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Congolese authorities have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of 10 mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year. The suspect is a senior park official and the ongoing investigation attributes the motivation…

Conservationists and park officials have managed to protect the Virunga population of highly endangered mountain gorillas despite protracted conflict in and around their habitat, the mountains where Congo-Kinshasa meets Rwanda and Uganda. The…

AWF With the International Gorilla Conservation Programme Celebrates Conservation Win KIGALI, RWANDA - The number on one of the world's most charismatic and endangered species is in.The analysis of the census conducted in March…

Total world population of endangered species now stands at 880 KAMPALA, Uganda, November 13, 2013 -- Despite conflicts in surrounding regions that potentially threaten mountain gorillas, results from a 2011 census has found that Uganda&#39…

Emerton L. 1999. Mount Kenya: the economics of community conservation. London: International Institute for Environment and Development; 1999 Sep.

Yes, a census is about getting the population numbers of mountain gorillas and their distributions within the forest. But what goes on in the course of conducting the census is, in some ways, much more valuable than the results themselves. On my…

After a three-hour ride on the back of a 125cc motorcycle from Djolu, a small town in AWF’s Congo landscape in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we came across a boisterous group of boys rushing up a trail through the…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2018.

Just a year after the first five ruffed lemurs raised in captivity made news when they were reintroduced into their native Madagascar, four others made the same trip from the United States to the Betampona Natural Reserve.After a few weeks of…

scroll down for the French version.On Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the French Development Agency signed an agreement designating 781,000 Euros (approximately 1,025,000 USD) for the recently created Lomako…

Intensive conservation efforts over the last few decades saved the mountain gorilla from extinction. Securing a larger forest habitat for the growing population will allow the endangered species to flourish. In January 2018, African Wildlife…

Earlier this summer I wrote about the Ethiopian wolf, the world’s most endangered canid with a worldwide population of less than 500 animals. Though a megafaunal predator balanced on the brink of extinction, the kind of critter that…

The pangolin, with its small, elongated head, short legs, and three curved claws on its forefeet, is covered in shiny, sharp brown scales. This docile nocturnal mammal suffers from the growing pressure of poaching in its natural habitats in Africa…