In Rwanda's misty forests, the growing 22-member Isimbi mountain gorilla family thrives through companionship and care. While mothers forage, patient silverback Muturengere protects and guides the ...

AWF Fellow Djai Pascal authored Agwakwe West Ne'elemen ("our lost heritage") to address the black rhino’s disappearance from Cameroon. Combining research with community voices, the book aims to ...

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 ...

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 ...

11,400 Bamboo Seedlings Grown in the Aberdare Region of Kenya Delivered to Greenhouses in Kigali, Courtesy of African Wildlife Foundation KIGALI, RWANDA and NAIROBI, KENYA – African Wildlife ...

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, ...

GABORONE, Botswana — The African Wildlife Foundation mourns the passing of H.E. Festus Gontebanye Mogae, former President of Botswana and a cherished member of AWF's Global Board of Trustees.

The giraffe is now vulnerable to extinction, according to the latest update to IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. The update moves the giraffe from its previous designation of “least concern” to ...

To collar a lion, you first have to find it. And anyone who has gone on safari will tell you that you could drive around a park for an entire week and see every species except this highly elusive big ...

Twice a year, when the rains come, thousands of wildebeest in northern Tanzania begin their migration, spreading out from Lake Manyara and the Tarangire River to the plains, where fresh forage and ...

The rebound of the world's precious mountain gorilla population from only a few hundred at the lowest point to over 1,000 today is one of conservation's most celebrated victories and a testament to ...