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Wildlife poaching and trafficking is a well-organized transnational crime that has decimated iconic species such as elephants, rhinos, pangolins, great apes, and giraffes. This scourge has not spared the Democratic Republic of Congo, given the…

On Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, Mozambique officially welcomed a specialized team of detection dogs and their handlers to Maputo. The new unit has been established to enhance law enforcement activities at critical points along the country’s most notorious…

On September 28, 2018, Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni passed out 487 ranger recruits at Paraa Training Wing in Murchison Falls National Park. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has been working with the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)…

382. That is the staggering number of wildlife product seizures our canine detection units have made in just East Africa alone in roughly six years. African Wildlife Foundation has trained and deployed over 70 dog handlers and 48 dogs have been…

Africa's youth are a powerful force for positive change, and nowhere is this more evident than in the fight for conservation. With the continent facing unprecedented environmental challenges, the upcoming African Conservation Forum (ACF) organized…

As the sun dips below the horizon, casting long shadows on the eventful year 2023, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Zimbabwe office is filled with the insatiable desire to reflect on major milestones registered. Along its journey motif this…

This article is written by a fellow from African Wildlife Foundation’s Charles R. Wall Leadership program following practical training sessions in Nairobi, Kenya to build leadership and conservation management skills. The first time I saw the…

As AWF Trustee Myma Belo-Osagie wrote in her International Women’s Day blog post at the beginning of the month, women in Africa must step up and engage in conservation on the continent. Without their involvement on today’s most pressing matters—such…

African Wildlife Foundation Wins Prestigious Africa Sustainable Futures Award from the Financial Times and the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)AWF takes top spot in the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Protection…

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The African Wildlife Foundation has been awarded a major grant from USAID Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) to lead a conservation initiative across national borders.The Four Corners Project represents unusual potential for transboundary…

Even as it urges the U.S. government and lion range countries to do more to protect the African lion, African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) welcomes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS’s) proposal to list Africa’s largest…

Japanese giant Internet retailer, Rakuten, on July 6, 2017, announced that it was banning the sale of ivory on its site with trading to be phased out over the next month. The move, which came following mounting international criticism of the…

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is pleased to announce the birth of two baby white rhinos in Mosi-Oa-Tunya Park in Zambia. Just over a year ago, AWF helped wildlife authorities settle four new white rhinos in the park after all but one of…