 through deeper and broader actions by the conservation and philanthropic community alike. 

We target protected landscapes—core protected areas and the communal areas within, around and connecting them—so that they are resourced and managed to help lions, their habitats and prey, and people thrive.

Please download our February 2023 Progress Report for a more detailed look into the focus of our investments.

Rescue

Rescue

Preventing lions from going extinct in more countries by investing in protecting and recovering the last remaining populations in the most vulnerable range states.

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Recover

Recover

Investing in landscapes with the greatest potential for lion recovery.

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Retain

Retain

Investing in protecting the largest remaining lion populations.

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Rescue

Rescue

Preventing lions from going extinct in more countries by investing in protecting and recovering the last remaining populations in the most vulnerable range states.

Recover

Recover

Investing in landscapes with the greatest potential for lion recovery.

Retain

Retain

Investing in protecting the largest remaining lion populations.

Rescue

Preventing lions from going extinct in more countries by investing in protecting and recovering the last remaining populations in the most vulnerable range states.

Recover

Investing in landscapes with the greatest potential for lion recovery.

Retain

Investing in protecting the largest remaining lion populations.

Types of LRF Projects

The LRF supports projects that are congruent with the LRF Strategic Pillars and the Declarations to Recover Lions. Learn more about these projects below.

Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade

Support to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, chiefly trade in bushmeat and lion body parts.

Human-Lion Coexistence

Support for projects that promote and incentivize coexistence between communities and wildlife, promote nature-based land uses (such as wildlife conservancies used for photographic tourism), and that reduce the costs of living with wildlife.

Conservation Planning, etc.

Other projects such as conservation planning, reintroductions, and campaigns to build public, political, and philanthropic will for lion conservation.

Protected Area Management

Support for the management of under-funded protected and other wildlife areas to safeguard lions, their habitats, and their prey.

Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade

Human-Lion Coexistence

Conservation Planning, etc.

Protected Area Management

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Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade

Support to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, chiefly trade in bushmeat and lion body parts.

Lions - LRF

Human-Lion Coexistence

Support for projects that promote and incentivize coexistence between communities and wildlife, promote nature-based land uses (such as wildlife conservancies used for photographic tourism), and that reduce the costs of living with wildlife.

Lions - LRF

Conservation Planning, etc.

Other projects such as conservation planning, reintroductions, and campaigns to build public, political, and philanthropic will for lion conservation.

Lions - LRF

Protected Area Management

Support for the management of under-funded protected and other wildlife areas to safeguard lions, their habitats, and their prey.

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The Lion Recovery Fund maintains a 100% donation model. Every dollar raised is directly deployed to projects that recover lions, with zero administrative fees or overhead.

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