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In 2004, AWF established the Kilimanjaro Elephant Research & Conservation Camp to serve as the base station for studying elephants in the area along the Tanzania-Kenya border. This region is part of AWF's Kilimanjaro Heartland, a conservation…

Sunday January 11th – Tuesday January 13th: The last days After Saturday the collared leopard moved 10 km south towards Satara and rested near a culvert, he probably used the road for protection from other carnivores as he was heavily compromised…

In this Heartland, on the vast expanses of the Laikipia plateau in north central Kenya, a great diversity of wildlife thrive in the semidesert conditions. The pastoral Samburu people herd their goats, sheep, cattle and camels in the shadow of Mt…

The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille is a lodge so incredible that it can easily overshadow everything else. But after my visit to the lodge, I passed by a small project that really grabbed my attention: The Kuku Project by the women of Nkiloriti. When…

AWF Working Papers, 2007

The tides are turning in the war against the ivory trade. In the past several months, China, Hong Kong, and the U.K. have all implemented or announced bans on domestic ivory trade — long overdue measures to help stop the slaughter of elephants…

AWF Discussion Papers, CEC-DP-5. 1998.

KIGALI, RWANDA (APRIL 20, 2021) — The Government of Rwanda will in March 2022 host the inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss the conservation of the continent’s protected areas. This comes after the relaunch of APAC in…

A White Paper prepared by the African Wildlife Foundation, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme and EcoAdapt and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2010.

Belfore, N., Gray, M., Masinde, I., Elliot, E., and Muruthi, P. 2010. The Implications of Global Climate Change for Mountain Gorilla Conservation in the Albertine Rift. A White Paper submitted to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Belfiore, N., Seimon, A., Picton Phillips, G., Basabose, A., Gray, M., Masinde, I., Elliott, J., Thorne, J.H., Seo, C.W. and Muruthi, P., 2015. The implications of global climate change for Mountain Gorilla Conservation. https://escholarship.org/uc…

Wildlife Enterprise for Local Development (WELD) Project. 2001.

Wildlife Enterprise for Local Development (WELD) Project. 2001.

Wildlife Enterprise for Local Development (WELD) Project. 2001.

Nowadays, there is a growing consensus in the scientific community that climate change is occurring and is one of many possible causes of biodiversity loss. Changes in climate can impact biodiversity either directly or indirectly through many…