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Attacks on park staff, rangers, and scouts are always deeply disturbing to me.  These true friends of wildlife and champions of conservation are on the frontlines securing parks, guarding wildlife, and protecting people living around…

 2025 was a year of transition for conservation in Africa. Global financing patterns shifted, national development priorities evolved, and countries continued to navigate the complex balance between economic growth and biodiversity stewardship…

Bili-Uélé, a protected area complex spanning over 78,000 square kilometers and hosting significant populations of Eastern chimpanzees and forest elephants, makes up part of the Congo Basin Rainforest. Because of this, it remains critical for…

In the remote Bili-Uélé landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the challenges of conservation go far beyond protecting wildlife. The region’s fragile infrastructure—especially its dilapidated roads and bridges—makes it nearly…

In Ilima, a remote village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Maringa-Lopori-Wamba landscape, life is shaped by farming, fishing, and the forest that surrounds the community. Many children aspire to become nurses in a region where medical…

Perusi Florence and her brother Tuyambaze will start the year 2012 with a burden relieved. They will no longer walk an hour to fetch water every morning. They will no longer have to pay 2,000 Uganda Shillings (the currency of choice in this area of…

When we checked in on progress of the Bwindi census in September, we met Harriet Kyakyo, a volunteer with the Uganda Wildlife Authority and the only woman participating in the census as a team member. She ended up spending a total of 4 weeks in…

AWF’s Andrea Athanas is currently attending the 39th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee Meeting in Bonn, Germany. Everyone in the chamber stood and the room fell silent—you could have heard a pin drop.  …

The animal world has been my passion since childhood. Conservation of nature, specifically the protection of species, has since become my career. For five years, I worked in the Lomako–Yokokala Faunal Reserve in western Democratic…

Antoine Tabu, African Wildlife Foundation's DRC Country Coordinator, explains why he believes that the promotion of local communities' well-being is crucial to the success of sustainable tourism in DRC. "We can do everything in the field of…

The Congo Basin features the world’s second-largest rainforest and is home to endemic and biologically diverse flora and fauna. Amidst this immense natural wealth are millions of people who are integral to these biodiverse ecosystems and depend on…