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Swaziland pastoralists known as Shewula are breaking with tradition by giving over 3,000 hectares of land used for grazing cattle to a large new game reserve. In return, donors are providing funds to build tourism facilities on the land and to train…

In recognizing the need for genuine partnerships to ensure that sustainable tourism development is in harmony with and compliments conservation of the environment, wildlife and wild lands and the utilization of the natural resources in a modernizing…

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) took part in the sixth African Leadership Forum held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania from August 28-30, 2019. The forum was hosted by the Office of the Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E…

Natural resources abound in Southern Tanzania’s Mngeta Corridor and Udzungwa-Magombera-Selous landscapes, located within the Kilombero Cluster. With a stretch of mountains that harbors major water catchments for many rivers, a dense forest cover…

For generations, hunter-gatherers have used the trees and plants in Cameroon’s dense tropical forests to sustain their community. Like many indigenous people around the world, their relationship with these biodiversity-rich forests is not…

Florence Louma is a happy woman. During the last cocoa harvest in early 2019, she made a profit of over USD $1,700, making her the top-earning female cocoa farmer in Kagnnole village, Somalomo, at the border of Dja Faunal Reserve in south-eastern…

In the lush Campo Ma'an region of Southern Cameroon, amidst flourishing cocoa trees, Francine Abessolo, a mother of three, is witnessing a remarkable transformation. This positive shift is a direct result of the recent surge in global cocoa prices…

 Campo Ma’an National Park (CMNP) lies 75 kilometers from Kribi, an up-and-coming industrial center and home to the Kribi Deepwater Port, the principal seaport for the region. Recent developments in the last 20 years also include the Chad…

Wildlife authorities and conservation partners have held a series of emergency meetings to address last week's shooting of four endangered mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Two suspects have been…

I've been in Nyeri for a few days now, and I haven't had a single cup of coffee! I came here expecting to be permanently buzzing from a steady regime of coffee drinking. But nope, not one cup. It gets stranger: most of the farmers have never even…

Adapted from the Daily NationIn the Samburu Game Reserve in Kenya, a lioness recently struck up friendship with an oryx calf in a spectacle that puzzled everyone including wildlife experts.In a radical departure from its instincts, the full-grown…

Our vision is of an Africa where sustainable development includes thriving wildlife and wild lands as a cultural and economic asset for Africa’s future generations.Africa is at a tipping point that will determine the world’s future.By 2050, one in…

AWF in Action Informing Priority LandscapesAWF has applied spatial modeling to systematically consider a range of factors in order to identify 42 conservation landscapes across sub-Saharan Africa where conservation investment can have the most…