The order of things
In 2002 the Grumeti Community and Wildlife Conservation Fund, established by Paul Tudor Jones, was granted the right to manage and conserve 350,000 acres in the western corridor of the Serengeti. Singita came in 2006, at the concessionaire’s request, and Singita’s own conservation material states it plainly: the Fund was formed to manage the property and Singita was appointed to generate revenue for its conservation work. The hotel is the fund’s earner, not the other way round.
Position
The Fund employs some 165 staff. Its recorded results include the recovery of buffalo, wildebeest and elephant populations and, in 2019, the largest single relocation and reintroduction of nine Critically Endangered Eastern black rhino.
Candour
Figures are the Fund’s own. Private custodianship of public wildlife at this scale — enforcement carried out by a non-profit funded by a luxury operator — raises governance questions the arrangement does not answer, and the Library records the structure rather than endorsing it.
Holdings
What the register records this entity as holding, and in what capacity.