Giraffe Conservation Collaboration Award - GCF's first!

This award was created in memoriam of Kai Buchholz, a young, dynamic, pragmatic and visionary individual who truly believed in making this world a better place by bringing people together and finding solutions where others saw only problems. He was a truly brilliant and talented individual - but above all he had very strong values and beliefs.

He was one of these people who really believed in the right thing being done, by him and by others. He was a man of the world, and well travelled in Africa also, where he visited the ‘endangered’ West African giraffe in Niger in 2007. GCF is currently supporting programmes to help conserve the last 200 West African giraffe, so that also others can visit this giraffe population in the future.

Kai died on 12th January 2010 during the truly horrific earthquake in Haiti, while working for the United Nations Stabilization Mission. Kai did indeed know what it means to serve the people of the world: as a ‘relative’ of GCF we hope that his desires, efforts and determination will live on in a small way through conserving Africa’s giraffe for all the people of the world.

In this ‘Year of Biodiversity’ GCF announces its first conservation award programme in memoriam of Kai Buchholz. It is dedicated to a truly collaborative species conservation programme inwhichbrings people together to save giraffe in their natural habitat.

This inaugural award of £1,000 is just a beginning to help the ever-increasing giraffe conservation efforts across the continent. In a pragmatic approach GCF focuses on quality, not quantity, in helping others to conserve Africa’s and the world’s most remarkable species.

If you would like to support the ongoing future of the ‘Giraffe Conservation Collaboration Award’ in honour of Kai Buchholz, please contact the GCF directly on:info@giraffeconservation.org, or visit our website at:www.giraffeconservation.org.