Giant Sable Fund

The Giant Sable Fund (formally The Giant Sable Fund, Inc.) is an American nonprofit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the study and protection of the giant sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani) in Angola.

Background

The Giant Sable Fund was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in the United States in 2007. Its mission is to study and protect the giant sable antelope in its native habitat in the miombo highlands of central Angola, where the subspecies is considered critically endangered.

Documentary film

The Giant Sable Fund is producing a feature-length documentary AbOUT the conservation of the giant sable antelope, with field access to Cangandala National Park and the Luando Integral Nature Reserve, The Two remaining strongholds of the subspecies. The film is being made in collaboration with the scientists and communities working to protect the species, with completion expected by mid-2027.

The organisation's YouTube channel also hosts the previously unreleased 2010 documentary by Canadian-Angolan filmmaker Kalunga Lima, who died in a scuba diving accident that year at the age of 37 before his film could be officially released. Lima's film had been screened at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Association with conservation efforts

The Giant Sable Fund supports conservation efforts for the giant sable in Angola, which have been led since 2003 by biologist Pedro Vaz Pinto and the Kissama Foundation. The fund's board includes John Frederick Walker, author of A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola (Grove Atlantic)

See also

• Giant sable antelope
• Cangandala National Park
• Luando Integral Nature Reserve
• Pedro Vaz Pinto