Four founders. One memorandum with KWS. A handful of aircraft, a hundred years of combined experience between the cockpit, the bush, and the kitchen table where a ranger family receives the news.
In 2017 we lost a brother, a colleague, a friend. Sgt. Patrick Ouma was killed on a night patrol near the Galana boundary. The aerial response that night took four hours, and by the time it arrived there was nothing to do.
Sentinel exists because four hours is the wrong answer. Twelve minutes is the right one. We built an aviation unit because aircraft are the only way to cover 13,747 km2 of rough country in time to matter.
And we built a family support program because we know — personally, viscerally — that the cost of this work is paid not only by the rangers who walk the line, but by the children who wait for them at home.
This page exists for transparency. Here is who we are, who we work with, and who has chosen to stand alongside us.
Twenty years in Kenyan wildlife protection. Led the Tsavo East intelligence cell at KWS before founding Sentinel after losing her brother, a ranger, to a poaching incident in 2017.
Australian bush pilot turned conservation aviator. Joined the Royal Flying Doctor Service at 26, flew search-and-rescue across the Northern Territory for a decade, brought that operational rigor to Sentinel.
Wildlife ecologist focused on elephant corridor connectivity. Authored the 2019 Tsavo Movement Atlas. Designs the science behind every patrol pattern Sentinel flies.
Social worker who built the original family-support framework after the 2018 Galana ambush. Personally manages the relationship with every enrolled family in our care.
Our board sets policy and audits performance. Our advisory council brings expertise we do not have in-house — policy, science, regulation, security.
Sentinel operates inside a network of regulators, conservation organizations and funders. Each partnership is documented, audited and renewed annually.
We are funded entirely by individuals, foundations and corporate partners. There are no government appropriations.