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I’m just recently back in Lomie (on the border of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon) from two days of practical training for rangers on the use of the CyberTracker/Trimble for ecological monitoring and anti-poaching. Instead of…

39 Elephants Poached. Cameroon. We are in northern Cameroon, Boubba’ndjidda, National Park to be exact. We are close to the border of Chad. Boubba’ndjidda connects to Sena Oura National Park. We are on a scoping mission,…

 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…

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…

Chance Conservationists is a series highlighting AWF staff who have embraced people-centered conservation in their professions despite coming from diverse academic fields. These remarkable individuals now espouse conservation values to propel the…

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I am investigating the social and economic impacts of Ngoma Safari Lodge—one of AWF’s Conservation Lodges located adjacent to Chobe National Park in Botswana on local communities. The lodge was set up with the…