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In some parts of the world, you can visit a planetarium and go on an amazing immersive journey into the wonders of the night sky. In other parts of the world, you can visit a natural wildlife reserve and go on an incredible expedition into…

Published in the International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 24, No. 2, April 2003.

On April 17th, 2006 Mr. Emmanuel Muyengi, District Game Officer of Simanjiro District in northern Tanzania, was shot by poachers and died. Mr. Muyengi was leading a raid on elephant poachers in Simanjiro on April 16th. The poachers were reportedly…

The future of the bonobos and other species in the Congo Basin is looking brighter thanks to two milestones in conservation. Both the passing of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership Act and AWF's launch of its newest African Heartland in the Maringa…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is calling for qualified candidates to submit an application to join the 2015–2017 class of its Conservation Management Training Program (CMTP). The 24-month mentorship is an intensive, paid, on…

An invisible threat looms over the vast majority of Africa’s 8,600+ protected and conserved areas, besides habitat degradation and fragmentation, climate change, and biodiversity loss: a lack of resources.In 2020, COVID-19 laid bare the funding gaps…

Two of my Senegalese brothers and I pose for a photo in Mermoz before heading to the annual Fete de Mouton. Photo courtesy of Amy Rizzotto. Like many of my peers at the George Washington University, I was dedicated to the idea of…

Lakica Diana never dreamt that her passion for wildlife would translate into a career allowing her to protect some of Uganda's most vulnerable species. For the past nine years, she has lived in the Murchison Community Conservancy, near Uganda’s…

On the boundary of Faro National Park in northern Cameroon, communities face growing climate pressures. Prolonged dry seasons and increasingly intense floods have made farming unpredictable, threatening food security and household incomes. In…

The United Nations Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was the culmination of a four-year consultation and negotiation process between 196 countries. It is the roadmap for the world to halt and reverse biodiversity loss while supporting the…

For as long as he can remember, Papa Gambo has begun each morning the same way. He rises, stretches, faces east, and whispers a prayer, one that asks for protection for his wives, his children, and the world he lives in.It is a quiet act of…

Every morning, as the mist slowly lifts off the grass where the forest thins into farms outside Nnemeyong, Cameroon, Zamo Yves walks the paths he once knew for different reasons. He now counts seedlings, not traps. The same trees that he…

Growing up in the Amhara Region, North Shewa Zone, about 180 kilometers north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, Tibebu Yelemfrhat Simegn spent his childhood tending to his family’s livestock. As a young shepherd, he was responsible for protecting…

The Great Barrier Reef. Yellowstone. The Serengeti. World Heritage Sites are often household names, symbolic of the greatest wonders on Earth.For host countries, designation of a World Heritage Site within its borders brings with it not only…