40-year-old Haoua Laraba sits outside her house in Tchamba Village, remembering a time when her days would start with a one-kilometer walk to fetch water from a nearby stream way before sunrise. By the time she walks back, the sun would be up…
After ICCN (the Congo government’s national park and nature conservation authority) officially reopened the Mikeno sector of Virunga National Park for tourism on May 1st, IGCP was invited to train the rangers who would be involved in the handling of…
As I mentioned in my earlier post, working with local communities is crucial in our Grevy’s zebra conservation efforts. We therefore work with local community scouts to monitor Grevy’s zebras and other wild animal numbers, human-wildlife…
It’s an uncharacteristically warm day high in the mountains on the Southern edge of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park here in Southern Uganda. At over 7,000 feet (2,300 meters), the chill during cloudless nights can have a bite, and foggy…
As I emerge from the scrubby undergrowth of the Park-to-farm transitional forest I am startled by Mama Christmas, and older female who has broken from the pack and is sitting stoically on top of a huge boulder overlooking the squawking birds and…
In my next life I'm going to be a gorilla tracker.
Yesterday, I joined a group of trackers as they entered Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda to locate and monitor a group of mountain gorillas. The trip began at sunrise. I picked up Damascene…
Southern Senegal. We are on the border with Guinea, in a gallery forest, tracking chimps. We hear a branch break in the distance and move in that direction.
I am in a full sweat. It is hot, humid in the forest of Dindefelo Reserve…
Following ‘April the Giraffe’ Sponsorship, Toy and Baby Products Retailer Teams Up with African Conservation Organization to Educate Schools in Tanzania, UgandaAfrican Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has announced today, on World Giraffe Day, a new…
At the start of 2014, I was traveling in Dead Vlei, Namibia. When I was in the same location a year earlier, I didn't see any jackals bothering tourists (admittedly, that could have been random luck).Earlier this day, I saw a…
When African Wildlife Foundation designed its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization knew that focusing only on wildlife and wild lands would fall short of mitigating the ongoing crisis. Our decades of experience in conservation in…
A photo diary from Becky Walter, an AWF intern in the field. Click on any of the stunning images below to view it in full size.
"While in Botswana with Enterprise Officer Wilfred, we visited Ngoma Lodge. A new lodge, Ngoma is…
Litre, M., Ihwagi, F.W., Mayienda, R., Bernard, J. and Douglas-Hamilton, I., 2010. Total aerial count of elephants in Laikipia-Samburu ecosystem in November 2008. Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Kenya.
Kissui, B., and Parker, C. 2004. Top-down population regulation of a top predator: lions in the Ngorongoro Crater. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271: 1550: 1867 – 1874.