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To raise awareness of the global importance of bees as pollinators, the threats they face, and their contribution to sustainable development, the United Nations designated May 20 as World Bee Day. In Kenya’s Tsavo landscape, the African Wildlife…

The old saw from Looney Tunes and similarly informed sources has it that African elephants—the mightiest land mammals on Earth which historically were unafraid to charge legions of Roman troops at the nod of their&nbsp…

We have photographed three leopards that were previously not captured by our cameras at the Singita Kruger National Park (SKNP) concession. This is in addition to other leopards in the area. Nnzumbeni together with SKNP’s guiding team and in…

BEADS for Education is an organization dedicated to improving the status of women in Kenya through women's business development and girls education. Working closely with AWF, BEADS developed a successful Maasai women's cooperative in 1993. Today,…

AWF Conservation in Practice Papers, 2005

When AWF helped the women of Kijabe Group Ranch start up a financial services organization back in 2009, little could we have predicted the immense impact the bank would have on the entire community. In 2007, we’d helped open The Sanctuary at Ol…

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Emerton, L. 1999.  Balancing the opportunity costs of wildlife conservation for communities around Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda. Report number: Evaluating Eden Discussion Paper Series No. 5. International Institute for Environment and…

The rebounding of the gorilla population in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park (VNP) is one of conservation’s great success stories. But with that success comes a new challenge: limited space that gorillas and people must share.  Rwanda is…

So I started baiting the cages on Tuesday January 27rd. With the loss of the research leopard due to a porcupine incident, I needed to fit another leopard with the tracking collar. It so happened that at that time I had a visitor to the leopard…

Hi, this is Wellard again --writing to tell you about the rest of our visit to DRC, a journey of mixed emotions. After leaving the beekeepers, we traveled another 12 kilometres of bumpy road to the T-junction to the local army base and the National…

At Kwita Izina ceremony, 18 new baby gorillas receive names Rwandans recently celebrated the birth of 18 baby gorillas at the 10th anniversary of Kwita Izina, the annual gorilla naming ceremony, which took place last Tuesday. The event…

Your eyes were not deceiving you. There is, indeed, a ceremony for naming mountain gorillas and it is called Kwita Izina. The most recent Kwita Izina (which literally means 'to give a name' in Kinyarwanda, the mother tongue of Rwanda) was held in…