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Bees are saving Tanzania’s elephants and improving rural livelihoods
- 03/29/19
- Elephant, Tanzania
- Fadhili Njilima
Ancient elephant migratory routes run through southern Tanzania’s Kilombero Valley, which is part of a dense cluster of wetlands and forests and in the Great Ruaha River Basin and a designated Ramsar site — a distinction bestowed on internationally important wetlands. Allowing elephants and other large mammals to move between protected habitats like the Udzungwa Mountains National Park and Selous Game Reserve, wildlife corridors and dispersal areas are critical in maintaining species health. However, these access routes often cut across large commercial plantations as well as smallholder farms sprawled across the valley’s fertile highlands.
Remembering Sudan: What the loss of the last male northern white rhino means for all of Africa’s rhinos
- 03/19/19
- Rhinoceros, Kenya, East Africa, Southern Africa
- Nathan Gichohi
By the time he passed away on March 19, 2018, Sudan had spent a decade under 24-hour armed surveillance at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He was 45 years old — long past his breeding age and suffering painful degenerative changes in his muscles and bones in his final months. The team of expert veterinary doctors monitoring Sudan’s condition took a difficult decision to euthanize him, leaving behind the last of his subspecies: two female northern white rhinos.
Blazing a trail for woman-led wildlife conservation in rural Zimbabwe
For the first time ever, women will join the forty-plus team of community scouts patrolling Mbire district in Zimbabwe’s wildlife-rich Lower Zambezi Valley. For Country Manager Olivia Mufute, who leads African Wildlife Foundation’s community conservation and wildlife protection programs in the landscape, adding female scouts to the force is not a minor achievement. In fact, it marks the beginning for Zimbabwe’s rural women striving to create a new future by taking up active roles in biodiversity protection.
Sides of a Horn draws attention to the human toll of wildlife crime
- 03/01/19
- Rhinoceros
- Jacqueline Conciatore
A new film highlights the plight of rhinos in Africa as it explores how two people from the same circumstances, community, and even the same family can end up on opposite sides of the war against poaching.
Geladas: the extraordinary monkeys bringing tourists to Ethiopia
- 02/22/19
- Simien Mountains, Gelada
- Jacqueline Conciatore
When it comes to primate species with fascinating idiosyncrasies, geladas do not disappoint. These highland monkeys, also known as gelada baboons and bleeding-heart baboons, are highly social, occupying herds that are several hundred or even 1,000 strong. Found only in Ethiopia, this iconic species is a big tourism draw for Simien Mountains National Park, along with other endemic but threatened wildlife like the Ethiopian wolf and the Walia ibex.