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Celebrating the power of film to inspire, Nat Geo WILD announced today, in partnership with the Sun Valley Film Festival and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), that three finalists have been chosen for the first annual WILD to INSPIRE Short Film…

Nat Geo WILD, in partnership with the Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), announced today the four finalists of the second annual WILD TO INSPIRE filmmaking competition.The finalists will all travel to the Sun…

What's the fuss about wild dogs? Well, it is quite a big deal. Wild dogs are endangered, almost disappearing from Tanzania's northern parks. It is easier to find a leopard, cheetah and lion on the same day than a wild dog. These …

Humanity’s remarkable ability to self-destruct is one of the most inexplicable yet enduring paradoxes of life. We are perhaps the only species endowed with the capacity to understand nature yet so desperately poor at managing it. A recent study by…

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature recently reclassified the two African subspecies of elephants separately, putting the savanna elephants in the endangered category and forest elephants in the critically endangered category…

The importance of biodiversity to development and human wellbeing can never be overemphasized. Recognizing the unprecedented loss of biodiversity over the last decades and the need to halt and reverse such loss, countries all over the world…

Lemein Par is the only raptor biologist in Kenya’s Maasai Mara landscape. The film “Saving the Vultures: One Man’s Quest” shows his tireless efforts to conserve a disregarded, but threatened African wildlife species. Likewise, “Chasing the Golden…

While poaching often receives more attention in the news, habitat destruction represents a more serious, persistent threat to wildlife. Species from elephants to egrets need adequate space and healthy land to thrive. Habitat destruction is a…

The Miombo Woodlands, a vast expanse of vegetation stretching across Southern Africa, represent a hidden lifeline for over 300 million people. This broad belt, running from Angola in the west to Tanzania in the east, is not merely a source of…

As a Charles R Wall Young African Policy Fellow and a Marine Biologist, I am deeply committed to addressing plastic pollution. The upcoming third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) is not just an event on the calendar but…

More than ever, it is apparent that the additional significant problems the world is facing are intertwined with climate change, which both fuels them and is crucial to our efforts to address them.The effects of our behavior as a species can clearly…

Across Africa’s stunning landscapes, human activity and resource extraction have led to an unprecedented biodiversity loss. This degradation has affected communities dependent on these resources for their livelihoods, endangering entire ecosystems…

In February, the Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report reminded us that the world is faced with two interlinked crises: climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. Between the two,…

​ The “butterfly effect”—the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can set in motion a series of events that result in massive change halfway around the world—is a pretty apt way to describe our increasingly…

More than 40 years have passed since the Convention on International Trades in Endangered Species (CITES) became law. Today, 181 countries and international bodies are treaty members, but despite a worldwide commitment to end poaching of…