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FCF combines extensive anti-poaching work with community development and research programs to help conserve Tanzania's wilderness areas.
Tanzania's unique and internationally significant Protected Area Network is under unsustainable pressure from illegal harvesting of natural resources. Commercial poaching for the ivory, bush meat and hardwood black markets, as well as all forms of subsistence poaching, are at levels that threaten the existence of some of the last untamed wilderness and wildlife in East Africa.
FCF conducts an extensive anti-poaching program to counteract this threat to these wild areas, but also recognizes that much of the poaching is due to a lack of alternatives: with families to feed and children to educate, many poachers do so out of desperation. To create alternatives to poaching FCF has developed an innovative community development program aimed at educating Tanzanians and promoting sustainable livelihoods.
To monitor trends in these areas FCF conducts data collection in the field, with a growing Geographic Information System in Arusha that uses this research data for management and planning purposes.
In all three of these initiatives FCF works closely with the Tanzanian authorities: the Wildlife Division, the Tanzanian Wildlife Research Institute and all levels of government.
  
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