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Jean Niwiya has known both sides of the illegal wildlife trade. Before 2015, the 39-year-old father of eight made his living snaring small wildlife in the expansive Bili forest in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo and selling…

The African Wildlife Foundation and Nature’s Best Photography tapped a diverse cadre of wildlife photographers, filmmakers, leading conservationists, and prominent safari guides to serve as judges for the 2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife…

​As a child, I spent a lot of time exploring woods in England and France—anything living fascinated me, and I had a strong need to explore and have adventures. Much later, based on this interest, I went to university to study biology.I thoroughly…

Born in Ancona, Italy, a small seaside town on the eastern coast, Marchegiani comes from a family with a long history in the countryside hamlets of Marche. Since his first trip to Africa when he was 10 years old, he has returned with his father…

Although Ona Basimane began his career as a safari guide in 2007, he has nurtured his knowledge of Botswana’s wildlife and wild lands since childhood. Growing up in Maun — considered the gateway for tourism into Botswana’s remarkable Okavango Delta …

I would like to introduce you to Nnzumbeni Tshikalange who is running the Limpopo Leopard Project for the next few months. Nnzumbeni hails from the Limpopo Province near Thohoyandou, the capital city of the former Venda. She obtained her bachelor…

AWF strongly believes that Africans are the ideal stewards of the continent's natural resources and that's why more than 80 percent of AWF's staff are African. But, AWF believes that simply hiring Africans is not enough. In order to empower Africans…

Hello, fellow AWF members and wildlife enthusiasts. I want to start by thanking you for reading along with me as I blog about the amazing trip I’ll be taking thanks to AWF’s generosity and the kind of luck that strikes once in a lifetime (if it…

Comprising environmental policy experts, youth networks, and grassroots conservation groups, African Wildlife Foundation’s delegation to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference also includes two professionals enrolled in AWF’s 2022 Charles…

Antidius Raphael, African Wildlife Foundation’s new Ecohydrologist in Kilombero, Southern Tanzania, started his journey with the organization as a student trainee in 2019 while completing an undergraduate degree at the Sokoine University of…

Evaline Adei Ayepa is a Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) community conservation ranger born and raised in Moroto district in Karamoja, northern Uganda. Growing up, she desired to be a teacher, and until 2015 taught grade three students at a school in…

African Wildlife Ecology Handbook Series, No. 2. 1979.