Ramping Up Anti-Poaching and Wildlife Law Enforcement

We help keep eyes on the forest, assisting with ranger recruitment and training while providing financial and technical support for patrols. In Bili-Uele, we helped the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (which acts as the country’s wildlife authority) create a rapid-response anti-poaching team of 42 eco-guards.

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Eco guard closing ceremony

Reducing Unsustainable Agriculture Practices in Bili-Uele

Slash-and-burn agriculture is one of the greatest threats facing this landscape. Starting in 2021, we began a program to sensitize local communities to the benefits of farming sustainability. Farmers are reporting higher yields and a better understanding of why protecting biodiversity is important to their everyday lives.

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Democratic republic of congo farm

Applying GIS Technology for Conservation Decision-Making

Fragmentation and other threats to bonobo popul­ations—forest conversion to agriculture and roads, as well as human encroachment into forests—can be mapped using long-term satellite imagery. Integrated with detailed information from ground surveys, the spatial data acquired enables us to create models that predict and track pressures on the land such as hunting activity.

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Bonobo
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41,000 Number of hectares protected and/or with improved conservation status due to AWF interventions beginning in 2016

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13,979 Number of people benefiting from AWF's conservation efforts

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3 of 3 Wildlife populations supported by AWF that are stable/increasing