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AWF Conservation in Practice Papers. 2014

Gorilla survival greatly depends on the well-being of the people who live adjacent to the parks in which mountain gorillas live. Virunga Artisan products are the handiwork of the people in villages across the Virunga/Bwindi highlands of Central…

Wildlife doesn’t recognize human boundaries. While protected areas play a critical role as anchors of conservation, wildlife survival in fact requires larger ecosystems made up of a patchwork of lands owned and managed by governments, the private…

Though they live next to Tanzania’s largest national park, residents in the villages surrounding Ruaha National Park see no benefits from the presence of wildlife, particularly carnivores. And there are plenty of carnivores…

The Eastern Gorilla also known as Grauer’s Gorilla – the largest living primate – has been listed as Critically Endangered, according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ released on 5 September…

Lions, eradicated from Lake Mburo National Park in southwestern Uganda some 20 years ago, may be returning.About half a dozen sightings have been made in recent years, reports Mark Infield, AWF's technical adviser to the Uganda Wildlife Authority…

As CITES CoP17 closes in Johannesburg, South Africa, the African Wildlife Foundation applauds the parties for their votes in accordance with our recommendations in all but one instance – the African lion. Last night, the 182…

Two lions were speared to death in the Maasai Steppe Heartland, and two others escaped but were badly injured. Bernard Kissui, AWF's lion researcher in this part of northern Tanzania, reports: "While on our routine lion tracking activities in the…

The air is electric with anticipation. Dozens of eyes fix intensely on a single target. The crowd hushes. Suddenly, a pack of African wild dogs charge forth from their den, barking and yelping as they begin feasting on the meal laid before them…

Large predators are returning to Kenya’s Soysambu Conservancy after historical displacement by livestock ranching. This is thanks to the growing zebra and buffalo populations found in Soysambu, allowing it to act as a critical dispersal area for…

Bomas are traditional wooden or thorn-bush/wire mesh enclosures designed to keep cattle in and predators out. With help from African Wildlife Foundation, Tanzanian Maasai pastoralists living around Manyara Ranch have benefited from an upgrade:…