Cessna for African Conservation
Get researchh explorers in, where there are no roads in Africa. How?
Buy them an airplane.
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In a wild land where animals are plentiful and roads are few...
Photographs, except where noted otherwise, are credited, copyrighted, and courtesy of National Geographic and Michael Nichols. Photograph of aircraft courtesy Cessna.

Photo at top: Mbeli Bai was cleared by elephants in search of salt, but reverted to vegetation favored by gorilla — probably after French loggers found the clearing and shot the elephants for sport.

Headline photo at left: In the Dzanga Bai, a protective female charges toward the human scent .

These notes and photos are a small part of Michael "Nick" Nichols' amazing new book. More info >
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Where conservationists are working to save the ancient heart of the world, man not only can fly — he must.

Cessna For African Conservation.com is a volunteer effort to ensure that researchers and conservationists from Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and National Geographic (NGS) have the airborne resources they need.

All monies raised will go to buy a Cessna 182 T and pay operating and maintenance costs. All gifts are tax-deductible to the donor.

 The aircraft is being fitted with long-range fiberglass main tanks and tip tanks, a high capacity alternator, back-up vacuum pump, large tires and the equipment needed to make it as bush worthy as possible.

The aircraft will range over Central Africa and enable conservationist pilots to zero in on and identify individual species and human settlements; count roads, and rivers accessible by people, electrical power infrastructure, and irrigation systems. It will create access in some of the most remote – and most beautiful areas on the planet...
Not having an airplane to support conservation projects in East and Central Africa is like not having a boat for a marine program.

David Moyer
Wildlife Conservation Society
It's a unique project with lasting impact.
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book: The Last Place On Earth
Photo: Mark Christmas/National Geographic Society

Michael Fay (above) who pilots the Cessna 182 tells us how it really is...

“We got about 40 miles out and my computer started acting funny, the photo software was going haywire… All of the sudden we’re getting no juice charging our battery… So what do you do? We decided to head back. Turning back with a 40 year old Cessna happens quite a bit.

“We arrived safely, took a look at the generator, the connections, the wires and decided after about three hours of fiddling that we needed help — it was not something we could fix on the strip. 

“Old Cessna owners are like old Land Rover owners. They swear up and down that these are the most wonderful aircraft on the planet…”
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The Last Place on Earth
Two-Volume Box Set

The photography you see on this web site (unless specified) is from this gorgeously illustrated two-volume set of photos that document a trek 2,000 miles through Africa by National Geographic photographer Michael ''Nick'' Nichols.

Nick set out with ecologist Mike Fay on the “megatransect expedition,” a grueling 456-day, 2,000-mile trek from Congo’s deepest forest to Gabon's virgin shore. The result of their efforts is The Last Place on Earth, revealing a landmark work so startling...
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