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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…

Headquarters AWF Conservation Centre Ngong Road, Karen P.O Box 310, 00502 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 711063000 Fax: +254 20 276 5030 africanwildlife@awf.org

The visit which was done in conjunction with the Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly pulled in a total of 10 MPs from wildlife related areas, plus the Minister for Natural Resources and Environment and the Minister for Lands and…

SAMBURU HEARTLAND, KENYA--The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) recently released a national strategy to conserve the Grevy's zebra, the largest of the three zebra subspecies. Once found across Eastern Africa, today the Grevy's zebra is found only in…