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At eleven years old, Mboyo Elombe already has a few loves. The first is a love for the natural wealth that her village holds. Her second is school. And her third is the Bonobo.For the past three years, Mboyo has been a member of the “Bonobo” Club,…

It’s hard to overstate the ecological value of the Congo Basin. The second-largest tropical rainforest in the world after the Amazon, the Basin is sometimes referred to as the world’s second lung for its ability to absorb…

The Virunga Massif is divvied up among three countries, and there is a place in the Massif where Rwandan farmland abuts a Congolese park. On any given day, there is conflict.But this conflict is not between people. It is between farmers and wildlife…

Kinshasa, June 20, 2025 – In response to the alarming rise in wildlife, timber, and natural resource trafficking across Central Africa, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), in close partnership with JUREC, Conserv Congo, OGF, the Congolese…

Wildlife poaching and trafficking is a well-organized transnational crime that has decimated iconic species such as elephants, rhinos, pangolins, great apes, and giraffes. This scourge has not spared the Democratic Republic of Congo, given the…

All communities living on the periphery of the Bili-Mbomu Protected Area Complex practice bushmeat hunting and agriculture as income-generating activities, a new survey by the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has shown. The survey shows a heavy…

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) held a two-day workshop in Buta, the provincial capital of Bas-Uélé, from June 8-9, 2023, to present and share the main achievements of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Community-Based…

Raymond Sango is a brave man who spends most of his time watering the land of Bili-Uere by the sweat of his brow. Since the age of 25, his main income-generating activity is agriculture. He grows cassava, bananas rice, soybeans, and peanuts, in a…