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World Ranger Day: AWF Honors the Heroes Conserving Africa’s Wildlife and Wild Lands

July 31, 2024
On this World Ranger Day, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) celebrates rangers and community scouts, who protect Africa’s wildlife and wildlands. Communities living near protected and conserved areas rely on these men and women to not only…

Why Plastic? Africa’s Contribution to the Global Plastic Policymaking Processes

November 14, 2023
As a Charles R Wall Young African Policy Fellow and a Marine Biologist, I am deeply committed to addressing plastic pollution. The upcoming third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) is not just an event on the calendar but…

What does success for Africa look like at COP15?

December 6, 2022
According to an OECD study, the average abundance of species population has declined by 44% globally since 1970. Recent expert research has assessed the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities, finding that our…

Waterbuck

February 22, 2013

Warthog

February 27, 2013

Vervet Monkey

February 22, 2013

Using Cyber Tracking Technology to Outsmart Poachers

October 18, 2013
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…

Unacceptable Losses

February 1, 2012
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,…

Transforming Lives Through Water: A New Hope for Faro National Park

March 19, 2025
 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…

Topi

February 22, 2013

This economist upholds people-centered conservation in Africa

July 7, 2023
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…

The Africa Forum Berlin: Reframing Conservation for a Sustainable Future

September 12, 2024
Amid escalating biodiversity loss and the looming threat of climate change, Africa plays a crucial role in shaping the planet's future. The continent's abundant natural resources, which fuel global demand for energy, food, and raw materials,…

The ABC’s of Elephant DNA

March 4, 2014
My previous blogs have brought up how difficult forest elephants are to see, and therefore study. Much of the research on forest elephants has actually been on their dung to obtain information about the elephant.Forest elephants defecate roughly 17…

Tackling conservation threats to Cameroon’s biodiversity

January 25, 2018
A vital home for critically endangered great apes, the Dja Faunal Reserve benefits from a community-centered conservation strategy as development stems an upswing in human activity around the protected area and buffer zones.Apart from the critically…

Sustainable forest enterprises advance women’s entrepreneurship in Cameroon

June 12, 2019
For generations, hunter-gatherers have used the trees and plants in Cameroon’s dense tropical forests to sustain their community. Like many indigenous people around the world, their relationship with these biodiversity-rich forests is not…

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