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U.S. Policy Experts Engage African Officials on Key Legislative Issues, Including Pandemic-Prevention, Conservation Finance, International Wildlife Trafficking, the Climate Crisis, and Biodiversity Loss WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NAIROBI (May…

The African Wildlife Foundation recently helped launch another first in Africa. In keeping with its longstanding commitment to train African conservationists, AWF helped create a new distance-learning program in which students can earn a master's…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) today officially handed over 27 hectares of restored land to the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) for inclusion in Volcanoes National Park. This significant addition, achieved after four years of collaborative…

In the recently concluded national exams, Manyara Ranch Primary School was ranked second best in the district, with 133 out of 136 students passing and transitioning to secondary school MANYARA, TANZANIA (February 23, 2023) — The African…

Arusha, Tanzania, Wednesday, 17th July 2024 – The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is pleased to announce the successful handover of Manyara Ranch to the Manyara Ranch Management Trust after two decades of transformative conservation and community…

 The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) handed over four forensic workstations to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) on December 14, 2021 at a hotel in Kampala, Uganda. The workstations ensure that UWA investigators have the capacity to…

(NAIROBI, KENYA — April 11, 2022) The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) donated an array of forensic investigation equipment and accessories aimed at bridging the resource gap that most trained experts have identified as high-priority items. The…

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA (February 8, 2023) — Today, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) officially handed over a canine facility to the Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA) at the TAWA base, Mbezi Beach. The transfer of the canine…

  (Harare, Zimbabwe-January 26, 2024)-In a long overdue gesture to strengthen anti-poaching operations in protected and communal areas of the Mid Zambezi Valley Landscape, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) handed over ranger field…

On December 16, 2021, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) passed out 18 launch-master coxswain trainees at one of Zimbabwe’s premier tourist destinations, Lake Kariba. AWF has been working with the Zimbabwe National Army Boat Squadron Regiment…

In 1979, AWF member Frank Rus, of Naperville, Ill., decided to make a trip that travel agents described as impossible, traveling the Congo River 1,100 miles from Kinshasa to the end of navigation, Kisingani. Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo)…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is gearing up for the second in-person conference of the Africa Protected Areas Directors (APAD) network, slated to convene in Zimbabwe next week.  Scheduled from March 5th to 8th, this pivotal event…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) will next week hold two regional conferences in northern Cameroon as part of its conservation interventions in the Faro landscape. The International Conference of Transhumance and the Forum for Major…

WASHINGTON, DC, September 19, 2012 -- African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) fondly remembers environmental visionary and AWF co-founder Russell E. Train, who died September 17 at the age of 92. AWF extends its deepest sympathy to his family. …