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The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) have rolled out the first African regional training workshop to enhance the operational effectiveness of GEF Operational Focal Points (OFPs) across 23 African countries…

Driven by international poaching syndicates as well as local bush meat hunters, the illegal killing, trading, and trafficking of wildlife and wildlife products keep African species at risk. Learn from Didi Wamukoya, African Wildlife Foundation’s…

Five of Kevin Dooley’s photographs were highly honored at the Benjamin Mkapa Wildlife Photography Awards, in addition to his winning image. His stunning black-and-white composition of a baby African savanna elephant clambering amidst the mud and…

Link to: https://www.independent.co.uk/stop-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/wildlife-trade-campaign-study-elephants-b1790797.html

The illegal trafficking of protected African wildlife species can take various gory forms across the continent. Wildlife management authorities and investigators often discover concealed elephant tusks still dripping with blood or even pieces of…

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA--Approximately 119 tons of stockpiled ivory from more than 10,000 elephants will be auctioned from four southern African nations starting in late October. The sale is the first to be sanctioned in nearly a decade.Japan,…

Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group survey documenting land tenure status, socio-economic and biodiversity profiles in two Southern Tanzania landscapes. 2017.

Ngene, S., Njumbi, S., Nzisa, M., Kimitei, K., Mukeka, J., Muya, S., Ihwagi, F. and Omondi, P., 2013. Status and trends of the elephant population in the Tsavo–Mkomazi ecosystem. Pachyderm, 53, pp.38-50.

Okello, M.M., Kiringe, J.W., Warinwa, F., Muruthi, P., Kenana, L., Kanga, E., Ndambuki, S., Massawe, E., Kimutai, D., Mwita, M. and Maliti, H., 2015. Status and population trend of the common eland in the Kenya Tanzania borderland: 2010 and 2013…

Since 2001, AWF has supported the people and government of Zimbabwe to protect and restore landscapes such as the Mid-Zambezi and the Southeast Lowveld as anchor points for a vibrant wildlife economy.  Our landscape-level work in Zimbabwe has…

As many as 35,000 African elephants are killed by poachers every year. In the last five years, the elephant population in Tanzania—historically one of the great elephant range states—has declined by more than 60 percent. To the…

Earlier today local Ambassadors, including Musicians Quoc Trung, Do Bao, Producer-MC Anh Tuan, Actresses Hong Anh and Minh Trang, MC Phan Anh, Miss Vietnam Thu Thuy, and Singers Duc Tuan and Le Cat Trong Ly, were at the Sheraton Hanoi Hotel at…

WASHINGTON & NAIROBI; June 23, 2005 Building on its ongoing global coffee sustainability commitment in coffee farms and cooperatives throughout the world, Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq: SBUX) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) today…

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2006--Coffee Farmers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania Honored; Highlighted Progress, Shared Best Practices, and Generated Dialogue around Future PrioritiesIn acknowledgment of the significant progress…