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The Bili-Uele Protected Area Complex stretches over 40,000 square kilometers and hosts significant populations of Eastern chimpanzees and forest elephants. Because this area makes up part of the Congo Basin rainforest—a vital global carbon sink,…

The world’s appetite for ivory has, for years now, been the driving force behind the catastrophic decline in Africa’s elephant population. A recently completed census revealed that Africa’s elephant numbers have declined by a full 30 percent…

HRH The Duke of Cambridge presented Big Life Foundation Co-Founder and Director of Operations Richard Bonham with the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa at the 2nd annual Tusk Conservation Awards ceremony in London Tuesday night. …

Sometimes it takes a big, strong father-figure to get an unruly teenage male to shape up.And that's not just in humans. Take the situation in South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park, where the matriarchal elephants a few years ago welcomed and…

When left to its own devices, nature does a remarkable job of taking care of itself. Consider Chernobyl, the Russian city that was permanently evacuated when a nuclear power plant exploded in 1986. According to a study in the October 2015…

By Patrick J. Bergin, Ph.D.WASHINGTON - The recent report by Dr. Peter D. Walsh on the significant declines in gorilla and chimpanzee populations in Gabon and the Republic of Congo shows that once again the conservation community is forced to rely…

Van der Linde, H., J. Oglethorpe, T. Sandwith, D. Snelson, and Y. Tessema (with contributions from Anada Tiéga and Thomas Price). 2001. Beyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C., U.S.A.:…

At eleven years old, Mboyo Elombe already has a few loves. The first is a love for the natural wealth that her village holds. Her second is school. And her third is the Bonobo.For the past three years, Mboyo has been a member of the “Bonobo” Club,…

It’s hard to overstate the ecological value of the Congo Basin. The second-largest tropical rainforest in the world after the Amazon, the Basin is sometimes referred to as the world’s second lung for its ability to absorb…

On the sidelines of the 4th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a significant side event titled "Beyond 30x30: Integrating Protected and Conserved Areas into the Implementation of…

On the third of December 2008 at 12:30 p.m, we left the camp to go to the forest to look for bonobos as usual. We were four teams among which Papa Charment, Gladez and myself took the lead; while Papa Bosco, Isaac and Medos each made one team.We…

Beth leads AWF’s marketing and communications efforts. She brings more than 25 years of experience working at the intersection of nonprofits, science, and media, with leadership roles at The Walt Disney Company, National Geographic, Conservation…

Jackson, WY: The National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) will open the Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards exhibition on Saturday, November 4, 2023. The Mkapa Awards are presented in partnership with and traveled by the African…

Snyman, S.S., Fitzgerald, K., Bakteeva, A., Ngoga, T. and Mugabukomeye, B., 2023. Benefit-sharing from protected area tourism: A 15-year review of the Rwanda tourism revenue sharing programme. Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, 1, p.1052052. https:/…