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The African Rainforest Conservancy (ARC) promotes the restoration of African rainforests — among the oldest and most biodiverse in the world — by funding indigenous grassroots conservation organizations. By providing new economic and educational opportunities to local men, women, and children, we empower these communities to preserve their natural heritage for all mankind.

The Eastern Arc is a crescent-shaped chain of cool, moist mountain islands rising from a sea of hot, dry savannah. Scientists call it the Galapagos of Africa for its concentration of endemic species found nowhere else in the world. These relic forests — thought to have survived for 100 MILLION YEARS — are under intense human pressure from illegal timber cutting, uncontrolled fires, and the spread of agricultural land.

ARC has been fighting that trend since 1991 by funding the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG), one of Africa's leading indigenous forest conservation organizations. With Ac support, TFCG has pioneered "Participatory Forest Management" in the Eastern Arc, providing enviromental education and forest management aid to a network of over 60 villages. In the last 10 years, local people have once again become stewards of the land, planting more than 2 MILLION TREES in the process.

ARC now seeks to enable other grass-roots organizations to follow TFCG's conservation model. By providing men, women and children with new educational and economic opportunities, ARC empowers local communities to re-establish a sustainable relationship with their forest resources and help to preserve this priceless natural heritage for all humanity.



ARC was formerly known as the Tanzania Wildlife Fund

A complete copy of our audited annual financial report
may be obtained from ARC or by writing to:
NYS Department of Charities Registration
162 Washngton Avenue
Albany, NY 12231

ARC is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation.
Donations are deductible to the full extent of the law.