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Learn how we’re protecting Africa’s species each and every day so we never have to live in a world without elephants, rhinos, and other precious wildlife.

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AWF Leads African Youth in Championing Biodiversity Conservation
May 22, 2020
AWF Supports African Civil Society in Building A Strategic Framework
May 08, 2020
AWF Convenes First Virtual African Protected Areas Directors Meeting
April 24, 2020
AWF Mourns the Loss of 12 Rangers Killed in Virunga National Park Attack
April 24, 2020
AWF Launches New 10-Year Strategy For Africa’s Wildlife and Wildlands
April 22, 2020
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Face mask and soap distribution in Dja

Forest protectors in rural Cameroon safeguard communities during COVID-19

May 29, 2020
Giraffe, elephants and zebra in African savannah

Revaluing biodiversity amid a global health and economic crisis

May 22, 2020
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