Despite severe space and demographic pressures, Rwanda’s gorilla population has doubled since the 1970s. Through a ...

In Rwanda's misty forests, the growing 22-member Isimbi mountain gorilla family thrives through companionship and care. While ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biomonitoring is a core piece of AWF's approach to conservation. Across the landscapes where AWF works, the organization ...

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) today officially handed over 27 hectares of restored land to the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) for inclusion in Volcanoes National Park. This significant ...

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 ...

As the only great ape species experiencing a population rise, the mountain gorilla’s recovery is an undeniable conservation success story. But the unprecedented growth poses a challenge for its ...

The Bagyeli, one of Cameroon's oldest Indigenous groups, have a deep-rooted connection to the forests of the Southern Region. Known as the "guardians of the forest" due to their intimate knowledge of ...

Decades of poaching and overhunting of large tusked elephants may be leading to generations of elephants with smaller tusks—or no tusks at all When Mountain Bull and Satao—two of Kenya’s oldest 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 ...