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AWF Leadership Training Update - Changing the Future of Africa
- 08/02/05
Given poverty levels and overly stretched public budgets, and growing pressures on wildlife throughout Africa, the need for continued support for wildlife education and training initiatives is perhaps greater today than ever. And so, AWF continues its strong tradition in this area. This work is perhaps best exemplified by AWF's Charlotte Fellowship Program.
AWF Unveils Life-sized Mountain Gorilla Sculpture in Uganda
- 07/22/05
Bart Walter's Bronze Sculpture to Honor Uganda's Commitment to Gorilla Conservation
Rabies Outbreak Threatens African Wild Dogs
- 07/06/05
With only 300 African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) left in Kenya, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and our partners are working diligently to mitigate the key threats to this important carnivore. Research on this highly endangered predator is conducted in parts of Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo, and Baringo districts in northern Kenya, a landscape that AWF calls the Samburu Heartland. This area contains a mosaic of land-use types, including pastoralist areas, commercial livestock ranches, areas devoted to wildlife-based tourism, small-scale farming, and protected areas.
Rwanda Comes Together for Gorilla Naming Ceremony
- 06/25/05
President Kagame, wildlife authorities, conservation groups, and residents of Rwanda came together on Saturday for the naming of 30 endangered mountain gorilla babies (Gorilla beringei beringei). There are only 700 mountain gorillas surviving in the world, and 380 of them are in Rwanda. For Rwanda and its people, conservation of mountain gorillas is more than simply preserving one of the world's last great ape species. The gorillas are the country's main tourist attraction and have become perhaps the country's greatest icon.
Starbucks Partners with AWF in its Global Coffee Sustainability Initiatives
- 06/24/05
WASHINGTON & NAIROBI; June 23, 2005 Building on its ongoing global coffee sustainability commitment in coffee farms and cooperatives throughout the world, Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) today announced the launch of the "Coffee for Conservation" project, which is aimed at promoting coffee quality, environmental sustainability and natural resource conservation in east Africa.