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Michael Gallagher, a student, writes for us in this post... My name is Michael Gallagher, and I helped Nakedi put down camera traps around the Shangoni area recently. I had been in the bush before but always in very controlled areas...usually with…

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The African Wildlife Foundation's Heartland Program wins the 2007 Drivers of Change AwardIn Africa it is sometimes difficult to balance conservation and development adequately. But a conservation program -- described as innovative and science-based…

In some cases, the biggest barrier to conservation is the most mundane: a lack of resources to get the job done. We collaborate with government partners, local leaders, and wildlife authorities to provide training, basic equipment, technology, and…

Wildlife Judicial and Prosecutorial Assistance Training Series (Tanzania).

On Tuesday, law enforcement officials, wildlife protection managers, prosecutors, judges and magistrates from Ethiopia will participate in a Wildlife Criminal Justice Assistance training in Addis Ababa. Hosted by African Wildlife…

Compared to Africa’s other great apes, the bonobo has been relatively less studied. Its geographic range stretches 500,000 square kilometers across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s remotest tropical forests — difficult-to-reach areas with a…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) have rolled out the first African regional training workshop to enhance the operational effectiveness of GEF Operational Focal Points (OFPs) across 23 African countries…

Driven by international poaching syndicates as well as local bush meat hunters, the illegal killing, trading, and trafficking of wildlife and wildlife products keep African species at risk. Learn from Didi Wamukoya, African Wildlife Foundation’s…

Five of Kevin Dooley’s photographs were highly honored at the Benjamin Mkapa Wildlife Photography Awards, in addition to his winning image. His stunning black-and-white composition of a baby African savanna elephant clambering amidst the mud and…

Link to: https://www.independent.co.uk/stop-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/wildlife-trade-campaign-study-elephants-b1790797.html

The illegal trafficking of protected African wildlife species can take various gory forms across the continent. Wildlife management authorities and investigators often discover concealed elephant tusks still dripping with blood or even pieces of…

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA--Approximately 119 tons of stockpiled ivory from more than 10,000 elephants will be auctioned from four southern African nations starting in late October. The sale is the first to be sanctioned in nearly a decade.Japan,…

Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group survey documenting land tenure status, socio-economic and biodiversity profiles in two Southern Tanzania landscapes. 2017.