Stand with Giants
Double Your Impact
22 - 29 April 2026
Help us raise £200,000 for Human-Elephant Coexistence in Kenya, Uganda and Gabon.
Conservation only works when it works for people.
Across Africa, human-elephant conflict is now one of the fastest-rising threats to the survival of elephants and the families who live alongside them. As farmland pushes into wildlife habitat, a herd moving through a field at night can cost a family its harvest, its income and sometimes its safety. A farmer who cannot feed their children will not be able to carry the cost of conservation, and governments cannot hold a position that asks them to.
Space for Giants works in three landscapes where this collision is happening right now: Kenya, Uganda and Gabon. We build the infrastructure that makes coexistence possible: solar-powered fences along farm boundaries, monitoring systems that track herds before they reach a field, community rangers trained and living in the places they protect, and national-level land-use planning with governments. Coexistence is not a compromise. It is the only outcome that works for everyone, and it has to be built.
This week, we are asking you to help us build more of it. Every pound given before noon on Wednesday 29 April is matched. Every pound pulls the trigger on our Champion match fund.
How your gift is doubled
We have a £50,000 pledge already confirmed from a champion donor. When public donations reach £50,000, we hit £100,000 combined and that triggers a £50,000 match from the Big Give Champion fund. We then raise a further £50,000 in public donations to reach £200,000 in total.
Your donation is not just doubled. It is part of what pulls that trigger. Every pound moves us closer to unlocking the next tranche of matched funding, which goes directly into coexistence infrastructure in Kenya, Uganda and Gabon.
Every donation received will go towards installing smart, solar-powered fencing that prevents conflict before it begins, strengthening rapid-response teams that protect families and elephants, expanding conservation jobs that sustain rural communities and equipping and training local communities to live safely alongside elephants.
Where your gift goes
Gabon
Céleste Mintsa farms at the edge of the rainforest.
Behind her field are some of the last forest elephants on earth — a species that has lost 90% of its population in 50 years. When a herd moved through her crops in the night, her family went without. Space for Giants installed a solar-powered fence at her boundary and built a monitoring system that tracks the herds before they reach her field. Céleste records what crosses and what does not.
The fence holds. Her crops are growing. The elephants are still in the forest.
Uganda
Moses Birungi farms bananas in western Uganda.
For three seasons he spent his nights driving elephants back from his field with a torch and a drum. His land sits at the edge of a wildlife corridor. Space for Giants installed pioneering short-post electric fencing along his boundary, trained a community ranger who responds when a herd moves close, and built a monitoring system that tracks movement before it reaches a field. In the Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area, this approach has reduced crop-raiding by 90%.
Moses still hears elephants in the night. But he does not get up anymore. The fence holds. The bananas grow.
Kenya
Margaret Echwaa farms in Laikipia, alongside an elephant corridor.
Before Space for Giants installed the fence along her boundary, her family could not sleep and her children could not walk to school alone because the route past the farms was not safe. Now they sleep. The children walk to school on their own. The fence holds, the elephants still move through the corridor, and both can continue to exist in the same landscape.
That is what coexistence looks like when someone builds the conditions for it.
Impact so far across Kenya, Uganda and Gabon
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350 km of fencing
Built, overseen and maintained across the three countries.
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90% reduction
In crop-raiding in the Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area, Uganda
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livelihoods protected
290,000 people’s livelihoods protected through the reduction of crop-raiding incidents
Stand with Giants
Double Your Impact
The match window is from 22 April 2026 and closes at noon on Wednesday 29 April 2026. Every pound given before then is doubled, and every pound pulls the trigger on the Champion match. After that, donations are no longer matched.
If you believe conservation only works when it works for people, this week is the week to stand with us.