Law of the Wild (South Africa)
Law of the Wild’s mission is to safeguard wildlife and habitats worldwide. They utilise law, policy, and science to enhance and enforce protective regulations, combat poaching, implement relevant treaties, create wildlife corridors, and uplift communities. They believe in the intrinsic value of nature and work to ensure that it is protected in perpetuity.
In 2024-2025, the Eurofins Foundation is contributing to the project “WildRange: Enhancing Habitats, Empowering Communities.”
This is a multi-partner project to create a vast wildlife corridor in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, connecting habitat for rhino, elephant, cheetah, and other at-risk species, while uplifting impoverished communities. While the landscape has high biodiversity, low human population density, and minimal poaching, it has been fragmented by centuries of farming. Progress is well underway: from individual farmsteads to registered nature reserves, many landowners are pursuing official protected area status and will soon be dropping boundary fences.
Additionally, local communities suffer from the legacy of oppression under apartheid and lack employment, education, housing, and water. All aspects of the project will simultaneously benefit marginalised communities, as well as biodiversity. One critically important component of the project will focus on removing highly invasive prickly pear cacti from the landscape and turning the cactus into functional products: (1) bricks for housing and (2) pellets for wildlife during times of drought, providing marginalised community members with skills, entrepreneurship training and direct employment.
These projects contribute to the following United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
