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Spring 2016 African Wildlife News Special Supplement

Dogs in the Groove
Winning Photos from Africa
Leave a Legacy of Wildlife

In Central Africa, Predictive Modelling for Additional Intelligence
Investing in Zambezi Valley
AWF Appoints New President
Detection Dogs Increase Security

The Other Issues
Good News for Lions
Sensitizing Judges to Trafficking

Booted Up in Ethiopia
Back to School
Cecil's Legacy

Hope Ahead in Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking?
2 Approaches to Working with Pastoralists
AWF Urges Tanzanians to Protect Their Wildlife
Surveys in Asia Show Support for Ivory Ban

Roe, D., 2015. Conservation, crime and communities: case studies of efforts to engage local communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade. IIED, London. Fitzgerald, K and Muruthi, M. Chapter: The Greater Kilimanjaro Landscape, Kenya and Tanzania.

Okello, M.M., Kiringe, J.W., Warinwa, F., Muruthi, P., Kenana, L., Kanga, E., Ndambuki, S., Massawe, E., Kimutai, D., Mwita, M. and Maliti, H., 2015. Status and population trend of the common eland in the Kenya Tanzania borderland: 2010 and 2013 survey analysis.

A Watershed Event
Secretary Kerry Visit
A Poaching Deterrent
On the Right Path in Asia

Okello, M.M., Kenana, L., Maliti, H., Kiringe, J.W., Kanga, E., Warinwa, F., Bakari, S., Gichohi, N., Ndambuki, S., Kija, H. and Sitati, N., 2015. Population status and trend of water dependent grazers (buffalo and waterbuck) in the Kenya-Tanzania Borderland. Natural Resources, 6(02), p.91.

Okello, M.M., Kenana, L., Maliti, H., Kiringe, J.W., Kanga, E., Warinwa, F., Bakari, S., Ndambuki, S., Kija, H., Sitati, N. and Kimutai, D., 2015. “Population Status and Trend of the Maasai Giraffe in the Mid Kenya-Tanzania Borderland.” Natural Resources, 6(03), p.159.

Moses, M.O., Lekishon, K., Daniel, M., Fiesta, W., John, W.K., Noah, W.S., Hanori, M., Erastus, K., Hamza, K., Samwel, B. and Philip, M., 2015. The status of key large mammals in the Kenya-Tanzania borderland: A comparative analysis and conservation implications.

Maputla, N., Maruping, N., Chimimba, C. and Ferreira, S. (2015). Spatio-temporal separation between lions and leopards in the Kruger National Park and the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, South Africa. Global Ecology and Conservation. 82. 10.1016/j.gecco.2015.03.001.

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.

AWF Kickstarts Efforts in Remote Bili-Uele Protected Area Complex
Building Nature Tourism in Ethiopia
Technology, Training Improve Anti-Poaching and Ecological Monitoring in Central Africa
Continentwide Detection Dog Programme Launched

Seeing Success in Africa
Progress in Asia on Ivory Trade
More Than a Pretty Picture
From Conflict to Conservation

Kings of Africa No More?
A Diversity of Work for a Diverse Continent
The Great Ape Heist

A Clear Need for Urgent Action
In the Fight Against Bushmeat Trade
Ecological Survey in Tanzania Sets Stage for Climate Change Validation
Species Protection Across the Continent

Unnatural Selection
Are We Doing Enough
The Human Cost of Protecting Wildlife

Fall 2014 African Wildlife News Special Supplement

AWF Conservation in Practice Papers. 2014

Sitati, N., Gichohi, N., Lenaiyasa, P., Millanga, P., Maina, M., Warinwa, F., and Muruthi, P., 2014. Tree species diversity and dominance in Gelai Forest Reserve, Tanzania. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources. 3(3): 31-37.

Marnewick, K., Ferreira, S. M., Grange, S., Watermeyer, J., Maputla, N., & Davies-Mostert, H. T., 2014. Evaluating the status of and African wild dogs Lycaon pictus and cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus through tourist-based photographic surveys in the Kruger National Park.

Kormos, R., Kormos, C.F., Humle, T., Lanjouw, A., Rainer, H., Victurine, R., Mittermeier, R.A., Diallo, M.S., Rylands, A.B. and Williamson, E.A., 2014. Great apes and biodiversity offset projects in Africa: The case for national offset strategies. PLoS One, 9(11), p.e111671.

Fitzgerald, K.H., 2014. Using Innovative Land Conservation Tools in Africa to Protect Land, Enhance Resource Management and Improve Community Livelihoods. In 2014 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty. The World Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

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.

New Tools for Protecting Land, Wildlife, and Livelihoods
Collaboration is Critical
Household-Level Fish Ponds Offer Livelihood Alternatives

Closing the Technology Gap
Census as Strategy
Beyond Bonobos

AWF Conservation in Practice Papers. 2014

Fitzgerald, K.H., 2010. Securing forested land through carbon offset projects: Pilot projects from the African Wildlife Foundation in East Africa. AWF Working Papers. Nairobi: African Wildlife Foundation.

Fitzgerald, K.H., 2010. Land Tenure, Reform And Conservation Tools In South Africa and Their Potential Application In Kenya.

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.

Ogada, M. O., P. A. Aloo, and P. M. Muruthi. 2009. The African clawless otter Aonyx capensis (Schinz, 1821) and diet as an indicator of crayfish invasion dynamics in aquatic systems. Afr. J. Ecol. 47: 119-120.

Muoria, P.K., Muruthi, P., Low, B., Omondi, P., Mutua, C.M., Benard, J., Oguge, N.O., King, J., Sundaresan, S.R., Chege, G., Parker, G. 2009. Kenya launches national strategy to conserve Grevy’s zebra. Oryx 43: 271-272.

Kikoti, Alfred P. 2009. Seasonal home range sizes, transboundary movements and conservation of elephants in northern Tanzania. Open Access Dissertations. Paper 108. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Hitimana, J., Kiyiapi, O., Kisioh, H., Warinwa, F., Lenaiyasa, P., Mayienda, R. and Sumba, D., 2009. Participatory ecological assessment of Kirisia forest reserve, Samburu, Kenya. AWF Technical Paper Series.

Muoria, P.K., Muruthi, P., Lowe, B., Omondi, P., Mutua, C.M., Benard, J., Oguge, N.O., King, J., Sundaresan, S.R., Chege, G., Parker, G. 2009. Kenya launches national strategy to conserve Grevy’s zebra. Oryx 43: 271-272.

Published in South African Journal of Wildlife Research, 38(1): 52–58, April 2008.

Lowe, B., Muoria, P, Parker, G and Sundaresan S. 2008. Report on the National Survey of Grevy’s Zebra in Kenya. Grevy’s Zebra Technical Committee KWS, Nairobi

Dupain, J., Bwebwe, F., Elliott, J., Sebunya, K., Williams, D. and Nackoney, J., 2008. Case Study 2 - The Role of Alternative Livelihoods in Conservation: Lessons Learned from the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape. Landscape-Scale Conserved. Congo Basin, 147.

Published in Natural Resources Forum, No. 31, 2007.

Published in Pachyderm, No. 40, January-June 2006.

AWF Conservation in Practice Papers, 2005

Athanas, A. 2005. The role of business in biodiversity and impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 23(1), 29–35.

A Report for African Wildlife Foundation, May 2004.

Reid, R.S., Gachimbi, L.N., Worden, J., Wangui, E.E., Mathai, S., Mugatha, S.M., Campbell, D.J., Maitima, J.M., Butt, B., Gichohi, H. and Ogol, E., 2004. Linkages between changes in land use, biodiversity and land degradation in the Loitokitok area of Kenya. LUCID Working Paper.

Kissui, B., and Parker, C. 2004. Top-down population regulation of a top predator: lions in the Ngorongoro Crater. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271: 1550: 1867 – 1874.

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

Worden, J., Reid, R. S., Gichohi, H. (2003). Land-use impacts on large wildlife and livestock in the swamps of the greater Amboseli ecosystem, Kajiado District, Kenya. LUCID Project, International Livestock Research Institute. p. 100.

Metcalfe, S., 2003, September. Impacts of transboundary protected areas on local communities in three southern African initiatives. In workshop on transboundary protected areas in the governance Stream of the 5th World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa (Vol. 12, p. 13).

Kalpers, J., Williamson, E.A., Robbins, M.M., McNeilage, A., Nzamurambaho, A., Lola, N. and Mugiri, G., 2003. Gorillas in the crossfire: population dynamics of the Virunga Mountain gorillas over the past three decades. Oryx, 37(3), pp.326-337.

Gichohi, H.W., 2003, September. Direct payments as a mechanism for conserving important wildlife corridor links between Nairobi National Park and its wider ecosystem: The Wildlife Conservation Lease Program. In Vth World Parks Congress (pp. 1-8).

Campbell, D.J., Gichohi, H., Mwangi, A. and Smucker, T.A., 2003. An overview of land use issues in the communities of Loitokitok Division, Kajiado District, Kenya. LUCID Working Paper.

Omondi, P., Bitok, E., Mayienda, R. 2002. Decline of elephants and other wildlife in the Nasolot-South Turkana and Kerio Valley - Kamnarok Conservation areas, Kenya. Pachyderm. 33: Jul – Dec 2002.

Campbell, D.J., Gichohi, H., Reid, R.S., Mwangi, A., Chege, L. and Sawin, T., 2002. Competition and conflict between people and wildlife in SE Kajiado District, Kenya. LUCID Working Paper.

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

2001

Van der Linde, H., J. Oglethorpe, T. Sandwith, D. Snelson, and Y. Tessema (with contributions from Anada Tiéga and Thomas Price). 2001. Beyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Biodiversity Support Program.

Athanas, A., Vorhies, F., Ghersi, F., Shadie, P. and Shultis, J. (2001). Guidelines for Financing Protected Areas in East Asia. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. xii + 96pp.

Barrow, E., Gichohi, H., & Infield, M. (2000). Rhetoric or Reality? A Review of Community Conservation Policy and Practice in East Africa. Evaluating Eden Series, p.184. International Institute for Environment and Development, London, U.K.

Payne, K., Douglas-Hamilton, I., Moss, C. and Poole, J., 1999. Alarm raised over elephant ivory trade. Nature, 399(6734), pp.297-297.

Emerton, L., 1999. Community conservation research in Africa: principles and comparative practice. Global Environmental Change Programme. Paper, 9.

Emerton, L. 1999. Balancing the opportunity costs of wildlife conservation for communities around Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda. Report number: Evaluating Eden Discussion Paper Series No. 5. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London.