Using innovative conservation strategies and collaborating closely with local communities, partner NGOS, national parks and government agencies, (continued on schedule o - supplemental information)big life foundation USA seeks to protect and sustain EAST africa's wildlife and wild lands, including one of the greatest populations of elephants left in EAST africa. The first organization to fund coordinated ANTI-poaching teams in EAST africa operating on both sides of the kenya-tanzania border, big life USA recognizes that sustainable conservation CAN only be achieved through a community-based collaborative approach, which is at the heart of big life USA's philosophy: conservation supports the people and people support conservation. Big life USA's vision is to establish a successful holistic conservation model in the amboseli-tsavo-kilimanjaro ecosystem that CAN be replicated across the african continent.