All our products contribute to wildlife conservation in Tsavo, Kenya, but this collection does so with an added dimension.

Explore our Elephant poo postcards, made from actual elephant dung collected in the area, turning a threat into a livelihood.

Our Snare Keychains, with beads made from snares that poachers place in Tsavo to hunt, but the wildlife works rangers collect on patrols in the conservation area before they can cause harm,

And Basket Soaps, a collaboration between Wildlife Works soap factory who make the organic soap, and our artisans that weave the little sisal basket packaging.

ELEPHANT Poo postcard

A little labour of love. Elephant dung is recycled into elephant poo paper postcards.

ABOUT THE Artisans

Neema Women’s Group was started in 2011 by six women, it now has over fourteen members. Mwachabo is a dry and dusty place, without any water supplies or electricity.

The overarching mission of Neema Women’s Group is to teach their community members the importance of conserving the environment and to help prevent human/wildlife conflict. As elephant dung serves as the ingredient for a cash income for the group, it means elephants can be considered an asset rather than a threat.

ABOUT THE elephant dung PAPER

Neema Women group makes paper art… out of elephant poo. As elephant dung is free and abundant in this area, it makes a good base for recycled paper with a fun and wholly African twist. Elephants are poor digesters of their food and therefore kindly do the first stage of any paper making process: providing the fibres. The group recycle the poo into (clean and crispy!) paper, which is made into postcards.

The front of our postcards has ‘fingerprint art’, for a quite literal handmade touch. We started with an elephant and giraffe design.

Snare keychain

about the snare keychains

In wildlife areas, poachers use metal snare to try catch game meat, for example giraffes, zebras and antilopes. Poaching is illegal in Kenya.

Unarmed rangers from Wildlife Works patrol 200 hectares of protected lands, habitat for african wildlife like the elephant. The snares they find are removed from the natural areas and are brought to the headquarters.

Here the Hadithi Artisans from Maasai groups are invited to make them into charming keychains and metal decorations.

The sales provide a livelihood to the artisan and disarm the poachers.

About the artisans

First the snare wire gets cut into tiny pieces to ensure they can never be a snare again. Maasai beaders come to the Hadithi HQ to coil the wire to beads and make them into keychains.

Organic soap in a basket

about the soap

Tsabuni soap factory was set up in 2002 at Wildlife Works HQ. The soap production employs three local ladies with city-level wages and full health benefits. All soap ingredients and packaging are sourced as much as possible from the Kasigau area community groups. Myrrh from resin on trees in the project area, moringa and jojoba from local production projects, coconut oil and limes from the Kenyan coast.

For our conservation collection the soap is poured into 100 gram round discs.