Our mission is to bridge the gap between the public, community and private sectors; provide specialized antipoaching support and assist in the protection of Africa’s endangered wildlife. This concern grew to an awareness campaign, the establishment of a specialized anti-poaching unit and a team of conservation consultants to focus on proactive, effective wildlife law enforcement. AWT was founded b
y Pratik Patel, a third generation Tanzanian whose family has a successful and long-standing photo safari business, bringing to light the phrase “Born in Africa to Protect Africa”. Pratik’s “on-the-ground”, day to day presence sets AWT apart from most. Since first witnessing what is happening to elephants at a rate that can only lead to extinction, Pratik has spent a great deal of his own money in the fight to protect these majestic creatures. With the growing challenge that poaching Africa’s endangered wildlife was presenting, Pratik recognized the need to build an organization capable of raising the funding required to fight poaching and protect Tanzania’s precious wildlife resources.
