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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.

At the height of the driest months in northern Kenya, you can read a landscape by its sources of water. A watering hole that holds a little longer draws herders, wildlife, and daily life into the same narrow radius. When rivers and springs shrink,…

In Kenya, conservation is a cornerstone of the economy. Kenya is a country of diverse, rich habitat. The humid broadleaf forests along the coast of the Indian Ocean give way to lush grasslands and savannas. The Kenya Lake System of the…

Despite government efforts to improve natural resource management, Kenya is losing biodiversity and seeing an increase in unsustainable land use. We work with partners at all levels, from local to national, to advance biodiversity conservation and…

In Mwatate, Taita Taveta County, Kenya, prolonged droughts and environmental degradation are reshaping livelihoods. Reduced water access and declining soil moisture are some of the factors making farming increasingly uncertain for communities.For…

Update: Latest reports show the rhino horns seized in Mozambique have now gone missing. We will provide additional updates as we learn more.It’s not often these days that a wildlife-related news headline out of Mozambique reads positive.When one…

AWF first launched African Wildlife Capital (AWC) in 2011. In the nearly three years since, AWC has moved quickly and successfully to provide financing to a variety of small and midsize African companies—and, as a result, has been…

The population of the world’s tallest land mammal is shrinking. Over the last three decades, giraffe numbers have dropped 38 percent — from 157,000 in 1985 to an estimated 97,500 in 2015. This decline led the International Union for Conservation of…