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Njueini, J. K., 2021. Masai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) population and land use trends in the Tsavo landscape, Kenya (Masters  dissertation, University of Nairobi).

The Maringa-Lopori-Wamba (MLW) landscape covers approximately 72,000 square kilometers and is home to many endangered species, including the bonobo, found only in the DRC. To help promote long-term resilience and food security, we are intensively…

Growing up on the vast, sun-soaked Athi-Kapiti Plains, just south of Nairobi National Park, Margaret Mereyian spent her school breaks grazing her family’s livestock. The open landscape was alive with zebras, wildebeests, and antelopes, creating a…

The Mara-Serengeti landscape, a transboundary ecosystem connecting Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park with Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, is famous for its great wildebeest migration. But habitat fragmentation and human-wildlife conflict…

This year’s Earth Day theme, “Invest in Our Planet,” emphasizes supporting businesses that protect our environment through their practices and climate-friendly investments. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is proud to partner with companies…

Spanning approximately 49,000 square kilometers across southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, the Tsavo–Mkomazi transboundary landscape is a vital sanctuary for Maasai giraffes. This vast region, located about 250 kilometers south of Nairobi,…

Twice a year, when the rains come, thousands of wildebeest in northern Tanzania begin their migration, spreading out from Lake Manyara and the Tarangire River to the plains, where fresh forage and seasonal streams await them. In their wake, they…

When the Government of Tanzania turned over the Manyara Ranch in April 2001 to a private land trust that AWF and its many collaborators in Tanzania helped establish, the transfer made conservation history.The first land trust of its kind in east…

The Livestock for Livelihoods project at Manyara Ranch recently received TZS 86.7 million worth of equipment from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a two-year $1.1 million grant to improve income generation,…

Poverty in tropical Africa is often described as a trap because it is a curbing, undesirable circumstance from which escape is difficult. Academics around the world believe it, according to a September 2014 online article in The Economist…

Data from the World Bank indicates that humans have already converted approximately 38 percent of the world’s land area for farming and have deforested land for industry, mining, and infrastructure development. Less than 15 percent remains for…