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Springing from Dja Faunal Reserve’s dense rainforest, Bouamir is one of the largest and most iconic outcrops in this 5,260 sq. kilometer protected area in southern Cameroon. It is also home to the landscape’s great apes, so when a baby chimpanzee…

Tucked into Uganda’s northernmost boundary with Kenya and South Sudan, the Kidepo landscape has more than 30 protected and conserved areas, including three national parks. At approximately 136,000 square kilometers, it is one of the region’s most…

From February 19-21, 2022, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) received a delegation from the German Development Bank, KfW, in the Campo-Ma’an landscape in Cameroon. Led by Schlegel Bianca, in charge of Governance, Biodiversity and Health for…

On Wednesday, May 22nd, the International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF), in partnership with the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Conservation International, the Nature Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), hosted His Excellency Dr…

A Kenyan lioness which perplexed wildlife experts last month by adopting a newborn Beisa oryx at Samburu National Park astonished them again on Valentine's Day by taking on another. When the lioness adopted her first calf last month, animal…

Seven-year-old Elizabeth Wathuti planted her first tree in her hometown of Nyeri, Kenya and launched her journey in conservation. In 2016, she received the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Award and attained a degree in environmental studies and…

African Wildlife Foundation calls attention to the seriousness of poaching as high quantity of ammunition is seized during anti-poaching operations NAIROBI, Kenya, December 21, 2012 -- Over the past several years the crimes against…

Court hands down harshest sentence yet to ivory smuggler On Tuesday, a Kenyan court ordered Tang Yong Jian, a convicted ivory smuggler from China, to pay a fine of Ksh 20 million, approximately US$233,000, or serve seven years in prison. …

It is early evening at Taita Ranch, which lies adjacent to Kenya’s biggest national park, the Tsavo. We drive slowly along the bumpy roads in the 98,000-acre conservancy, stopping to peer into bushes, alert for any signs of movement. We are looking…

Khayale, C., Omondi, P., Kariuki, L., Muruthi, P., Gichohi, N., Stejskal, J., Mulama, M., Okita-Ouma, B., Gaymer, J., Chege, G. and Amin, R. 2021. Kenya’s first White Rhino Conservation and Management Action Plan. Pachyderm, 62, pp. 112-118.

AWF continues its land lease initiatives and secures more than 7,000 acres allowing elephants save haven to roam NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7, 2013 – Elephants and other wildlife are getting more room to roam this month, as the African Wildlife…

International bans on the ivory trade and efforts to control poaching have helped Kenya's elephant population rebound, wildlife authorities say. In the Tsavo/Mkomazi area --- a conservancy in the larger Tsavo area in southern Kenya -- the elephant…

KILIMANJARO HEARTLAND--Kenyan and Tanzanian wildlife authorities have released results of the first joint aerial cross-border wildlife census conducted in the Greater Amboseli-West Kilimanjaro/Magadi-Natron landscapes. The African Wildlife…