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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. But,…

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…

AWF Discussion Papers, CEC-DP-1. 1997.

The local communities of the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba (MLW) landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) largely depend on the forest for their survival including agriculture, cultural value, and other non-timber forest products. However, the…

AWF Discussion Papers, CC-DP-9.

Actress Maggie Q joins our public awareness campaign. Washington, DC, June 18, 2013 -- Maggie Q is joining fellow WildAid Ambassadors Yao Ming, Li Bingbing, and Jackie Chan for the “Say No” campaign urging consumers not to…