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African Wildlife Foundation commends World Wildlife Fund and others for pressuring Soco International to abandon its oil plans in Africa’s oldest park In a surprise move, British oil company Soco International has abandoned plans to…

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TALKS WITH Patrick Bergin, executive officer of the AWF Community Conservation Service Center in Tanzania and Bettie Loibooki of the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) staff, who along with Alan Kijazi of the Ngorongoro…

by R. Michael Wright, President, AWFFifteen-foot crocodiles slithered across the sandbanks and plunged into the river as the vibrations of the South African National Park Service helicopter reached them. We seemed perilously close to the red rock…

Born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Brian still calls Zimbabwe home, even if he spends more time in the rest of Africa and the UK. He completed his MBA at York St John, UK, majoring in leading innovation and change. Brian promotes leadership…

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Police in Kenya have arrested several people in connection with two caches of illegal ivory seized in Thailand and Singapore respectively. Abdurahman Mohammed Sheikh, a tycoon living in Mombassa, Kenya, and his two sons…

Pollution, unchecked development, and uncontrolled fishing are endangering the ecological health of the Chobe River, experts recently told the Daily News, a Botswana daily. The Chobe River marks the boundaries of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, and…

Iyondji Community Bonobo Reserve (ICBR) was established at the request of the Iyondji community, who saw the benefits their neighbors were enjoying as the result of living alongside the Lomako Reserve—specifically job creation and income…

Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains National Park is home to some of the world’s most unique and endangered wildlife, including one species of mountain goat (the Walia ibex) that is found exclusively in the park. Due to its exceptional beauty and…

Tourists will be able to fly directly into Uganda’s pristine national parks without needing first to clear immigration at the country’s international airport. The announcement was among a raft of incentives approved by the Government of Uganda…

We are still having difficulties locating the bonobos in our research area, but we are finding their food traces of Haumania and Palisota as well as their nests a bit further afield, approximately 7 kilometers from camp.The reason lying behind this…

LUIKOTALE, DRC--Long regarded as the 'peace lovers' of the world's great apes, bonobos are known for their female-dominated societies and frequent sexual interactions with different partners.However, a new study published in Current Biology suggests…