(KIGALI, RWANDA — July 18, 2022) The IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) — the first-ever Pan-African gathering of leaders, citizens, and interest groups focused on protected areas — begins today in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, with an…
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) brings several multilateral funds under one roof. They work together to tackle the planet’s most urgent environmental challenges. Since 1991, the GEF has invested billions in Africa to protect biodiversity,…
African Wildlife Foundation maintains its high Charity Navigator ratings and Candid accreditation for executing our mission in a fiscally responsible way. The following documents show how we leverage our funding to deliver programmatic results in…
In 1900, cheetahs thrived across Africa and parts of Asia. Today, that picture is vastly different. Africa’s cheetahs occupy a thin slice of their former habitat and number only 6,674. This vulnerable big cat has lost 89 percent of its historic…
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The Faro landscape in Cameroon includes Faro National Park. The landscape is home to diverse wildlife, including elephants and the largest hippo population in Central and West Africa. Maintaining its rich biodiversity requires a holistic response to…
Africa is thought to be the most vulnerable continent to climate change given its predominately climate-dependent livelihoods, extensive water-stressed populations, and low adaptive capacity. Weak economies, institutions, and governance structures…
The African Wildlife Foundation will miss an exemplary leader and an incredible friend. Africa will miss an inspirational Democrat and a peacemaker. Former President of the Republic of Botswana Sir Ketumile Masire's loss will also be felt in places…
By R. Michael Wright, President, AWFDust billows in through the open top of the battered Land Rover as we slowly squeeze between two gnarled acacia thorn trees. We drive for hours through an empty landscape, searching for signs of the pack of wild…
PLOS ONE study with largest dataset on forest elephants ever compiled reveals a loss of more than 60 percent in the past decade.
NEW YORK, March 4, 2013 -- African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published…
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction.The results reveal 21 percent of all known mammals, 30 percent of all known amphibians, 12…
NAIROBI, KENYA, as reported by Ochieng' Ogodo for National Geographic News--A new rock quarry being excavated with explosives in Kenya's Amboseli National Park may endanger migration corridors of elephants and other wildlife, conservationists say…
Elliott, J., Gibbons, H., King, D., King, A. and Leménager, T. (2014). Exploring Environmental Complementarity between Types of Protected Areas in Kenya. Focales 19, Agence Française Développement, Paris.