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This article is written by a fellow from African Wildlife Foundation’s Charles R. Wall Leadership program following practical training sessions in Nairobi, Kenya to build leadership and conservation management skills. The first time I saw the…

As AWF Trustee Myma Belo-Osagie wrote in her International Women’s Day blog post at the beginning of the month, women in Africa must step up and engage in conservation on the continent. Without their involvement on today’s most pressing matters…

African Wildlife Foundation Wins Prestigious Africa Sustainable Futures Award from the Financial Times and the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)AWF takes top spot in the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Protection…

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The African Wildlife Foundation has been awarded a major grant from USAID Regional Center for Southern Africa (RCSA) to lead a conservation initiative across national borders.The Four Corners Project represents unusual potential for transboundary…

Even as it urges the U.S. government and lion range countries to do more to protect the African lion, African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) welcomes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS’s) proposal to list Africa’s largest…

Japanese giant Internet retailer, Rakuten, on July 6, 2017, announced that it was banning the sale of ivory on its site with trading to be phased out over the next month. The move, which came following mounting international criticism of the…

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is pleased to announce the birth of two baby white rhinos in Mosi-Oa-Tunya Park in Zambia. Just over a year ago, AWF helped wildlife authorities settle four new white rhinos in the park after all but one of…

On August 2, 2022, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) CEO Kaddu Sebunya kicked off his Uganda visit in Kampala. This week-long visit entailed meeting the former Prime Minister of Uganda, Rt. Honorable Amama Mbabazi, Senior Counsel, Ministry…

WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NAIROBI, KENYA (September 28, 2020) – The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has been closely monitoring the difficult situation for safari operators in Africa since the outset of the pandemic when travel bans and government…

On Monday, China’s State Council released a statement declaring that rhino and tiger parts from farmed animals can now be used "in medical research and healing" in "qualified hospitals by qualified doctors," which reverses a 1993 ban that was…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) welcomes the recent agreement between Kenya's leaders to resolve the political crisis that broke out after closely contested national elections late last year. Under the agreement, President Mwai Kibaki and…

At a time when African elephants are facing extraordinary threats to their survival, AWF is urging governments that currently allow sport hunting of elephants to suspend such activities, and to enact a moratorium on elephant trophy hunting. …

Parties at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, have endorsed the closure of all domestic ivory markets worldwide. "The decision taken at CITES to adopt a resolution calling…

A new initiative involving 20 of the world’s leading conservation organizations today issued an unprecedented joint declaration to the G20 calling for urgent action to invest in nature to protect biodiversity and reduce the risk of future pandemics…