• Dr. Patrick J. Bergin is appointed to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of AWF.
  • The Four Corners Heartland (now called Kazungula Heartland) becomes AWF's sixth and largest conservation landscape. It extends across the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
  • Tanzania's President, Benjamin Mkapa, declares that the government-owned Manyara Ranch will be protected as a major wildlife corridor and gives the ranch to the conservation trust facilitated by AWF.
  • Eugène Rutagarama, Director of the International Gorilla Conservation Program, is awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his heroic and dedicated work protecting the mountain gorillas during war and conflict.
  • AWF-colleagues record three sightings of elephants in the Central Kajido District of the Kilimanjaro Heartland for the first time in 30 years.
  • AWF's Conservation Business Ventures and USAID inaugurate the Koija Starbeds eco-lodge in the Laikipia district of Kenya.