AWF, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.
For more than 40 years, US-based AWF has focused exclusively on the continent of Africa. Through these years it has played a major role in ensuring the continued existence of some of Africa’s most rare and treasured species such as the elephant, the mountain gorilla, rhinoceros and cheetah. AWF has invested training and resources in African individuals and institutions that have gone on to play critical roles in conservation. We have significantly increased scientific understanding of Africa’s extraordinary ecosystems through research. We have pioneered the use of community conservation and conservation enterprise to demonstrate that wildlife can be conserved while people’s well-being is also improved. We have provided crucial assistance to national parks and reserves and promoted international cooperation to protect important sites and populations that stretch across national boundaries.
Major projects include: African Heartlands Program – inspired by the essential need to conserve Africa’s remaining vital ecosystems; Education and African Leadership Program – born from AWF’s conviction that Africans are the ideal stewards of Africa’s natural resources. Today over 80% of AWF’s staff are African professionals; Critical Species Research and Conservation Program – for four decades AWF has supported some of the most respected and important research projects on the continent embracing elephants, gorillas, rhinos and predators; and Conservation Enterprise – AWF’s strategically located Conservation Centers throughout Africa, staffed with specialists offering expertise in business planning, law and community development.
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