Just 7.35% of this country is protected, and just 1% is covered in forest. Around 58% of the country is desert, with a further 30% considered at danger of encroachment. Despite this, there is a wide range of wildlife, including large herbivorous mammals such as gazelles, antelopes, giraffes, and elephants. The main carnivores are lions, leopards, and hyenas, however there are also cheetah wild dog, Serval, Caracal and African sand cat . Of particular interest, though the Mali lion is the Asiatic subspecies (Asiatic lion, West African clade) and the Mali cheetah which is part of the west-African sub-species (and native to the Sahara and the Sahel deserts). Some sources suggest the African wild dog is extinct in Mali, and certainly if it still exists, its population will be small. Having said this, there appears to be plenty of area in the country set aside for nature, so it may well be a good place to return the wild dog (so long as the reason that the wild dog went extinct is no longer an issue).

As yet, we have no connections within the country. Below is a list of some of the places of note that exist, we are eager to work with people on the ground in these locations. Get in touch by clicking on list your wild place on the landing page (or click here)