Please Help Pygmy Hippos

Please help save pygmy hippos from extinction. Please support Fauna & Flora today.

These lovable little hippos are facing a dire threat as their forest homes are being destroyed by mining and agricultural expansion, while they are relentlessly hunted for their meat.

Placid and non-confrontational, these pocket-sized hippos prefer to flee rather than fight – but they cannot escape the enormous dangers humans impose on them each and every day.

Pygmy hippos desperately need your help.

They are classified as endangered, and only around 2,000 are left in the wild. Without immediate action, we risk losing them forever.

But if we act now, we could still save them.

Your donation can make a real difference. With your support, we can implement action plans designed to protect the pygmy hippos in their remaining strongholds in Liberia and Upper Guinea. These areas are not only home to a range of threatened wildlife, but they also act as crucial carbon sinks in the fight against climate change.

So please, donate now, and together we could give these incredible creatures a safe future in their wild homes.

The location of Sapo National Park and Ziama-Wonegizi-Wologizi transboundary forest, two key pygmy hippo strongholds Fauna & Flora has been supporting.

We are working tirelessly to safeguard the pygmy hippos in their last remaining homes. Our monitoring work in Sapo National Park and Ziama-Wonegizi-Wologizi transboundary forest has provided crucial insights into the ecology, behaviour and distribution of these creatures.

Camera traps, field surveys, and state of the art eDNA surveys have greatly improved our understanding of pygmy hippos and other threatened species that call these areas home.

The elusive and endangered pygmy hippo, caught on camera in Liberia. Credit: Fauna & Flora/Bucknell University

We have used these findings to put together a national action plan for the conservation of pygmy hippos and identified areas where conservation corridors can be created, providing them with increased protection. This way we can not only help to save pygmy hippos, but also preserve biodiversity and help fight climate change.

Your donation can help us to protect pygmy hippos and so much more . Join us today in giving these incredible mini hippos a safe future in their natural habitats.

Fauna & Flora is the world’s oldest international conservation charity. Over the last 100 years, we have been on almost every frontline of conservation and literally saved species from extinction. We work to protect plants and animals around the globe – never wasting enormous sums of money on excessive publicity or silly gimmicks – instead spending 94% of our income on charitable activities.