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As we climbed out of Kigali on to one of the ridges leading north-west to the Volcanoes National Park area I was surprised to see the lush, green landscape spreading out across the ridges and valleys way into the distance. This landscape contrasted…

AWF’s climate change programme focuses on both climate mitigation and adaptation and the inclusion of climate-related impacts into AWF’s entire conservation planning framework. The development of Reducing Emissions from…

Valued at an estimated $10–$20 billion per year, the global illegal wildlife trade is said to be the fourth-largest illegal trade in the world. To date, much attention has been focused on consumer countries in Asia, a major…

The Truth About Lions': AWF Researcher Bernard Kissui Comments on Lion CrisisAWF's Bernard Kissui is among the researchers trying to stem the startling decline in Africa's lion populations.As part of a feature story in the January issue of…

This summer, AWF hosted an exclusive member safari to Uganda and Rwanda. There, the nine intrepid safari goers trekked through dense bamboo thickets to see mountain gorillas, spied chimpanzees in the rainforest, and snapped photos of tree…

Less famous than Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire nonetheless qualifies as one of the finest parks in Tanzania.Location: Eastern Tanzania, near Lake Manyara, in the Rift Valley.Size: About 1,000 square miles.Landscape:…

Sadly, we are once again faced with a poaching-related tragedy. This time, however, we are mourning the loss of two of Kenya Wildlife Service's (KWS) rangers who were killed on May 11, 2003 in a valiant effort to protect the wildlife of Tsavo East…

Medos Bokuwa Bolesa, a tracker since working with the Germans in the 1990s, and Isaac Lokili Lomboto, the youngest of all the trackers we trained, come face to face with the bonobos in this difficult season.This difficult season is marked by the…

Dear friends, I am a Mars scientist—not a wildlife activist. But I have been horrified to learn of the recent poaching of Satao, the beloved Kenyan elephant pictured here. He was poached for his ivory. The picture of his mutilated body is beyond…

The world has been thrust into a global health and economic crisis that will reverberate long after COVID-19 has passed. In the midst of all this, wildlife and the environment, often taking a back seat when economic policies are being discussed, are…

Composed primarily of savanna, lakes, swamps and flood plains, the Tarangire-Manyara Heartland includes Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks, the Marang Forest, a large area of the Masai Steppe and small urban areas. Much of the land outside…

Ok, I’ll write something then! When I first saw the leopard trapped in the cage, I didn’t believe my eyes. He looked calm and was just sitting there in the cage looking at me. I got so excited that I started running. If you asked me why I was…

Moses, M.O., Lekishon, K., Daniel, M., Fiesta, W., John, W.K., Noah, W.S., Hanori, M., Erastus, K., Hamza, K., Samwel, B. and Philip, M., 2015. The status of key large mammals in the Kenya-Tanzania borderland: A comparative analysis and conservation…

The following is an excerpt from "Habitat Loss: Wildlife's Silent Killer and the Central Role Protected Areas Play on Biodiversity Protection in Africa," a chapter written by AWF's Vice President of Conservation Strategy, Kathleen…

L'impact de la COVID-19 sur Les Opérations et Les Programmes Relatifs aux Aires Protégées en Afrique