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About a year ago, at the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 56 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of African companies earning at least $140 billion in revenue and…

East Africa's priceless rangelands for years have struggled against degradation caused by overgrazing and soil-depleting crop farming. Now ecologists are coming to grips with a third villain: the leleshwa weed, a fast-growing, tough-to-control shrub…

In August, Simon Muchatibaya joined AWF as the Technical Advisor in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park. Muchatibaya’s role is the result of a partnership between AWF and the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, demonstrating both…

In the past several days, the ICCN (the Democratic Republic of Congo's park and wildlife authority) ranger post stations of Bikenge and Jomba in the Virunga National Park have been attacked by armed groups. Park rangers' weapons and electronic…

For more than 35 years AWF has initiated or contributed to scores of model conservation programs--large and small--that have yielded new knowledge about wildlife and effective ways to assure its survival. Some current projects:In a mutually…

Influencing Africa’s decision-makers is critical to driving positive change for conservation. They shape policies, allocate resources, and determine the direction of actions that impact nature and people. We build relationships, provide credible…

Discovery of Mountain Gorilla, as well as a Poached Elephant in the Same Region, Highlights Ongoing Challenges in Ensuring Security for Wildlife KIGALI, Rwanda, February 13, 2012 -- An anti-poaching patrol in the Virunga Massif made a…

Hi my name is India and I am 18 years old, I live and study in the UK but my heart has always been in Africa. Being half South African and having the opportunity to go to Africa pretty much every year of my life has honestly made me who I…

AWF Discussion Papers, CEC-DP-2. 1997.

On February 27th, scientists at the Goma Volcano Observatory in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo indicated that seismic activity in the region was increasing "very fast". Mount Nyamuragira, they stated could erupt in a "matter of weeks, or…

Since supporting the establishment of the College of African Wildlife Management (Mweka) on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1963, AWF has continued to work with the government of Tanzania and the U.S. Agency for International Development …

Despite twenty-five years in Africa, I’d never had the opportunity to see the western lowland gorilla in the wild. Recently, Wilderness Safaris, the South Africa-based tourism company, developed a new destination in Odzala…

One of the most pressing problems in the field of elephant conservation today involves human-elephant conflict and how to mitigate it so that both man and elephant can successfully co-exist. The world’s population of 7…

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of renowned conservation pioneer and our former colleague, Dr. Mark Stanley Price. Mark served as Director of Africa Operations at AWF for 12 years, overseeing programs in South…

Workshop and field-based training in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mark the first step in fostering greater collaboration, transparency, and information sharing between key stakeholders in countries with at-risk great ape populations. …