- By late 1999, AWF is operating in four Africa Heartlands: Kilimanjaro, Maasai Steppe, Samburu, and Virunga.
- AWF's Amboseli Outreach Program is the first conservation group to work specifically with young Maasai warriors and concentrates on easing tensions between livestock owners and wildlife arising from competition for food and water.
- Partnership Options for Resource-Use Innovation (PORI), a project supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and designed to help develop community-based wildlife enterprises in Northern Tanzania, becomes the first African Heartland program. Through PORI, AWF works with landowners, park officials, and other stakeholders to ensure that wildlife and human communities alike thrive.