Perspectives on a sustainable Africa

GEF Africa Regional Director, Jonky Tenou leads a session during the GEF Operational Focal Points (OFP's) at the African Wildlife Foundation Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya
Global Leadership

Financing Africa’s Nature to Power People, Climate, and Growth: A Conversation with Jonky Tenou, GEF Africa Regional Coordinator

October 16, 2025

From the Organization

AWF Hands Over Canine Unit to Strengthen Tanzania’s Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking

October 21, 2025

Global Environment Facility and African Wildlife Foundation Convene Second Capacity Building Workshop to Enhance Project Oversight in North Africa

September 17, 2025

Technology and innovation to save gorillas: TUI Care Foundation and African Wildlife Foundation join forces to advance community-led conservation in Rwanda

September 10, 2025
More From the Pressroom
Jean Ayolo Yokolo and AWF Senior Social Safeguards Officer, Dodo Moke at one of their presentations to the scouts
Field Journal

Ayolo Lokolo And The Ghosts From His Past

October 28, 2025
Ecoguards collecting data during Willdlife Survey

Rediscovering Faro National Park: A Wildlife Comeback in Cameroon

October 10, 2025
Africa Keystone Protected Area Partnership Heads of State Dessert Reception
Global Leadership

Building Political Will for Conservation: In Conversation with Susan Herman Lylis of ICCF

September 30, 2025

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Dangerous and despicable: the desire for exotic pets threatens African wildlife

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Community-led river monitoring protects wildlife and wild lands

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Close-up photo of adult African elephant in shrubs

Closing legal markets for illicit ivory will save Africa’s elephants

April 5, 2019
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March 29, 2019
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Remembering Sudan: What the loss of the last male northern white rhino means for all of Africa’s rhinos

March 19, 2019
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Image Olivia Mufute, AWF's Country Manager of Zimbabwe, and her best student.

Blazing a trail for woman-led wildlife conservation in rural Zimbabwe

March 8, 2019
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Close-up photo of a rhino grazing in tall shrubland in South Africa

Sides of a Horn draws attention to the human toll of wildlife crime

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Close-up photo of gelada monkey in Ethiopia highlands

Geladas: the extraordinary monkeys bringing tourists to Ethiopia

February 22, 2019
Jacqueline Conciatore
Close-up photo of an African elephant's tusk and trunk

Strengthening Africa’s criminal justice systems to fight illegal wildlife trade

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February 13, 2019
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Close-up photo of chili peppers grown by rural farmers in Uganda to repel elephants

Chili peppers are helping Uganda's elephants and farmers peacefully coexist

February 8, 2019
Methodius Mukhwana
Image of a woman in agriculture on a farm in Tanzania.

Three ways sustainable agriculture protects natural resources and improves livelihoods in southern Tanzania

January 25, 2019
Godlisten Matilya
Close-up photo of a lone Ethiopian wolf

Saving the critically endangered Ethiopian wolf from extinction

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David Williams
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A traditional Cameroonian community honors wildlife conservation and sustainable development

January 4, 2019
Harleen Sehmi