Conservation | Devon Jenkin Photography
Conservation
Supporting African Wildlife Through Photography
Every print sold through Devon Jenkin Photography carries more than an image.
A portion of each sale is directed toward conservation work protecting African wildlife, wild places, and the people working to safeguard them. It is a simple promise: if these landscapes have given me a life, a career, and the images on these walls, then the work must give something back.
Why Conservation Matters
Conservation is not only about saving individual animals. It is about protecting the living systems that allow wild places to function — the predators, prey, birds, insects, rivers, trees, soils, and people that are all connected.
Across Africa, many of these systems are under increasing pressure. Wild land is being lost or fragmented. Human-wildlife conflict is growing. Species are being pushed into smaller and more isolated spaces. Climate change, poaching, poisoning, and expanding human needs all add pressure to landscapes that are already carrying a heavy load.
This is not an abstract issue for me.
These are the places I have worked in, guided in, slept in, photographed, tracked through, and returned to for most of my adult life. I have seen what healthy wild land looks like. I have also seen how quickly that balance can be disturbed.
The purpose of this page is not to make grand claims. It is to show where a portion of your purchase goes, and why that matters.
Why Africa?
Africa still holds some of the world’s most remarkable remaining wildlife landscapes. Its savannahs, wetlands, forests, deserts, and floodplains support species and ecological relationships found nowhere else on Earth.
But effective conservation in Africa is not as simple as putting fences around animals. It depends on good science, local knowledge, community involvement, long-term funding, and practical work on the ground.
The organisations supported through Devon Jenkin Photography were chosen because their work is rooted in the field. They are not distant ideas attached to a marketing slogan. They are connected to the landscapes, species, and conservation challenges that have shaped my own life and work.
How Your Print Helps
Wildlife photography can create a powerful connection. But connection should lead somewhere useful.
When you purchase a fine art print, part of that sale is directed toward selected conservation programmes working in Africa. You do not need to add a donation or take an extra step. The contribution is built into the purchase.
The print becomes more than a piece of art for your home. It becomes a small, practical contribution to the protection of the wild places that made the image possible.
The organisations supported are selected for their field-based work, scientific value, community involvement, and relevance to the species and landscapes represented in my collections.
Conservation Partners
Botswana Predator Conservation
Supported by: Living Earth and Echoes of Silence collections
Botswana Predator Conservation is one of Africa’s respected long-term predator research and conservation organisations, working with large carnivores in Botswana’s key wildlife areas.
Predators sit at the centre of healthy ecosystems. Lions, leopards, cheetahs, African wild dogs, hyenas, and other carnivores influence the movement, behaviour, and balance of the animals around them. When predator populations are damaged, the effects reach far beyond the species themselves.
Their protection requires more than admiration. It requires research, monitoring, conflict mitigation, and long-term understanding of how these animals move through shared landscapes.
Botswana Predator Conservation’s work includes:
- Long-term research and monitoring of large carnivores
- Field-based data collection to support conservation decision-making
- Human-wildlife conflict research and mitigation
- Collaboration with local communities, government, and conservation partners
- Training and support for future conservation scientists
I have worked in many of the landscapes where these predators live. I have followed lion tracks through Kalahari sand, watched wild dogs hunt through mopane woodland, and spent long hours with cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas in the field.
Supporting predator conservation is not separate from my photography. It is part of the same relationship with the wild.
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BirdLife Botswana
Supported by: Songs of Flight collection
BirdLife Botswana works to protect Botswana’s birds and the habitats they depend on.
Birds are often one of the clearest signs of a healthy ecosystem. Their presence, movement, breeding success, and decline can tell us a great deal about the condition of the land. From fish eagles over the Okavango to vultures circling above the Kalahari, birds are woven into the identity of African wild places.
They are also under serious pressure.
Habitat loss, poisoning, power line collisions, climate change, and disturbance all affect bird populations. Vultures in particular face a severe conservation crisis across much of Africa, despite playing an essential role in keeping ecosystems healthy.
BirdLife Botswana’s work includes:
- Bird conservation and habitat protection
- Vulture conservation and anti-poisoning awareness
- Monitoring of important bird areas
- Environmental education and community outreach
- Citizen science and public involvement in bird conservation
- Advocacy for bird-friendly land use and policy
The Songs of Flight collection exists because birds have always been part of my experience of Africa. They are movement, sound, colour, warning, rhythm, and life. Supporting BirdLife Botswana helps keep those skies alive.
The Bigger Picture
Conservation is slow work. It does not happen through one campaign, one image, or one donation.
It happens through steady, often difficult effort: researchers collecting data year after year, communities finding ways to live alongside wildlife, guides and conservationists reporting what they see, and people choosing to keep wild land valuable while it is still wild.
A print purchase will not solve these challenges on its own. But it does become part of something larger.
It helps fund practical conservation work. It keeps attention on the species and landscapes that need it. And it allows the image on your wall to carry a deeper connection to the place it came from.
Thank you for being part of that.