The Lobito Corridor promises economic growth and connectivity for Central Africa, but risks enabling cross-border wildlife and forest crime. To mitigate this, representatives from the DRC and Angola ...

Biomonitoring is a core piece of AWF's approach to conservation. Across the landscapes where AWF works, the organization invests in strengthening biodiversity monitoring and open data sharing, helping ...

The Lobito Corridor is rapidly emerging as one of Africa's most significant engines of economic transformation. By strengthening connectivity between the Atlantic coast and the heart of Central Africa ...

Protecting Africa's wildlife doesn't end with an arrest; it depends on what happens next. As part of its work strengthening wildlife law enforcement systems across the continent, AWF works with ...

Across Africa, some of the continent's most critical conservation landscapes sit at the intersection of conflict. In transboundary areas especially, community grievances, governance gaps, and ...

The world’s most trafficked mammal may vanish before many people have ever heard of it. The pangolin, a shy and scaly animal, resembles an armadillo and is found in both Africa and Asia. All eight ...

In Rwanda’s conservation landscapes, the boundaries between people, wildlife, and nature are tightly interlinked. Around Volcanoes National Park (VNP), land pressures, climate variability, and ...

Mohamadou Ahmadou never imagined that River Faro, the gushing tributary of the Benue that his parents forbade him and his siblings from swimming in, would one day fill with sand and dry up in some ...

For decades, the African Wildlife Foundation has helped lay the foundation for mountain gorilla conservation in Rwanda—protecting this endangered species while catalyzing the growth of the country’s ...

Why the zebra has its stripes is a question biologists have been puzzling over more than a century now. Many theories have been proposed for the purpose of their iconic black and white stripes: ...