It’s an uncharacteristically warm day high in the mountains on the Southern edge of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park here in Southern Uganda. At over 7,000 feet (2,300 meters), the chill during cloudless nights can have a bite, and foggy…
As I emerge from the scrubby undergrowth of the Park-to-farm transitional forest I am startled by Mama Christmas, and older female who has broken from the pack and is sitting stoically on top of a huge boulder overlooking the squawking birds and…
In my next life I'm going to be a gorilla tracker.
Yesterday, I joined a group of trackers as they entered Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda to locate and monitor a group of mountain gorillas. The trip began at sunrise. I picked up Damascene…
Southern Senegal. We are on the border with Guinea, in a gallery forest, tracking chimps. We hear a branch break in the distance and move in that direction.
I am in a full sweat. It is hot, humid in the forest of Dindefelo Reserve…
Following ‘April the Giraffe’ Sponsorship, Toy and Baby Products Retailer Teams Up with African Conservation Organization to Educate Schools in Tanzania, UgandaAfrican Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has announced today, on World Giraffe Day, a new…
At the start of 2014, I was traveling in Dead Vlei, Namibia. When I was in the same location a year earlier, I didn't see any jackals bothering tourists (admittedly, that could have been random luck).
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When African Wildlife Foundation designed its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization knew that focusing only on wildlife and wild lands would fall short of mitigating the ongoing crisis. Our decades of experience in conservation in…
A photo diary from Becky Walter, an AWF intern in the field. Click on any of the stunning images below to view it in full size.
"While in Botswana with Enterprise Officer Wilfred, we visited Ngoma Lodge. A new lodge, Ngoma is…
Litre, M., Ihwagi, F.W., Mayienda, R., Bernard, J. and Douglas-Hamilton, I., 2010. Total aerial count of elephants in Laikipia-Samburu ecosystem in November 2008. Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Kenya.
Large predators are returning to Soysambu conservancy after historical displacement by livestock ranching. This is thanks to the growing zebra and buffalo populations found there, allowing Soysambu to act as a critical dispersal area for lions from…
NAIROBI, KENYA (March 23, 2021) — One hundred youth from 23 countries in Africa have been recognized today as the top youth leaders in conservation in the continent. This is the first-ever Top 100 young African conservation leaders list, a…
News Advisory /// One hundred under-35 conservationists will be the recipients of the first-ever Top 100 Youth Conservation Award in 2021. The award is a collaboration between the Africa Alliance of the YMCA, World Scouts Movement, African Wildlife…
I heard the other day on the radio that an offender had been acquitted, and that his acquittal was blamed on a failure of the criminal justice system. This was not a wildlife case, but it caught my attention because I had never heard of an…
These days it is difficult to escape the buzz surrounding Netflix's "Tiger King" series that has captured the attention of millions of viewers, particularly in the United States. As a conservationist and Zimbabwean, it is even more challenging to…