CONSULTING
National Park Conservancy Consulting Services.
Africa’s national parks are some of the continent’s greatest global assets.
But the economic value created by many parks does not yet flow effectively into the communities, businesses and landscapes that surround them.
Rewilding Africa CIC has developed a new approach.
The National Park Conservancy model connects the global brand of an established national park with the communities, landowners, conservation organisations, tourism businesses and investors around it, creating a shared community led conservation destination brand designed to generate greater economic value and stronger incentives for conservation.
FROM ONLY NATIONAL PARKS TO NATIONAL PARKS PLUS NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCIES
We help governments, national park authorities, conservation organisations, communities and private-sector partners answer a fundamental question:
What if the communities living around Africa’s national parks could become owners, stewards and beneficiaries of a new complimentary destination brand, extending the immense value created by the park brand into the surrounding landscapes?
Our consulting offer provides the strategy, structure and practical tools to explore and develop that opportunity.
OUR CONSULTING SERVICES
01 — NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY STRATEGY
Assess the opportunity to establish a community-led conservancy destination around an existing national park.
02 — DESTINATION BRAND DEVELOPMENT
Create the positioning, identity and destination proposition required to develop a national park conservancy for the surrounding landscape into a globally recognised destination.
03 — TOURISM & MARKET DEVELOPMENT
Identify tourism products, experiences, partnerships and market opportunities capable of increasing visitor value and extending economic benefits beyond the park boundary.
04 — STAKEHOLDER & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Bring together communities, traditional leaders, government, park authorities, NGOs, landowners, tourism operators and investors around a shared destination vision.
05 — INVESTMENT & ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Identify opportunities for tourism, enterprise, conservation finance, regenerative land use and other nature-positive economic activity.
06 — PHASE 2 LANDSCAPE PLANNING
Develop the pathway towards a longer-term, data-rich framework for land use, governance, restoration, wildlife connectivity and sustainable development.
THE TWO-PHASE APPROACH
PHASE 1 — BUILD THE DESTINATION
A focused catalytic programme to establish the destination brand, create market demand, engage and align stakeholders and begin to demonstrate the economic opportunity.
PHASE 2 — BUILD THE CONSERVANCY
A longer-term sustainable framework to align land use, governance, investment, restoration, wildlife connectivity and community-led conservation around the emerging destination.
The principle is simple: create the new community led destination brand first, then use that value to align all the stakeholders and create sustainable economic value & incentives.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Governments & Ministries
Develop new tourism destinations, attract investment and create rural economic opportunities.
National Park Authorities
Strengthen the wider destination surrounding the park while creating greater community ownership and support.
Conservation Organisations & NGOs
Connect existing conservation work with destination development, markets and sustainable economic opportunity.
Communities & Traditional Leaders
Create opportunities to participate in and benefit from the destination economy surrounding their national park.
Tourism & Private Sector
Develop new products, partnerships and investment opportunities within emerging conservation destinations.
WHY REWILDING AFRICA CIC?
Rewilding Africa CIC , a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, brings together conservation, destination development, tourism, marketing, stakeholder engagement and community-led economic thinking.
We are not proposing to replace statutory park authorities or existing conservation organisations.
We help connect them.
Our ambition is to help create a network of community-led National Park Conservancies across Africa – transforming the relationship between protected areas and the people who live around them.
CONSULT WITH US
If your organisation is responsible for a national park, conservation landscape or tourism destination and you believe there is greater value waiting to be created around it, we would like to explore the opportunity with you.
Start a conversation about your National Park Conservancy.
Rewilding Africa CIC
Building a rewilded future through community-led conservation.