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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 studying abroad…

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…

Living near Volcanoes National Park, Mukarwego Agnes often had her crops raided by buffaloes and monkeys. She recalls how quickly conflicts could start. In those days, people would usually kill any buffalo or monkey they found.“Back then,…

In the heart of the Bili-Uéré landscape in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a quiet revolution is underway. It doesn’t involve megaphones or mass protests—just the steady footsteps of young conservationists like Christophe Diyadiya…

In Mwatate Sub-County, Kenya where households navigate farming with the pressures of a changing climate and limited income options, Hedlam Toli observed a troubling shift of young people turning to charcoal burning and bushmeat hunting in search of…

Frederick leads AWF’s engagements with government and multilateral institutions across Africa, China, and Europe in close collaboration with strategic partners. Through his leadership, his team supports African governments in international…

The following story was written by Singy Hanyona for the Environmental News Service (ENS)LUSAKA, Zambia, July 18, 2001 (ENS) - The African Wildlife Foundation has launched a new regional conservation project known as the "four corners natural…

KIGALI, RWANDA--African Wildlife Foundation has just learned that one mother gorilla and three infant mountain gorillas have died in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, home to an estimated 380 of the highly endangered great apes. The deaths were…