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Dear friends, I am a Mars scientist—not a wildlife activist. But I have been horrified to learn of the recent poaching of Satao, the beloved Kenyan elephant pictured here. He was poached for his ivory. The picture of his mutilated…

The world has been thrust into a global health and economic crisis that will reverberate long after COVID-19 has passed. In the midst of all this, wildlife and the environment, often taking a back seat when economic policies are being discussed, are…

Composed primarily of savanna, lakes, swamps and flood plains, the Tarangire-Manyara Heartland includes Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks, the Marang Forest, a large area of the Masai Steppe and small urban areas. Much of the land outside…

Ok, I’ll write something then! When I first saw the leopard trapped in the cage, I didn’t believe my eyes. He looked calm and was just sitting there in the cage looking at me. I got so excited that I started running. If you asked me why I was…

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…

The following is an excerpt from "Habitat Loss: Wildlife's Silent Killer and the Central Role Protected Areas Play on Biodiversity Protection in Africa," a chapter written by AWF's Vice President of Conservation…

L'impact de la COVID-19 sur Les Opérations et Les Programmes Relatifs aux Aires Protégées en Afrique

Impacts of COVID-19 on Africa's Protected Areas Operations and Programmes

In 2004, journalist and conservationist John Frederick Walker launched The Ivory Project to examine one of the most controversial issues in elephant conservation: the role of ivory. Among its initiatives are the publication of Walker's forthcoming…

To get to the town of Kondoa (located in the district of Kondoa) from Arusha, Tanzania, you drive almost 300 km down Rte. A104. Google Maps will tell you the drive takes three hours and 47 minutes, but Google Maps is wrong. The journey…

It’s as if the spirit of Papa Bosco Ikwa is with us! After a long period of searching fruitlessly for bonobos, out with our tracking team we have located a group of 13 individuals -- 4 males and 6 females carrying two juveniles and a baby. …

AWF Working Papers, 2006

AWF Conservation in Practice Papers. 2013

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