What is the Ark Angel Society?
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What if you could actually feel empowered to help animals and be an agent of positive change in this planet? Amelia Kinkade provides the answer with her Ark Angel Society, a new nonprofit charity designed to educate children about the value of wildlife and encourage them to help save endangered species from extinction. With a focus on the POACHING crisis, Ark Angel is in Africa every year! Amelia takes the students who come on her safaris to volunteer in schools in rural communities, dancing as animals, drawing animals, and creating theater about poaching. You are invited to support Ark Angel and help African children learn to protect their most precious resource--the animals.
2025: Save Our Elephants!
What a magical year this was for Ark Angel! I had the honor of being able to donate $500 to Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust because of YOUR donations! Chipembele ensures that wildlife education will be a consistent focus for the children of Zambia, who will inherit the responsibility of maintaining a viligant anti-poaching program in S. Luangwa National Park. This year I got to witness the fruits of decades of effort when now some of my students have grown up to be guides and wild-life police in the park.
What is an Ark Angel?
Championing beauty and innocence in all its forms - both in humans and in other animals -- Ark Angel is devoted to reaching children who need to grow up with the self-esteem to know they can make a difference in the restoration of our planet and its endangered wildlife. We can’t start with saving the animals. We must start by educating and enlightening the next generation of children who will save them.
An Ark Angel is a new kind of “angel” for the animals who wields a bold philosophy - a life spent protecting the earth's beauty. This perspective means that are here to be stewards of our planet and have a job to do in order to continue to live alongside Earth’s magnificent animals. It’s a fresh approach, a hands-on intervention which provides a means of co-existing with Nature by enlightening children, lifting the burden that humans have heaped onto the shoulders of innocent animals, and a way of finding hope, direction, and meaning in our lives.
2014: Save our Elephants!
Amelia in Chiwawatala
In November of 2014, I flew to Zambia and visited schools so that I could talk to the students about the tragedy of animal poaching. I also led safaris in South Luangwa National Park where baby elephants and lions get caught in snares set by poachers. Zambia has lost 40% of its elephants to illegal ivory poaching in the last century. Ark Angel's goal is to educate the next generation of children before they are indoctrinated into a world of black market corruption. Working with an innovative wildlife education organization, Chipembele, Ark Angel visited the Chiwawatala school in Mfuwe. This is rural Africa, where food and school funding are scarce. Here in the wildest “bush,” school is considered a rare privilege.
I had the children talk about elephants, dance as elephants, draw elephants in two-figure compositions – that means I didn’t ask the kids to draw isolated elephants, or just the “outer edges” of elephants, but elephants portrayed not as two-dimensional objects or as “menaces” which is how they’re perceived in Africa, but as living, thinking, loving beings who live in family groups and have relationships with each other. The drawings were the most tender, caring, thoughtful and skillful drawings I’ve ever seen drafted by a group of fifty 8-14 year olds.
2015: Save our Lions!
The children of Africa spelled it out for the rest of the world: “WE LOVE CECIL!” Ark Angel was in the Beretta School at Kruger National Park in August of 2015, campaigning to the littlest conservationists of the future, who are already quite convinced they will do everything in their power to protect, not hurt their lions. Funds raised through the We-Love-Cecil campaign were contributed to the education of African children so that they will learn to rescue lions from peril. If you love Cecil the Lion, too, please help Ark Angel educate the next gener ation of little lion lovers so that they grow up to be animal protectors, not poachers.
2015 and 2017: Save Our Gorilla!
Amelia greeted 182 orphans in a field outside of a church where she'd given the ministry in rural Rwanda to educate the children about the atrocities of gorilla poaching. The kids drew gorilla, danced as gorilla, and identified that gorillas love their families and have feelings, too!
2019: Save Our Pangolin
“Sanctuary! Not Soup!” What do these pages spell out? “WE PROTECT PANGOLIN!”
Amelia accepted the invitation to the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, by Isabel Lynch and Lindsay Norman, founders of the Hwange School Project.
Amelia and her volunteers visited the Tsholotsho district schools neighbouring the Hwange National Park so that Amelia and her team could personally interact with the children in rural villages to teach them about the tragedy of poaching innocent little Pangolin.
2024: Save Our Elephants!
What unspeakable joy to be freed from the confines of lock-down! Ark Angel flew back to Africa to continued working with Chipembele Wildlife Conservation in conjunction with Amelia's safaris. Two new students joined the forces to encourage the children in Mfuwe Village to honor their elephant neighbors and not give in to the temptation of poaching these magnificent elders of the planet!
