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In this Heartland, on the vast expanses of the Laikipia plateau in north central Kenya, a great diversity of wildlife thrive in the semidesert conditions. The pastoral Samburu people herd their goats, sheep, cattle and camels in the shadow of Mt…

The Sanctuary at Ol Lentille is a lodge so incredible that it can easily overshadow everything else. But after my visit to the lodge, I passed by a small project that really grabbed my attention: The Kuku Project by the women of Nkiloriti. When…

AWF Working Papers, 2007

The tides are turning in the war against the ivory trade. In the past several months, China, Hong Kong, and the U.K. have all implemented or announced bans on domestic ivory trade — long overdue measures to help stop the slaughter of elephants…

AWF Discussion Papers, CEC-DP-5. 1998.

KIGALI, RWANDA (APRIL 20, 2021) — The Government of Rwanda will in March 2022 host the inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss the conservation of the continent’s protected areas. This comes after the relaunch of APAC in…

A White Paper prepared by the African Wildlife Foundation, the International Gorilla Conservation Programme and EcoAdapt and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2010.

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.

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. https://escholarship.org/uc…

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

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

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

Nowadays, there is a growing consensus in the scientific community that climate change is occurring and is one of many possible causes of biodiversity loss. Changes in climate can impact biodiversity either directly or indirectly through many…

I found a donga (the bank of a gully) along the way, which I jumped over and stood on the other side. I was confident that even if this were a super athletic hippo, the Michael Jordan of hippos, it would take him a month to jump across that part of…

Much of this Heartland embraces mountainous rain forests and beautiful crater lakes in the adjoining countries of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. The region has been caught up in recent years in human battles that have not only…