real places

real impact

[ A NNUAL R EPORT 2002 ] This 2002 annual report marks a change in the African Wildlife Foundation’s financial reporting period. Future AWF annual reports will cover programs, activities, funding and financial overviews for the organization’s fiscal year, July 1 to June 30.

From the Chair ...... 2 From the President ...... 3 A Commitment to Africa ...... 4 Conservation Targets by Heartland ...... 6 Map of African Heartlands and Conservation Centers ...... 7 Conserving Species and Landscapes ...... 8 Investing in Strategies ...... 12 Fostering Partnerships and Alliances ...... 13 Using Parks as Anchors ...... 15 Supporting Species Research and Protection ...... 16 Brokering Community and Private-Sector Partnerships . . 19 Protecting Wildlife Corridors and Migratory Paths ...... 22 Building Capacity ...... 24 “Taking It Regional” ...... 26 Public Education and Outreach ...... 30 Membership Programs ...... 32 Funding and Financial Overview ...... 34 Thank You for Your Support: AWF Contributors ...... 38 How You Can Help AWF Protect Africa’s Wildlife ...... 39 People Behind the Programs ...... Inside back cover

Kilimanjaro Heartland our mission

The African Wildlife Foundation recognizes that the wildlife and wild lands of Africa have no equal. We work with people—our supporters worldwide and our partners in Africa—to craft and deliver creative solutions for the long-term well-being of Africa’s remarkable species, their habitats and the people who depend on them. our vision

The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure that the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.

1 FROM THE CHAIR

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. When one educate and train African individuals steps down from a position of responsi- and organizations to be their conti- bility with an organization, it’s custom- nent’s conservation leaders. ary to reflect back over the past—the None of this would be possible achievements, the milestones, the without the dedication of our talented memories. But as I relinquish the and industrious staff in Africa and in chairmanship of the African Wildlife Washington, D.C., and the generosity Foundation Board of Trustees, a post of the many individuals, corporations, I have held for the past six years, I foundations, governments and others think it is more appropriate to look to who share our vision and fund AWF’s the future. work. I particularly wish to acknowl- That’s because I believe that, even edge the many contributions of my despite AWF’s illustrious 40-year history fellow trustees, whose insights have and impressive record of conservation accomplish- been invaluable in guiding our endeavors. ments, this organization’s best days are still ahead. Although my term as chair is concluding, my When we launched the African Heartlands enthusiasm and support for AWF’s commitment to initiative in 1998, we knew this bold, visionary plan Africa will continue. I step down knowing that I’ve was almost audacious in its scope and ambition: been privileged to serve an organization that will Imagine designating vast swaths of African land- leave its mark on the conservation of Africa’s wildlife scapes and then declaring that you intend to make and wild lands for generations. That’s a legacy we a measurable difference in saving these lands for all can be proud of. future generations—conserving wildlife and helping local people, too. Well, it is happening. Having established AWF’s Heartlands conservation planning process, the work of conserving selected targets—species and environments—by implementing tested strategies S TUART T. S AUNDERS, JR . is underway. And we are seeing measurable results. The first step, of course, is working with the people and countries of Africa to select large, wildlife-rich landscapes as priority areas for protect- ing wildlife. We expect this will be an ongoing process; to date, AWF has designated and is working in seven Heartlands. Next, we are working to ensure the survival of Africa’s most magnificent species, those that play a crucial role in the ecology and the econo- my. The third activity is to demonstrate to rural communities that wildlife conservation is in their best interest, as we encourage their efforts to run profitable, wildlife-related businesses. Finally, and true to AWF’s tradition, we are continuing to

2 FROM THE PRESIDENT

REAL PLACES, REAL IMPACT. previously occurred. We intend to Imagine a world without Serengeti, help other national parks and game which hosts the planet’s largest con- reserves in the Heartlands with their centration of migratory game animals infrastructure, equipment and training … a world where you couldn’t dream so that they can more effectively of one day spending a single, unforget- safeguard their wildlife species and table hour in the company of the wildlife habitats. We need to recruit mountain gorillas in the Virungas … and train more African conservation a world where hundreds of thousands professionals, and to extend conserva- of flamingos never again alight in a tion enterprise services to benefit splash of color on Lake Nakuru. more communities. Finally, we have Elephants and rhinos, great cats assumed the responsibility of helping and great apes, the migration of a to build a trust fund to ensure long- million wildebeests or the chase of predator and term support for the national parks that host the prey—Africa is the only continent that has been world’s last mountain gorillas. able to maintain its breathtaking wildlife spectacles. Unfortunately, there are no “quick fixes” for Great apes, elephants and predators not only solving these huge conservation challenges. But with add enjoyment to our lives and interest to the 40 years of experience in Africa, an outstanding staff landscapes; in many ways, they shape the ecology and a well-designed program, we are confident that of the landscapes through their interactions with the results we are starting to see in the Heartlands the vegetation, the land and smaller species. will begin to pay off over the next five to 15 years. This is why the African Wildlife Foundation has This long-term investment has importance for all just one objective: Together with the people of of humanity, and so we hope you will continue to Africa, we are working to ensure that the wildlife support our efforts. and wild lands of Africa endure forever. We believe AWF is working diligently to ensure that Africa’s that Africa is unique in the challenges it faces and wildlife and wild lands endure forever—and, in the opportunities it presents, and so, for more than doing so, we are having a real impact on real places. 40 years, we have been focusing our efforts on the continent we know and love, demonstrating our deep and unwavering commitment to Africa. Our track record of conserving Africa’s natural wonders is unmatched. And we’ve produced these successes with a modest budget, a small, dedicated D R . PA TRICK J. BERGIN staff and a results-driven approach. Most important- ly, no other group can claim that 80 percent of its staff is on the ground in Africa, working in the very landscapes we are determined to help conserve. Now we want to build on our proven results and “take them to scale” in order to achieve our ultimate goal of saving some of the world’s last, great conser- vation landscapes—AWF’s African Heartlands. Looking to the future, we will expand our ele- phant and predator research and conservation work. We are studying alternatives for reintroducing black rhinos into several Heartlands where they

3 Maasai-Steppe Heartland e were in Africa in the early days of independence, training Africans in professional wildlife management. We were the first international conservation organization Wwith a permanent presence in Africa, opening a Nairobi office in 1965. Today, we are the only conservation organization devoted exclusively to protecting wildlife in Africa. We are proud that 80 percent of our employees serve in Africa—and 85 percent of our conservation staff are African professionals. Our commitment to this extraordinary continent—its animals, its landscapes and its people—is unquestioned and unparalleled. But our mission has assumed a new urgency: As we work to save the last great wildlife migrations on earth and the multilayered rainforest that is home to the world’s few remaining mountain gorillas, modern Africa’s human population is growing, its cities are expanding and demand for agricultural land threatens the habitats of many wildlife species. Through our Heartlands initiative, we are focusing our efforts and resources on conserving a limited number of large, ecologically valuable landscapes while there is still time. We must succeed so that future generations will know Africa’s unique magnificence.

5 A WF CONSERVATION TARGETS BY HEARTLAND

FOUR CORNERS LIMPOPO HEARTLAND Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

KILIMANJARO HEARTLAND • Birds of prey • Black rhinos Kenya, Tanzania • Elephants • Cheetahs • Large predators—cheetah, • Declining and rare • Black rhinos leopard, lion, wild dog ungulates—Lichenstein • Declining ungulates—eland, gerenuk, giraffe, kudu • Native fishes—bream, tiger hartebeest, roan, sable, • Elephants • Wildlife migration routes tsessebe • Wild dogs and dispersal areas • White rhinos • Wildlife migration routes and dispersal areas • Representative woodlands— • Wild dogs • Declining tree species—juniper, ebony teak (miombo), mopane, • Wildlife migration routes • Hydrological systems—flood plains, lakes, rivers, springs, acacia and dispersal areas swamps, wetlands • Zambezi River

MAASAI-STEPPE SAMBURU VIRUNGA HEARTLAND ZAMBEZI HEARTLAND HEARTLAND HEARTLAND Democratic Republic of Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania Kenya Congo, Rwanda, Uganda Zimbabwe

• Elephants • Elephants • Mountain gorillas • Black rhinos • Large predators—cheetah, • Large predators—hyena, • Chimpanzees • Crocodiles leopard, lion, wild dog leopard, lion • Golden monkeys • Elephants • Locally endangered ungu- • Northern specialist • Large mammals and • Large predators—cheetah, lates—gerenuk, kudu, oryx species—gerenuk, Grevy’s herbivores—bush pig, lion, wild dog • Wildlife migration routes zebra, oryx, reticulated duiker, forest buffalo, • Elephant migration and dispersal areas giraffe, Somali ostrich forest elephant, corridors • Hydrological systems— • Wild dogs giant forest hog • Zambezi River catchment forests, rivers, • Loroki plateau grassland • Afromontane habitat swamps, Lake Burungi, • Ewaso Nyiro River and • Lakes, rivers and wetlands Lake Manyara watershed

6 A WF AFRICAN HEARTLANDS AND CONSERVATION CENTERS

Morocco

Algeria Libya Egypt Western Sahara Saudi Arabia

Mauritania

Mali Niger

Chad Yemen Sudan Burkina Faso Guinea Benin Nigeria Sierra Ivory Ethiopia Ghana Leone Coast Central African Republic Liberia Togo Cameroon Somalia Uganda Kenya Kampala Samburu Congo Virunga Gabon Nairobi Rwanda Arusha Democratic Republic Burundi Kilimanjaro of Congo Maasai-Steppe

Tanzania

Angola Malawi Mozambique Zambia Four Corners Zambezi Victoria Falls Madagascar Zimbabwe

Namibia Botswana Limpopo

White River Swaziland

Lesotho

South Africa

■ Heartlands ■ Conservation Centers ■ Countries where AWF works

7 Limpopo Heartland ecause many of Africa’s wild animals depend on different habitats for feeding, breeding and other needs, they must be free Bto roam large, diverse landscapes. But today these same landscapes are also home to growing popula- tions of people who need cultivated farmland and grazing pasture for their livestock. To solve this dilemma, AWF is helping the people and countries of Africa to designate—and conserve—the most significant wildlife landscapes of East, Southern and Central Africa while there is still time to implement meaningful conservation measures. Each of these African Heartlands consists of land owned by the government or private owners, or held collectively by a traditional com- munity; AWF’s role is to encourage all of these parties to come together to create an area that is ecologically and economically successful. That means crafting solutions that will help ensure each Heartland’s long-term survival … determining which species, ecosystems and sites are conservation priorities … identifying Heartland areas that are vital

9 CONSERVING SPECIES AND LANDSCAPES

to wildlife and therefore should be land for wildlife as we help develop reserved for them … deciding what lands community-based business ventures— can safely be used for farms, pastures or ecotourism lodges, community camp- tourist lodging … and suggesting wildlife- sites, fishing lodges and beekeeping proj- based businesses that will bring jobs and ects—that improve conservation man- other benefits to local communities. agement while benefiting local people. Today, AWF’s efforts to conserve AWF also sponsors species-monitor- selected conservation targets—both species and ing in communities, within parks and across landscapes lands that must be saved for future generations—by to demonstrate the ecological status of various wildlife implementing proven strategies is well under way. populations and other landscape characteristics— And we are pleased to report that we are seeing and to develop and refine conservation strategies. We results—modest, compared to the size of the chal- have conducted aerial and ground counts of flagship lenge, but significant. species in five of the Heartlands. AWF works with local park authorities in all the As we pursue these and other conservation strate- Heartlands to support park planning, management gies, we are learning important lessons, some of and enforcement. By cooperating with Tanzania which we are sharing across sites. The Ranger-Based National Parks (TANAPA), for example, we have Monitoring Program originally developed to protect helped improve roads in Lake Manyara and Tarangire the mountain gorillas in the Virungas is being adapt- national parks and have provided staff housing and ed to the Kilimanjaro and Samburu Heartlands. safe drinking water for park rangers. Now we are We know that trust-building is critical for enterprise developing visitor centers for these two parks. work with communities—and that reconciling We are training and mentoring young African private-sector and community viewpoints requires researchers to take the lead in investigating how land- patience. And with every successful project, we scapes relate to key species. Alfred Kikoti is studying the continue to refine our tools for analyzing, planning, elephants of the Kilimanjaro Heartland, and we have measuring conservation impact and documenting and identified a Kenyan researcher to study Grevy’s zebras communicating lessons learned—all for the purpose and a local Botswanan researcher to study predators. of conserving Africa’s unique species and landscapes. Protecting wildlife corridors and migratory paths is We are proud of our gains in conserving Africa’s a proven conservation strategy, and this year AWF wildlife and wild lands since we launched the African helped gain the Kitendeni corridor’s “formalization” Heartlands initiative. We have demonstrated the effec- so that elephants and other species can move between tiveness of a number of conservation strategies. Now Kilimanjaro Forest Reserve, Kilimanjaro National that we know what works, we need to invest more Park in Tanzania and Kenya’s Amboseli National resources in these strategies so that we can “scale up” Park. Now we are consulting with partners on how for conservation impact across entire landscapes. to secure elephant paths between Amboseli, Kimana and Tsavo national parks, and we’re leading land-use planning for elephant dispersal areas and corridors in Four Corners. We’re demonstrating that “conservation enter- D R . HELEN W. G ICHOHI prises” are a useful strategy for leveraging additional V ICE P RESIDENT OF P ROGRAM, NAIROBI

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Maasai-Steppe Heartland STRATEGY FOSTERING PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES [ 1 ]

taying “small and Uganda and Zambia and smart” is how AWF from the Regional Center Sgets things done. for Southern Africa. We are a results-driven organization with 80 percent THE NATURE of our staff on the ground in CONSERVANCY. For the Africa—working in the very past four years, AWF has landscapes we are committed worked with TNC specialists to conserving. to adapt their site conserva- In order to accomplish tion planning and monitor- our mission to save Africa’s ing tools to Africa. Together, wildlife and wild lands in an we have piloted use of efficient and cost-effective these tools across AWF manner, we link with organi- Heartlands with partners. zations that are not precisely TNC also has shared like us—but instead offer valuable expertise on skills that complement our own. The following are private land management approaches, including among our most valued donors and partners: land trusts.

USAID. Over the years, AWF has worked closely U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE. An important with USAID—centrally and through its missions— technical partner, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on priority conservation and development pro- supports our efforts to address the needs of specific grams across East, Southern, South and Central species and their habitats, including elephants and Africa. We gratefully acknowledge current project rhinos in Kenya and Tanzania, and mountain gorillas funding through USAID’s Africa Bureau under in the Virunga-Bwindi region. The U.S. Fish & CARPE (Central Africa Regional Program for the Wildlife Service provided seminal funding for the Environment) and the Gorilla Directive; through International Gorilla Conservation Program’s the Environment, Growth, Agriculture and Trade Ranger-Based Monitoring Program, which originated (EGAT) bureau through the Global Conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo before Program; and through missions in Kenya, Tanzania, expanding to Rwanda and Uganda.

L ANDSCAPE M ANAGEMENT, UP -CLOSE

AWF arranged for the U.S. Department of the Interior to send U.S. National Park Service specialists to work with Samburu Game Reserve on its first general management plan. The reserve hosts important lion and oryx populations. To highlight the need for landscape-scale or Heartlands planning in Samburu, Fiesta Warinwa, AWF landscape conservation officer, organized a study tour for Samburu District Council members into Tanzania. Meeting with James Kahurananga, head of our Arusha Conservation Center, and TANAPA colleagues as well as touring wildlife-rich Ngorongoro Crater, Samburu representatives were able to see for themselves how integrated management of both community lands and protected areas makes sense economically, socially and environmentally, said Warinwa.

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EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE. We have signed a Heartlands. The State Department is particularly memorandum of understanding with Earthwatch, interested in the potential of transboundary conserva- one of the world’s largest independent supporters of tion areas to mitigate conflict and promote peace. scientific field research. The first AWF-Earthwatch project will be in the Samburu Heartland. Earthwatch PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. We have signed a staff and volunteers will work with AWF Heartland memorandum of understanding to collaborate with teams and communities on research, management Princeton University, which has long-standing inter- and training initiatives structured to address the ests in Africa, particularly at the Mpala Research needs of specific wildlife conservation targets and to Center in Laikipia District. The university is alleviate threats to these targets. considering directing some of its research into the Heartlands, where AWF offers a clearly defined U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT. During this fiscal year, conservation agenda aligned around conservation the State Department became a new donor-partner. targets and threats—and where the site-planning Under the direction of Assistant Secretary of State for process has identified key knowledge gaps where Africa Walter H. Kansteiner III, the State Department research would be most helpful. has agreed to provide funding for conservation programs in AWF’s Four Corners and Virunga U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. AWF has developed a memorandum of understanding with DOI for technical support across Heartlands, building Results From Arizona Ranchers in Africa OR on a long history of productive collaboration in wo American ranchers traveled to Tanzania, where F Tanzania (through the USAID-funded PORI Tthey worked with James Kahurananga, head of AWF’s program), including law-enforcement training of Arusha Conservation Center, and with Manyara Ranch’s OOK Tanzania National Parks staff, and other priority L new manager to help repair several malfunctioning training. This collaboration has recently expanded dams on the ranch. to Kenya in planning for Samburu Game Reserve, The American ranchers have firsthand knowledge of with plans under way for support in Four Corners landscape-level conservation. They are affiliated with the and Virunga Heartlands. Malpai Group in Arizona, where The Nature Conservancy has worked with local communities and ranchers, encouraging TOUR OPERATORS. We partner with a number of them to “think big” about conservation issues. Notoriously tour operators on the ground in Africa, such as independent, these days the ranchers are running fire across Serena, Landela Safari and Wilderness Safari, to their lands, engaging in joint management, and grass-bank- foster development of conservation-related businesses ing. They also quietly manage several endangered species that benefit local people. Some other partners are that have a limited range in that region. Savannah Camps & Lodges, Loisaba Wilderness AWF and The Nature Conservancy staff, who together have and Heritage Group of Hotels. Our ecotourism adapted TNC site-planning tools for the African Heartlands, development partnerships are driven by three key noted similarities between Africa’s savanna environment and principles: responsible travel, conservation focus and the Southwest desert and actively promoted the trip. benefits to local landowners. We are working with a In 2001, Tanzania’s president declared Manyara Ranch portfolio of selected tour operators and hotel groups a protected wildlife corridor—and gave the ranch to the con- operating in AWF Heartlands to design travel experi- servation trust facilitated by AWF. ences that have a minimum impact on the environment, that invest in sustaining the wildlife heritage and that will benefit community groups.

14 STRATEGY USING PARKS AS ANCHORS [ 2 ]

n each AWF Heartland, protect. Parks offer a high national parks (or some level of protection through Iother protected area) are a law enforcement and anti- key component of the land- poaching efforts of partner use mosaic that comprises park personnel, provide the landscape. In some cases, habitat and forage, and these protected areas serve as often are critical breeding spatial “bookends” to the grounds. They also tend to landscape, with communal be a focal point for AWF’s and/or private land in partnerships. between. This is what we AWF has always worked mean when we speak of parks as “anchors” in to enhance the capacity of park department person- Heartlands. nel, as the long-term stewards of their country’s Parks also function as ecological anchors—in other wildlife resources. This is another way in which words, they are critical to the conservation targets parks, and park personnel, remain a real focus of (species, systems, communities) that we’re working to AW F’s work in each Heartland.

A NIMAL K INGDOM IN L IMPOPO

Africa’s vast new transfrontier park is larger than Switzerland. In fact, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is being called “the world’s biggest animal kingdom.” We supported the formation of this “mega” conservation park, which joins South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Mozambique’s Coutada 16 (now called Limpopo National Park) and Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park. AWF’s Limpopo Heartland spans the borders of the three countries and includes the popular Kruger, which hosts more than 1.5 million visitors yearly and has a rich diversity of wildlife—including 10,000 elephants. Due to conflicting conservation practices and security issues, a formidable game fence between Kruger and Mozambique cut this huge ecological system in half for years. In 2001, South Africa dismantled a portion of the fence and began a three-year, $20 million process of relocating 1,000 elephants from Kruger across the border into Mozambique’s Limpopo Park—a pragmatic solution to managing South Africa’s elephant population. The new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park doubles the land available for wildlife—and should help reinvigorate Kruger’s growing elephant population. The transfrontier park will be surrounded by a larger transfrontier conservation area containing a mix of protected areas as well as community and private-sector enterprises. AWF’s role has focused on the social sustainability A New Vacation Destination he Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and OR of this park, helping organize three country forums representing F the Shangani and other people living around the park. Tsurrounding area are expected to become one of Africa’s great ecotourism destinations, Authorities of the three countries have agreed that visitors OOK

will no longer be required to hold various visas to travel among generating jobs and income for the area’s L the three parks that make up the new transfrontier park. 2 million human neighbors.

15 STRATEGY SUPPORTING SPECIES RESEARCH AND PROTECTION [ 3 ]

WF continues to concentrate its resources on directly in protecting elephant populations in six saving Africa’s elephants, gorillas, rhinos African Heartlands where they are a key species. Aand other large species that are increasingly We continue to support the development of tech- threatened by habitat destruction, human-wildlife niques to study elephants and build the base of conflict and poaching. By protecting these keystone knowledge regarding their social and ecological species—which serve as ecological ambassadors dimensions. And we are addressing a newer threat to for innumerable other wildlife—we are effectively Africa’s elephants: loss of habitat and conflict with working to protect the functioning of the landscape a growing human population. Through economic as a whole. activity that links the interests of communities and Dr. Philip Muruthi, AWF’s Sally Patterson Chief the private sector, we are seeking to build local Scientist, leads this effort. Under his guidance, AWF support for elephant conservation that will in turn also channels research funds to studies designed to reestablish corridors and expand habitat. gather data about important species and to pilot management strategies that eliminate threats to PREDATOR PROJECTS. All of Africa’s large preda- Africa’s wildlife ambassadors. tors are threatened by shrinking habitats, overhunt- ing and disease spread by domestic animals and RHINO CONSERVATION. Thanks to dedicated con- encroaching human settlements. To identify threats servationists, Africa’s rhinoceros population contin- to predator populations and find ways to save them, ues to increase: There are now an estimated 14,770 we have funded leopard studies and developed a rhinos in Africa—up from 13,109 rhinos in 1999. predator protection project in which real dollars AW F has been at the forefront of rhino conservation are being invested in South Africa, Namibia and for several decades, supporting anti-poaching efforts Kenya—not only to study the biology of predators and banning trade in rhino horns. And when we but also to understand why their numbers are declin- determined that other steps were necessary, we sup- ing. We currently support research on Ethiopian ported more drastic protection measures, exemplified wolves, one of Africa’s most endangered species, and by our work in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park’s wild dogs, whose numbers in Africa are estimated at fenced sanctuary, where rhinos have been reintro- only 3,000 to 5,000. Our newest wild dog study is duced since 1993. Today, AWF supports rhino conser- expected to lead to a better understanding of a vation projects in Kenya “remnant” wild dog and Tanzania. population in southern Kenya and northern ELEPHANT RESEARCH. Tanzania—and will help Elephants traditionally promote coexistence have played a leading role with local Maasai pastoral in our understanding of the communities. In the most innovative approach- Zambezi Heartland, es to conservation. We now AWF-funded researchers know that where researchers are exploring whether the monitor and study ele- hunting of “trophy” phants, protection can male lions is harming the increase and their social structure of lion numbers can thrive. AWF prides and the survival currently is intervening of cubs.

16 E XPANDING AW F ’ S E LEPHANT R ESEARCH I NTO W EST K ILIMANJARO

AWF launched its elephant research program in for Elephant Conservation in West Kilimanjaro.” West Kilimanjaro this year and engaged a full-time His early findings indicate that 70 percent of wildlife researcher, Alfred Kikoti. the 400 elephants in west Kilimanjaro are from For several decades, AWF supported ground- Amboseli National Park, demonstrating the need breaking elephant research in the Kilimanjaro for a transboundary approach to natural resource ecosystem through the Amboseli Elephant Research management in the area. Project, launched by Cynthia Moss in 1972. Now In addition, Kikoti has learned that elephants an independent nongovernmental organization, are moving from Mt. Kilimanjaro to Lake Natron, AERP continues to study elephants on the Kenyan making the identification of elephant corridors side of the Kilimanjaro Heartland. an important element of elephant conservation To complement AERP’s research and to help in the region. paint a landscape-level picture of this wide-ranging The results of Kikoti’s research will be used species, AWF is investing in research on the for Heartland-level planning, to promote human- Tanzanian side of the Heartland. As AWF elephant wildlife conflict resolution, and as a land-use research officer, Kikoti studies elephant distribution, planning tool. abundance, age and sex structures and key corridors Saving the region’s magnificent elephants, of in the area stretching from Lake Natron to West course, remains the chief focus of Kikoti’s efforts. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Not only is the species one of the main conservation Kikoti, a Tanzanian citizen and graduate of Mweka targets in the Kilimanjaro Heartland, but elephants College of African Wildlife Management, formerly are considered ecosystem flagships, and Kikoti is was with the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) as optimistic about opportunities to secure their habi- an officer in Katavi and Kilimanjaro national parks. tat: “We still have considerable wildlife densities He recently received a master’s degree from the in the Kilimanjaro Heartland. We still have a University of Aberystwyth in Wales, where his chance in this landscape. We are not late, nor are research focused on “Constraints and Opportunities we starting from scratch.”

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ANTI-POACHING. Poaching incidents increased this kidnap young gorillas to sell on the black market. year. Black rhinos in Kenya and Tanzania are being Through the International Gorilla Conservation hunted down by poachers who prize the rhinos’ Program, we have helped the park departments of rare and valuable horns. AWF has instituted drastic Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of measures—including armed patrols—to ensure Congo strengthen their anti-poaching efforts, that the rhinos’ sanctuary is protected. In addition, including 24-hour joint patrols with the military AWF is providing park guards with training, of the approximately 10 habituated gorilla groups. security and manpower. In Longido, near the northern border of Tanzania, Elephant Counts From Angola as well as in the Kilimanjaro and Maasai-Steppe OR Heartlands, approximately 40 elephants were illegally WF and Angola are negotiating a government F slaughtered; seven elephants were killed in Charara Acensus that would shed new light on the status of safari area on the Zimbabwe side of the Zambezi elephants and their habitats in Angola, which adjoins OOK L Heartland. These incidents suggest that the ivory AWF’s Four Corners Heartland. AWF President Patrick markets are active—and that poachers are feeding Bergin was recently in Angola discussing the issue with the illegal trade in ivory. To help address the Angolan authorities. Civil war has ravaged the area and poaching threat, we have enlisted law enforcement decimated wildlife populations, but there is no word on specialists from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to how the elephant population survived the conflict. train African rangers in modern law enforcement We anticipate partnering with Angola on the elephant issue techniques and strategies. and other transboundary wildlife management questions, On May 9, 2002, poachers in Rwanda’s Volcano integrating those efforts into our work in Four Corners. National Park killed two highly endangered mountain gorillas. The killers were on a mission to

18 STRATEGY BROKERING COMMUNITY AND PRIVATE-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS [ 4 ]

he Conservation Enterprise Program is still in participate in a unique volunteer ecotourism project its early stages, but in just three years AWF has that will secure a wildlife corridor that connects two Tmade important progress under the leadership terrestrial “islands” of habitat known as Tsavo East of Isidore Gwashure, a former businessman and the and Tsavo West national parks. The creation of this perfect candidate to build partnerships between the corridor will allow wildlife to move naturally and private sector and local communities. We are finding replenish healthy populations. Equally important, unique ways to channel private-sector money and the project will help protect the unique forest on skills into wildlife areas. Our role is to act as an hon- Mount Kasigau. est broker in business deals where the communities In turn, the communities gain much-needed keep their land open for wildlife in return for tourist income by providing basic rural accommodations to dollars. The payoff: more land for conservation. field volunteers working in the region. The project Our initial approach involved facilitating negotia- offers volunteers a unique living environment while tions between landowners and investors: providing essential community and conservation services. TOURIST FACILITIES In its first year, the NEAR MOUNT KASIGAU project generated $37,000. IN KENYA. In partnership Seventy percent of this was with USAID, we facilitated distributed as dividends the construction of tourist to household village facilities in Mount Kasigau- shareholders, 20 percent Tsavo, Kenya. was retained for investment Mount Kasigau is an in schools, dispensaries and isolated area nestled in the other community priorities Taita Hills and part of the and 10 percent was paid to northern limit of the the local Kasigau Wildlife Eastern Arc mountain Conservation Trust to range. It is a region of be used for wildlife On safari, tourists learn about Maasai culture. unparalleled biodiversity, management. home to more endemic species than any other region of Kenya. Recognized worldwide as a key biological INVESTMENT BUYOUT IN SAMBURU. We helped location, the Eastern Arc is one of 25 of the richest the Namunyak community in the Samburu and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal Heartland arrange to buy out equity in a lodge from life on Earth. Mount Kasigau contains some of the a private investor, Acacia Trails Ltd., which had last intact and undisturbed Eastern Arc forests, home constructed Sarara Camp on land leased from the to 453 forest species of vascular plants and species of community. The investor realized that his long-term amphibians, birds, insects and primates found investment would prove more valuable if he were nowhere else. Mount Kasigau, by virtue of its geo- to involve the community as equity-holders, and graphical isolation, remains relatively undisturbed asked us to help him engage the community. At our and provides an important source of water to people recommendation, he sold shares in his lodge to the and wildlife roaming outside the area’s parks. community, and we wrote a business plan for the Surrounding majestic Mount Kasigau are a number new entity. The community has since bought him of small, isolated rural communities. We organized out and now fully owns the facility, which continues these communities into shareholding companies to to be managed under contract by the former owner.

19 BROKERING COMMUNITY AND PRIVATE-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS

BETTER TERMS FOR KIMANA TIKONDO GROUP W ILDLIFE-FRIENDLY E NTERPRISES RANCH IN AMBOSELI. When the ranch was A Maasai community in Tanzania adjacent to approached by a tour company wanting to lease 6,000 Serengeti National Park leases a lodge site and acres of sanctuary immediately abutting Amboseli receives a bed-night fee from a luxury safari National Park for the purposes of developing a camp owned by Conservation Corporation. A tourism facility, the contract the tourism company Samburu community in northern Kenya operates presented had some tough demands: Residents living a Starbed® camp on their land along the Ewasi on those acres had to relocate; farmers couldn’t graze Ngiro River as a satellite to another lodge in the their livestock there, even during dry season; local area, earning them $250 per bed night. In the people were even barred from collecting firewood beautiful, arid landscapes of central Namibia, a in the area. Group ranch leaders asked us to help community group staffs and owns shares in a negotiate a more suitable lease. To determine the tented camp that will eventually revert to total wishes of the residents, we visited the group ranch. community ownership. From a copy of the contract that we had translated When we assist rural communities with few into Swahili, then translated into Maasai, we were other resources to establish successful conservation able to present the entire proposal to the community enterprises like these, “their” wildlife becomes an so that they could understand its terms and make asset rather than a costly nuisance. In helping save a suitable counter-offer. Eventually we negotiated a wild animals and their habitat, we also are improv- better, more moderate contract that allowed the ing the prospects of people in Africa. relationship to work. Our growing network of Conservation Centers staffed with young African professionals with skills IN EVERY NEGOTIATION, AWF ALSO HAS A STAKE— ranging from community mobilization to land-use THAT THE LAND IN QUESTION IS MANAGED TO planning to ecology to law works to protect the BENEFIT CONSERVATION. And that usually means large percentage of Africa’s wildlife that lives out- moderating the interests of both business and the com- side of parks and reserves. And the way they do munity so that wildlife and their habitats are protected. that is by helping establish management plans and Today, we continue to help negotiate large-scale busi- conservation enterprises on privately owned lands ness and community ecotourism ventures that permit that will promote wildlife conservation while gen- rural communities to operate or share in profitable busi- erating economic benefits for the landowners. nesses and benefit from the presence of wildlife on their So far, we have helped local people establish lands. But we have also learned that many more com- concessions for wildlife safaris, ecotourism lodges, munities would willingly invest in wildlife tourism, if walking safaris and bed and breakfasts. Other they only knew how—and had the necessary financial enterprises include the production of honey from capital. “We want to milk the wild herd” or “We want to protected forests, sale of local handicrafts to drink milk from the elephant,” they explain—in other tourists and the marketing and export of bush words, we, too, want to benefit from “our” wildlife. products. Thanks to these innovative programs, Responding to an ever-growing number of invita- people who live near African parks are seeing tions from communities throughout the Heartlands, neighboring wildlife in a new, more favorable we are undertaking feasibility studies that will suggest light: a possible passport to economic opportunity profitable wildlife-related businesses suited to an for themselves and their communities. And when area’s wild animals and human culture. We are also people are friendly to wildlife, it thrives. identifying and engaging investors and developers, drafting management agreements, exploring funding

20 Pitching African Enterprises OR

to U.S. Markets F WF has recently expanded its

African marketing capacity OOK

A L to the United States, in the form of Moses Kanene, an enterprise sources, helping establish corporations that are and marketing specialist on rotation in Washington, D.C., empowered to transact business on behalf of the from his home base in Kenya to promote community-owned community and helping to construct facilities. and conservation-friendly African enterprises. Across AWF’s The realization that we are being asked by Africa’s enterprise portfolio, marketing community products— wildlife-rich but economically poor communities whether eco-lodges or native honey—is critical to to do more than negotiate deals on their behalf success. Kanene will target his U.S. efforts on leveraging led us to USAID, a valued AWF donor and partner. support for a full range of community enterprises. For the Over the coming years, its Conservation of Resources tourism sector, he says he is looking to put “heads in Through Enterprise program will assist communities beds”—of community-owned and managed lodges with with grant money for planning and developing whom AWF is working to achieve linked conservation facilities required to operate their conservation and development benefit flows. enterprises.

S WEETENING THE D EAL

Kenyans have a taste for honey, but the enormous national demand is not being met. The country’s potential market is estimated to be 80,000 to 100,000 metric tons of honey and 80,000 to 100,000 metric tons of beeswax annually. Current production is only 20,000 and 10,000 tons, respectively. We are working with three group ranches in Amboseli—Kimana, Olgulului Lollarashi and Imbirikani— to create a community-based beekeeping enterprise, the Namelok Apiculture Project, which will help meet the demand for honey while providing the means to a livelihood for local youth, 70 percent of whom are unemployed. The young people will own hives on land that has been set aside for the conservation enterprise. For the first year, the project will focus on producing comb honey, eventually diversifying to produce and market refined honey, beeswax, royal jelly, propolis, pollen and bee venom. It is also anticipated that a modern processing unit will be installed for bulk processing. Honey for the market will be packaged in the form of crude, semi-refined, liquid, chunk and creamed. Candle, batik-making and other income-generating activities will also be introduced. The conservation enterprise’s long-term goal is to commission a beehive processing unit to supply local individual consumers and also institutions, including hospitals and tourist lodges.

21 STRATEGY PROTECTING WILDLIFE CORRIDORS AND MIGRATORY PATHS [ 5 ]

any of Africa’s great wild creatures have a reserve, a large former ranch and a number of smaller “home park.” But that doesn’t mean they community parcels and corridors into a much larger Mremain within those boundaries at all times. and safer continuous conservation landscape. In the Wild animals have an innate need to move about, Kilimanjaro Heartland, a wildlife migratory route either for food, water or breeding purposes. To retain that was about to be sold off to individual buyers their ability to behave naturally, they must be free instead has been set aside as a “no-settlement” area, to change their feeding grounds with the seasons, to permitting elephants and other migratory species to exchange bloodlines with others of their kind. Small, move safely between Kilimanjaro Forest Reserve, isolated populations eventually lose their health Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania and and vitality and ultimately die out. Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Preserving habitat for Africa’s wildlife is, of Working together, government, communities course, critical to maintaining its survival. One key and private landowners are helping create areas that objective of our Heartlands initiative is to ensure are ecologically and economically successful. And connectivity of habitats and to allow the natural where habitats for large animals are protected, movement patterns of large fauna such as elephants. many thousands of smaller species also flourish. But this is not an easy task. As Africa’s rural population grows and cities expand, more and more Re-establishing a Zambia Corridor land falls to human activities. Wetlands and swamps OR are drained, traditional calving grounds are tilled WF is working with communities in two chiefdoms F under and wildlife corridors are obstructed, forcing Aas well as the private sector in Zambia to create a wildlife to retreat to smaller and smaller remnants partnership intended to help conserve an important OOK L of their former range. wildlife migration corridor between Botswana and For this reason, maintaining viable corridors for Zambia’s Kafue National Park. The partnership has the migrating species is a key conservation strategy at potential to leverage 250,000 hectares of land for AW F. In the Maasai-Steppe Heartland in Tanzania, conservation. we’ve helped to join two national parks, a forest

22 K ITENDENI C ORRIDOR N OW “OFFICIAL” WILDLIFE R OUTE

Thanks to fast action by local villages and our Kilimanjaro Heartland team, an ancient wildlife migratory route that was about to be sold off to individual buyers instead has been set aside as a “no-settlement” area. Since the 1920s, local Maasai communities have recognized Kitendeni corridor as a key habitat linkage for elephants and other migratory species moving between Kilimanjaro Forest Reserve, Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania and Amboseli National Park in Kenya. It is also a strate- gic grazing and foraging area for farmers’ livestock. Despite its importance as a wildlife habitat, the Kitendeni corridor was not protected by law. As a result, about 10 years ago, with drought and disease wiping out their livestock, many local Maasai were forced to turn to farming in order to survive—and on the Tanzania side to mark this core area, and the fertile corridor was a natural outlet. AWF is working to secure the corridor on the Kenya But as human “encroachment” took hold, the side. And a conservation management committee corridor’s dimensions narrowed. A 1990s study has been appointed to maintain the corridor. showed the corridor was 10km wide; when ecologist While we help to ensure that the elephants can and AWF researcher Alfred Kikoti remeasured the continue to use the corridor, their main access pathway in 2000, he found it had shrunk to just 5km. route to and from Kilimanjaro, we’re also making Recently, the already threatened corridor was fur- sure that local people will profit from business ther jeopardized when the government found that enterprises based on tourism and the area’s rich some people had settled inside the forest reserve, natural resources. The community at Kitendeni which will become part of Kilimanjaro National village has asked us to recommend conservation- Park. Ordered to move out immediately, they started related business enterprises and has said it is willing settling and signing plots in the corridor. In the to set aside more land as a “multiple use area.” scramble by potential buyers to own a piece of the The Kitendeni corridor also plays a critical role corridor, individuals from Kenya and Tanzania were in Africa’s larger ecological picture, says Kikoti. offering up to $1,000 per acre for the rich land— “This is a unique habitat. Because it falls in a ideal for growing beans, a diet staple in the region. transition area between the forest and the semi- We sent in a team to evaluate human encroach- arid savanna woodland, the corridor has a greater ment in the corridor. The report, confirming the variety of life forms—or biodiversity—than the urgency of the situation, was sent to the district areas it connects. The diverse habitat creates a council, which quickly approved the local villages’ microhabitat for many species, including some land-use plan. The council recognized the corridor found in the corridor but not in the forest or the as a grazing area for livestock and a wildlife corridor savanna.” A recent study of wildlife in the area and ordered that its boundaries be demarcated. recorded buffaloes, bushbacks, elands, giraffes, With AWF funding, beacons have been installed Grant’s gazelles, impalas, lesser kudu, and lions.

23 STRATEGY BUILDING CAPACITY [ 6 ]

Dr. Helen Gichohi with AWF elephant researcher Alfred Kikoti

ho will save Africa’s wildlife? At AWF, Dr. Philip Muruthi is AWF’s Sally Patterson we’ve always recognized that it is capable Chief Scientist. He graduated from Princeton Wand dedicated African men and women University with a doctorate in biology in 1996 and is who ultimately will determine the future of Africa, now responsible for ensuring that AWF activities its wildlife and wild lands. enhance the protection of species and habitat. Today, hundreds and thousands of people are Isidore Gwashure, director of AWF’s Conservation working behind the scenes, making decisions and Centers, is a former business executive with a back- taking actions that have the power to ensure a place ground in travel and tourism—unusual qualifications for Africa’s wildlife in the continent’s future. for a conservation organization. But he is a key figure Dr. Helen Gichohi, an African ecologist, oversees in our efforts to save wildlife as he works to build and AW F’s conservation programs in Africa. She holds sustain partnerships between the private sector and a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Leicester local communities. and is convinced that the only way to save wildlife In Botswana, a San (bushman) community has set in Africa is to save the land. up its own wildlife reserve and promotes conservation James Kahurananga, AWF’s Maasai-Steppe and tourism over the Internet. In South Africa, a Heartland coordinator, has worked with wildlife and township community has won a court case over land conservation issues almost all his life. In 1961, he wrongfully taken from them in the past and has became one of the first East Africans selected by agreed to keep the land under joint management with AWF to study wildlife management in the United Kruger National Park. States at Colorado State University. Thirty-five years Our founders recognized from the very beginning later, he now heads AWF’s model program, the that conservation in Africa had to be of, by and for Maasai-Steppe Heartland in northern Tanzania. the people. We trained the first African head of parks Eugène Rutagarama, a program manager with the and wildlife in Kenya and the first new director of AWF-supported International Gorilla Conservation conservation for national parks in post-apartheid Program (IGCP), received the Goldman Environmental South Africa. And we’ve contributed to the training Prize last year for his efforts to protect the tropical forests of hundreds of other African conservationists who of Rwanda and the approximately 358 mountain goril- have gone on to play important roles as park las in the region during a decade of war and genocide. wardens, rangers, researchers and guides.

24 C HARLOTTE F ELLOWSHIPS FOR Y OUNG A FRICANS

The Charlotte Conservation Fellowship Program provides educational and financial assistance to Africans pursuing master’s or doctoral studies in subjects such as species and ecosystem conservation, community conservation and resource economics. The program was created to honor AWF supporter Charlotte Kidder Ramsay, who strongly endorsed our efforts to encourage young African professionals to work in conserva- tion. As part of the criteria for the program, candidates must have a secured place at an appropriate univer- sity and they must show a demonstrated commitment and potential for leadership in conservation.

AWF HAS ANNOUNCED SELECTION OF FIVE CHARLOTTE FELLOWS FOR 2002–2003. EUGÈNE RUTAGARAMA began a master’s degree course in applied ecology and conservation at the University of East Anglia in England in September 2002. A native of Rwanda, he is a program manager with the International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP). He won the Getty Prize for Wildlife Conservation in 1996 and the Goldman Environmental Award in 2001 for his work and commitment in the conservation field. Upon graduating, Rutagarama intends to return to IGCP in September 2003.

POLLY W. MWANGI is the human resources administrator with the African Wildlife Foundation. Earlier this year, she embarked on a distance-learning master’s degree course in training and human resource management at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Her research will explore the role of staff motivation in organizational performance.

DERESSE DEJENE KEDU began his master’s degree course work in conservation biology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom, in September 2002. A native of Ethiopia, he entered the conser- vation field in 1989. He has held the chief warden position in three of the national parks in Ethiopia. He is particularly interested in implementing a survey that will determine the attitudes of local communities toward the conservation of the Ethiopian wolf.

SIMON SURUAI LEIRANA began his master’s degree course work in tourism and conservation at the University of Kent at Canterbury in September 2002. For the last nine years, he has been with the Samburu County Council, working as a game warden. His interests include range training programs, community edu- cation and ecotourism. After he receives his master’s degree in September 2003, he intends to use his newly acquired knowledge and skills to improve the conservation standards in Samburu National Reserve.

WANGECI F. MWAI is pursuing her distance-learn- Behrman Family’s Predator Project

ing master’s degree course work in business adminis- WF is planning a predator project focused on Four OR tration at the University of Durham in the United ACorners in cooperation with the Behrman family, who F Kingdom. She has 11 years’ experience in enterprise donated funds in memory of Darryl Behrman. The project will use a local Botswanan researcher who has been OOK development. In 1999 she joined AWF, where she L was responsible for enterprise development in the working in the area to study the special use of landscape Samburu Heartland. She recently became a business by predators and how to avoid conflict between predators advisory services manager for the Tourism Trust and humans. Protecting Africa’s predators was a strong Fund, a joint venture between the government of interest of Darryl Behrman. Kenya and the European Commission.

25 STRATEGY “TAKING IT REGIONAL” [ 7 ]

f AWF’s portfolio of seven Heartlands, five four parks that comprise the remaining range of the are transboundary sites. When habitat mountain gorillas were managed as separate entities Oextends across political borders, or when by the national protected-area authorities. Yet threats we select as a conservation target a large mammal to the mountain gorillas and their habitat—human that crosses boundaries, the Heartland is considered population density, human encroachment, poaching, to be a “transboundary” site—with all the deforestation and civil unrest—have come from peo- complexity that entails. ple living all around the shared ecosystems. Because Elephants, for example, are oblivious to national all three countries have a strong incentive to protect borders that divide their habitat, but they and other the ecosystem and the many benefits it offers local animals don’t always find it easy to travel the migra- communities—including the economic benefits of tion corridors between parks and reserves in adjoin- gorilla tourism—establishing a regional framework for ing countries. In Central Africa, the forests of the collaboration and transboundary natural resource Virunga volcanoes are one of two forest blocks that management has been highly successful. are home to the mountain gorillas; the forest blocks span the border between Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo and are separated into four national parks. To address such challenges, we form partnerships and strategic alliances to assemble technical and financial resources that allow us to “go to scale”— creating a cohesive conservation program across the landscape. The International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), a coalition of AWF, Fauna and Flora International and the World Wide Fund for Nature whose primary zone of operations is the Virunga- Bwindi region, illustrates the effectiveness of trans- boundary natural resource management. Before IGCP initiated its regional conservation efforts in 1991, the

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As our African Heartland sites mature as regional landscapes, we’re mindful of our responsibility to document what we’re learning about conservation of wildlife and wild lands on a large scale. In fall 2001, IGCP staff published a case study entitled, “Beyond Boundaries: Transboundary Natural Resource Management for Mountain Gorillas in the Virunga-Bwindi Region,” as part of a broader transboundary natural resource management analysis of the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP). The study analyzes the results of efforts to protect the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas, which AWF has supported since 1967. BSP also asked us to produce a case study documenting how our approach and programming in the Kilimanjaro Heartland evolved from a focus on elephants through support to Cynthia Moss’s Amboseli Elephant Research Project, which was launched in 1972, to a truly transboundary program that includes a range of conservation targets and fully integrates the Tanzania side of this dynamic landscape.

26 T HE M OUNTAIN G ORILLA C ONSERVATION T RUST F UND

As AWF works to save Africa’s large, complicated landscapes through the Heartlands initiative, the need for sustainable funding for these efforts becomes more apparent. How do you finance conservation over the long term? The International Gorilla Conservation Program, for example, requires a minimum of AWF Goes West! $750,000 annually to collaborate with government OR and community partners on essential conservation WF has a long history in Central Africa, with more F activities in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Athan two decades of work in the Virunga region, Republic of Congo. This suggests the need for an protecting the mountain gorillas. Today, there is a clear OOK L overall endowment of approximately $15 million. need to secure this longstanding Virunga investment and As the program’s founders and managers, AWF, also to move west in order to address other key threats to Fauna and Flora International and the World Wide biodiversity in the Congo Basin. Fund for Nature have agreed to jointly raise this Already, innovative tools such as IGCP’s Ranger-Based $15 million. Monitoring Program are being piloted with colleagues as In the meantime, representatives of the protected- far west as Nigeria. And we have an opportunity to apply area authorities of the three countries have signed an our expertise in conservation enterprises, landscape-level agreement to cooperate in conserving the region’s site planning, and capacity-building elsewhere in the ecosystem for purposes of peace and sustainable Congo Basin. development. We are working with other conservation and develop- The ultimate beneficiaries are the mountain ment organizations through the USAID-supported Central gorillas. With only 668 remaining, they are among Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) to the world’s most endangered apes. The Trust Fund better understand and address forest conservation issues will also help support the region’s parks depart- across the Basin. ments and their staffs—who daily risk their lives Beyond the Basin, the Heartland team is reviewing AWF’s in a climate of civil unrest to protect the gorillas site-selection criteria for prioritizing regions and habitat and their forest habitat. types as AWF considers expanding its Heartland portfolio as part of a new five-year strategy currently being designed.

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V irunga Heartland PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

t AWF, we believe directly address tourists visit- that conservationists ing regions of Africa where Aare made, not born. we operate. Through various One of our most important media—airport displays, goals is to communicate the feature articles in airline need to conserve Africa’s inflight magazines and infor- wild lands and wild species— mational brochures distrib- and to give people the infor- uted through tour operators, mation, tools and opportuni- lodges and parks—we are ties to join us in our efforts. reaching a growing number of individuals from all over PUBLIC RELATIONS. The the world with our wildlife communications and mar- conservation message. keting department oversees activities ranging from media relations to promotional events such as lecture EDUCATING TOMORROW’S CONSERVATIONISTS. tours. The department is contacted weekly by the The Charlotte Conservation Fellowship Program has National Geographic Society for specific information grown out of our long-standing commitment to train- and is regularly approached by television stations and ing African people to manage the continent’s natural film companies expressing interest in collaboration. resources. The program was founded in 1996 in mem- ory of Charlotte Kidder Ramsay, an AWF supporter WEB SITE. AWF’s Web site, www.awf.org, is a major who strongly endorsed AWF efforts to encourage means of education and outreach. The site includes young African professionals to work in conservation. Heartlands updates, African Wildlife News headlines and highlights, news updates from Africa, animal facts, Soundprints

wildlife sounds, a computer wallpaper gallery and new OR photos weekly. The site also features animal profiles WF is joining with Soundprints, an official F based on AWF’s safari guidebook “Wild Lives.” ASmithsonian licensee, to create exciting stories

Our site receives approximately 50,000 hits per month, of animal adventures based on the real-life experiences OOK L and 15 percent of visitors are from outside the United and observations of AWF conservation staff—for example, States. We provide information on request, and receive situations that rangers have observed. The stories take an average of 10 questions daily from Web visitors, place across our seven African Heartlands (Four Corners, many of them teachers and students. Kilimanjaro, Limpopo, Maasai-Steppe, Samburu, Virunga and Zambezi) and feature high-profile animals that are studied PUBLIC AWARENESS. In an effort to raise public and cared for through our various research projects. awareness about the critical conservation issues facing The storybooks have corresponding stuffed toys and Africa, AWF sends out periodic mailings designed to read-along audio tapes narrated by AWF staff to bring reach additional audiences and develop support for six animal species alive for young children. Each book AWF programs. These new supporters are critical in and stuffed animal is created with curatorial accuracy, AW F’s efforts to save Africa’s magnificent wildlife high quality and the Smithsonian endorsement, making and wild lands. the collection unique in the U.S. market. Educational as well as entertaining, the Soundprints series has won TOURIST INFORMATION. Visitors to Africa are the Parents’ Choice Award for five consecutive years. receptive to learning more about conservation issues The Soundprints books will be published in fall 2003. and how they can actively participate in saving Africa’s natural treasures. This year we began to

31 MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS

WF provides members with printed materials partners can stay up-to-date with our progress in about actions they may take to support conserving wildlife across all seven of our Heartlands. Aconservation in Africa. AWF’s newsletter, We look forward to continuing our collaboration African Wildlife News, includes articles on wildlife, for African wildlife conservation in the years ahead. conservation activities and AWF projects. Regular mailings offer another way of updating and educating A Bigger and Better Web Site members about conservation in Africa and AWF’s OR activities and policies. WF’s Web site is being redesigned and will be F With great appreciation, the African Wildlife Aonline by late 2002. The Web site will have a Foundation acknowledges the steadfast loyalty and new safari-planning section, where users will be OOK L ongoing commitment of our members, contributors able to gather information and tips on where and and active supporters. We thank them for partnering how to travel in Africa. The Web site will also link to with us in our efforts to craft and deliver creative a number of African community enterprises with which solutions for the long-term well-being of Africa’s we work closely. Our Web site’s new look will reflect unique species and ecosystems. In fiscal year 2002, the beauty of Africa’s landscapes and also will include these caring individuals provided $2.7 million in a number of new wildlife sounds. operating revenue to make possible AWF’s efforts to protect and conserve mountain gorillas, elephants, Special AWF Issue of Nature’s Best rhinos, lions, giraffes and myriad other species for WF and Nature’s Best magazine are partnering to future generations. Acreate a spring edition of the magazine devoted Our special thanks to them this year for their entirely to Africa, and highlighting the African Wildlife contributions to stop illegal poaching of mountain Foundation’s work in Heartland regions throughout gorillas, elephants and rhinos. Through African east and southern Africa. Wildlife News and our e-newsletter, members and

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Kilimanjaro Heartland n 2002, the African Wildlife Foundation spent nearly $7.8 million on conservation. More than $6.8 million was spent on conservation field and policy expenses to support programs in IAWF’s Heartlands and Conservation Centers, and over $900,000 was allocated to conservation education programs for the public and AWF’s members. In 2002, AWF received more than $2.7 million in generous support from individuals and nearly $600,000 from foundations and corporations. An additional $4.8 million in funding came from U.S. government agencies, primarily the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and European aid agencies like the Department for International Development. Also in 2002, AWF received $1.4 million in bequests from our generous long-term supporters. AWF upgraded its accounting and financial management systems over this past year to ensure that every contribution dollar is used efficiently, with 83 cents of every dollar supporting our conservation efforts.

35 FUNDING AND FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

Statement of Activities For the year ending June 30, 2002, with comparative totals for 2001 2002 2001 Current year operating revenues and expenses Revenues Individuals...... $2,714,690 $3,199,333 Corporations and foundations ...... 579,064 734,958 Government grants and contracts ...... 4,846,091 3,522,725 In-kind contributions ...... 34,000 54,400 Nonoperating income utilized...... 1,018,029 619,301 Royalties and other earned revenues ...... 117,126 163,227 Total unrestricted revenues, gains and other support 9,309,000 8,293,944 Expenses Program expenses: Conservation field and policy programs ...... 6,859,340 6,617,123 Public education ...... 680,676 562,563 Membership programs ...... 251,611 259,171 7,791,627 7,438,857 Supporting services expenses: Finance and administration ...... 752,235 651,972 Fundraising ...... 849,959 663,856 1,602,194 1,315,828 Total expenses 9,393,821 8,754,685 Current year operating revenues over operating expenses (84,821) (460,741)

Nonoperating activities and pledges Nonoperating activities Bequests and endowments ...... 1,418,313 621,497 Income from long-term investments...... (489,753) (452,397) Nonoperating funds utilized ...... (1,018,029) (619,301) Total nonoperating activities and pledges (89,469) (450,201)

Increase (Decrease) in net assets ...... (174,290) (910,942) Net assets at beginning of year...... 7,721,210 8,632,152 Net assets at end of year...... $7,546,920 $7,721,210

36 Statement of Financial Position As of June 30, 2002 2002 2001 Assets Cash and cash equivalents ...... $ 611,410 $ 968,189 Investments ...... 5,952,872 5,363,296 Accrued interest ...... Accounts receivable ...... 98,886 198,508 Government grants receivable ...... 1,000,846 831,491 Pledges and bequests receivable ...... 192,700 578,537 Prepaid expenses ...... 2,561 4,110 Net property and equipment ...... 91,001 98,717 Office rental deposit ...... 11,324 11,112 Beneficial interest in perpetual trust ...... 15,594 33,702 Total assets 7,977,194 8,087,662 Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses ...... 328,685 275,714 Annuities payable...... 101,589 90,738 Total liabilities 430,274 366,452 Net assets Unrestricted...... 6,552,854 6,614,848 Temporarily restricted ...... 791,890 1,016,862 Permanently restricted ...... 202,176 89,500 Total net assets 7,546,920 7,721,210 Total liabilities and net assets $7,977,194 $8,087,662

Total Expenses Total Operating Revenues $9,393,821 $9,309,000 9% 11% Nonoperating income Fundraising utilized 8% 34% 2% Finance and Heartlands Other income administration

10% Education

5% 29% Field operations Individuals

10% Program management and technical design 52% 6% 24% Government Corporation and Conservation enterprise grants and foundations contracts 37 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Our deepest appreciation to everyone who supported AWF during the period between July 1, 2001, and June 30, 2002. Thanks to your generosity, AWF is able to strengthen and extend its efforts to protect African wildlife and their habitats. While space does not allow us to list all donors, please know we are grateful to each and every friend of AWF.

HEARTLAND PARTNERS Fred Krehbiel George & Barbara Dechet Alice P. Neuhauser & Grinnel Burke Rachel L. Mellon Ted & Mary Navarré Moore Janet R. Demmler Thomas R. Conroy H. Keller Burke Charitable Fund George W. Meyer $100,000 and above Lynn Nichols & Jim Gilchrist Don and Jan Carl D. Newton William W. Burnham Fred C. Meyers Mr. & Mrs. Matthew T. Weir Brian O’Hara Patricia A. Donahue Heidi Nitze Marilyn J. Busby Beth A. Montes Earth Share Philip Osborne Louise I. Doyle JoAnne Overleese M.D. Sharon Calhoun Beverly B. Moor Dr. & Mrs. James L. Foght Mr. & Mrs. William P. Richards, Jr. Richard H. Driehaus Janet P. Owen Jay H. Calvert James J. Moore David H. Koch Charitable Patrick B. Sands Clifford Dukes The Oxbridge Group, Ltd. Catherine Caneau Lewis J. Moorman Foundation Satter Family Foundation Drs. Wilfried & Gisela Eckhardt Lavonne Painter Judith L. Carlson David B. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. David Thomson Mr. K. Seshadri Henry W. Edgell Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Leslie Carothers Ann Morris CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Wilson Mr. & Mrs. William Edison Liselotte Paulson Dan W. Catlin J. M. Morris Gertrude B. Emerson Mr. & Mrs. John C. Pritzlaff, Jr. Dorothy K. Cinquemani Kenneth F. Mountcastle, Jr. $50,000 to $99,999 $2,500 to $4,999 Linda L. Evans Claire Proffitt Julie A. Clayman Kelly A. Moylan The Howard G. Buffett Foundation The Bedminster Fund Mr. Morris Evans Mr. & Mrs. Parker S. Quillen Mary M. Clise Mr. & Mrs. John Murtfeldt William H. Donner Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Bloom Bruce Faerber William Ramsay Toni Cloninger Dale R. Nance Randolph K. Luskey Carol L. Bruen Robert F. Fairchild Judy Rasmuson Eugene C. Coan James Nystrom The Rockefeller Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Tom R. Casselman Janice P. Farrell Bayard Rea Ronald Cohen Nancy O. Rourke Douglas C. Walker Mr. & Mrs. William B. Chappell Beth C. Fascitelli Marie W. Ridder Community Foundation of Elizabeth W. Oberdorfer Walt Disney World Company Elena Citkowitz Frederick S. Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Frank Ritchey Jackson Hole Meaveen O’Connor Dr. J. Donald Wheat The Samuel E. & Hilda S. Duff Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Fisk Eleanor Roach Bradford Coupe William Osborn Trust James Flori Mr. & Mrs. T. Gary Rogers Francis H. Craighill C. W. E. Paine $25,000 to $49,999 Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Emmons Carolyn N. & Jean Fraley George W. Rosborough Peter Crary Barbara Parkening Arcus Foundation Averell H. Fisk Mr. & Mrs. J. Lawrence Frank Claire Rosenzweig Elizabeth Jones Darley Pamela M. Pearson Joe & Joan Cullman Reginald H. Fullerton, Jr. Clayton F. Freiheit Mrs. Willard G. Rouse III James A. Davidson Frederick D. Petrie Leslie Devereaux Charles C. Gates Carol Frick John & Lisa Runyon Robert P. Davis Raymond D. Picciano The Regina B. Frankenberg William Goldman Mitchell Fromm Harold A. Schessler Steven Dixon Judith Pickersgill Foundation Nancy J. Hamilton Pika Fund Lylah M. Schieck Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Dohmen Louis B. Pieper, Jr. Christine Hemrick Mrs. John A. Harvey Oliver M. Gale Mrs. J. Vincent Schlegel Theodore S. Donaldson Nuri Pierce Dennis & Connie Keller John H. Heminway, Jr. Elizabeth B. Garland Elinor V. Schmidt L. Dorfman Alain Pinon The Leslie Fund The Keller Family Foundation Joyce A. Godwin Irene & Jeffrey Schwall John F. Dorn Ann Pitman Peter & Eleanor Nalle Knox Family Foundation Patricia A. Gorman Charles Scott Mr. & Mrs. Gerry Doubleday Mary Portelly Jane & Paul A. Schosberg Ms. Hallam J. Koons Lorraine Grace Mr. & Mrs. N. S. Seastedt Thomas M. Duffy James L. Reinicker Frances A. Velay Rosemary and Ted Lassiter Alice & Henry Graefe Ellen Segal and Renee Hersey The Edwards Family Dean Remington West Foundation Foundation Doris G. Griffith Sandra P. Seidenfeld Paul Elicker Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Rich, Jr. Wiancko Family Donor Advised Robin Lloyd Mrs. Landis B. Gullett Mrs. Walter R. Spofford Barton L. Faber Beverly S. Ridgely Fund of the Community Mr. & Mrs. John H. Norris Richard & Kathlene Guth The Stans Foundation Eleanor S. Fenton Gerald B. Rigg Foundation of Jackson Hole Victoria J. Rideout Heather & Paul Haaga William Stein Charitable Fund of James T. Field Elizabeth Rogers PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE Henry M. Rines Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Haber the Kalamazoo Foundation Michael J. Foland Will Royer Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Sabin Maureen Hackett Frances W. Stevenson Lorie A. Frankovic Jacqueline S. Russell $10,000 to $24,999 The San Diego Foundation Hamill Family Foundation The Stewart Foundation Lynn Friesen Kenneth J. Ryan Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Adonai Foundation Fund Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hamm Mr. & Mrs. George Strauss William A. Galison Takako Sato Mr. & Mrs. Zohar Ben-Dov at the recommendation Dr. & Mrs. Alan D. Harley Scott Struthers Martha H. Gantsoudes Arielle Schechter Crandall C. Bowles of Scott & Marline Pallais William R. Harman Catherine G. Symchych Nancy Gilbert Arthur M. Scheid The Sidney S. Byers Charitable Don & Estelle Shay Brian N. Hebeisen Louis F. Tagliatela Wayne Glaser Christina Sekaer Trust Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey M. Spatz Mr. & Mrs. Peter Heydon Bob C. Taylor Carlyn E. Goettsch B. J. Shinn Mr. & Mrs. Donald Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Melville Straus Dorothy S. Hines Mrs. B. W. Thoron Andrew Goldberg Fred W. Shirley David Davis Susan M. West Herbert Horvitz Richard C. Timm Robert Goodman Craig Sholley & Lisa Stevens Mrs. Robert V. Engel Mr. & Mrs. James W. Hovey William C. Tost Barbara W. Graham Mrs. Robert V. Sibert Evergreen Fund $1,000 to $2,499 Mrs. Philip Hulitar Jean Touroff Nancy H. Green Philip R. Siegelbaum Fair Play Foundation ACS Data Line, LP Anna Jeffrey Mr. & Mrs. Russell Train Ruth C. Greenberg G. H. Singer Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Folger David & Sharman Altshuler Daniel & Lane Jones Dorothy C. Treisman Helen K. Groves Murray Slatkin Caroline Gabel Amon G. Carter Foundation George A. Kahrl Mr. & Mrs. David P. Vanderveen Herbert W. Gullquist Mr. and Mrs. Robert Slatkin The Eugene Garfield Foundation Mrs. Robert Amory, Jr. Drs. C. Neil & Elizabeth Kay Julius Walthall Vicki A. Hall Ricca Slone Avis S. Goodwin Oliver Aspegren Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee III Carlota Webster Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC Jeffrey Sloss The Hon. & Mrs. William C. Harrop Kenneth Auchincloss Mrs. Walter P. Keith Jean Werts Romayne A. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Smith The Tim & Karen Hixon Barbara Babcock Helen F. Kelbert Frederick J. Weyerhaeuser Norris C. Hekimian Angus F. Smith Foundation Jean H. Bankier Brooks Kelley Mr. & Mrs. Bill D. Wigger J. W. Hershey Frederick M. Smith Robert E. Hungate Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bateman Eva D. Kern Alec Wildenstein Marie Hertzig Gary B. Smith William E. James Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Bates Mr. C. S. Kriegh & Dr. Pamela S. Mireille Wilkinson Wulf Hirschfield Jay W. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. McIntosh IV Jeffry W. Baum Gronemeyer Mr. & Mrs. Frederick F. Williams Robert D. Hoel Stephen S. Smith Mr. & Mrs. William F. Miller Connie Beacom Jeffrey Krinsk Linda P. Williams James C. Holcomb Charlene T. Snow Anne B. Mize Mrs. Lucy Wilson Benson Peter & Deborah Lamm Dr. & Mrs. John A. Wilson B. E. Horner Nicki Spillane Gordon & Betty Moore Patrick J. Bergin The Allene & Jerome Lapides Mr. & Mrs. John H. T. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hoyt Martha Steenstrup Michael J. Piuze Blank Park Zoo Foundation John Winn Kimberly M. Hughes Shelby J. Stifle The Robertson Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Don B. Blenko, Jr. Philip A. Lathrap Janet C. Woodward Jennifer Huntington David M. Strelneck Mr. & Mrs. Stuart T. Saunders, Jr. John & Linda Bohlsen Belina L. Lazzar Eleanora M. Worth Yvonne E. Ide Stanley Studer Shared Earth Foundation Eunice M. Borman Cynthia Leary Mrs. Gordon Wright Behnaz Jalali Donna M. Swayze The William B. Stokely Jr. Mena & David Boulanger Barbara Lee R. Michael Wright Thomas I. Jensen Gene T. Sykes Foundation McLean Bowman Cheryl & Kevin Leslie Lisa Yano Robert M. Johnson Warren S. Tarmas Mr. & Mrs. Barry R. Sullivan Henry R. Breck Carla Buck & Jack Levy Montague Yudelman Harriet A. Karkut David G. Thomason The Weiler Foundation Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Mel Levy Nathaniel M. Zilkha Sondra Karp Anna D. Tilgham BAOBAB SOCIETY Suzanne & Bob Brock Eleanor N. Lewis Dorothy Kelleher Sally S. Tongren John S. Brown Jennifer Loggie $500 to $999 Linda Kiger Christopher D. Tower The Baobab Society honors Mrs. Randolph Brown Carol Lushear Abiliti Solutions, Inc. Layton E. King Mrs. Clyde Trees those individuals who support the Mr. & Mrs. C. Frederick Buechner Sharon Lyon Christina Allen Robert N. Kohman Triangle Community Foundation African Wildlife Foundation with Maynard P. Buehler Mr. & Mrs. John W. Madigan Anton Allen Joelle K. Kornell David Tubbs annual gifts of $1,000 to $9,999. Mr. & Mrs. George R. Bunn, Jr. John Malcolm Anonymous Katharine Kosmak Aaron Turkewitz The baobab tree, a source of Kathryn E. Cade Brian C. Malk Elinor M. Aregger Barbara Koval Karleen Turnbull moisture, food and shelter to William B. Campbell Ann Louise Mapes Janet Asimov Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kruger Mary Utsinger the inhabitants of Africa’s arid William D. Carlebach Marks Family Charitable Trust Barbara Atwood Susan Krupnik Sally K. Wade plains, is an apt symbol for those Vera L. Carlson Gary & Patricia Marshall Jeanne C. Ault Leonard M. Kurz Jeptha H. Wade individuals who sustain AWF’s John & Theresa Cederholm George G. Matthews Robert Avery John D. Lamb Eugene Walton conservation efforts. Jean Cinader Jean D. Matusz Samuel L. Barker William M. Lamont Donald E. Way Clara G. Cist Nancy McDaniel Phyllis Barlow Robert Lande Worthy D. Wiles $5,000 to $9,999 Christina Clayton & W. Wallace McDowell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richmond S. Bates W. M. Large Anita Winsor-Edwards AFTA Associates Stanley Kolber Katharine K. McLane Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Benedict Mr. & Mrs. Larry T. Lee Elizabeth C. Winter Anonymous Barbara Clements Richard Melsheimer Fred Blackwood Roxanne W. Levy Jim Withers Constance H. Bishop Foundation D. Cockrell Daniel Miklovic Harry Joseph Blumenthal, Jr. Ruby W. Linn Mr. John J. Zanetti Howard P. Brokaw James C. Converse & Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Miller Barbara Bodenheimer Stacy B. Lloyd Mr. & Mrs. A. A. Burnand Amy Katzman Kristie Miller Mr. & Mrs. E.U. Curtis Bohlen Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd KILIMANJARO SOCIETY Dr. David Challinor Joyce B. Correll Dorothy D. Moller James E. Bramsen Ira Lobis The African Wildlife Foundation is Mr. & Mrs. Russell Cowles II Anne Galloway Curtis Donna Moskow Frances C. Braxton David Lukens pleased to honor members of the Deutsche Bank Anne Cusic—Tracks/USA James E. Murphy Ann G. Brown Stevenson McIlvaine & Kilimanjaro Society, a group of Dale F. Dorn Mary A. Dahlgren Mr. & Mrs. James Nelson David Brown Penelope Breese extraordinary supporters who Gelman, Roseberg, and Freedman William D. Dana, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ofer Nemirovsky Maryann Bugas David McMahon have included our organization in Mr. & Mrs. Judson C. Green Mr. Pierre De Villiers Marc Nerem James S. Bugg Sally McVeigh their wills or in other estate or Torrence M. Hunt

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envision children, no matter how far Barbara Babcock, who stars in the ahead in the future, having the opportunity new TV series “Pasadena,” is a highly II have had to be observed by a silverback respected character actress. She gorilla—not through the bars of a cage, but received an Emmy Award for her because he chose to stop and turn back on portrayal of Grace Gardner on the police the trail to look at me. drama “Hill Street Blues” and was I envision children being able to know, nominated for a second Emmy for her in their bodies and not just intellectually work on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.” through a book, the power of a family of Ms. Babcock has appeared as a elephants in the bush on its own terms. series regular in “The Law and Harry I envision our species, as well as all McGraw” opposite Jerry Orbach, and species whose habitat is Africa, continuing has guest-starred on numerous series, to have in the next millennium and the including “Frasier,” “The Golden Girls,” millennium to follow the forests, the bush, “Cheers,” “China Beach,” “Taxi” and the mountains and the rivers, which have nourished us all in ways well beyond the the original “Star Trek.” physical. Ms. Babcock also has more than I envision children knowing, for as long as there are children on this planet, the 30 feature films to her credit, including wonder of African wildlife in the wild. “Space Cowboys,” “Far and Away,” That is why I am giving: to keep the vision alive. “Bang the Drum Slowly” and “Lords of Discipline.” Thank you, Barbara, for your commitment to our mission!

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Federal Campaign (CFC), you can contribute to Life income gifts such as charitable gift annuities AWF through payroll deductions. Our CFC number and charitable remainder trusts offer many opportu- is 919. In addition, many employers will match your nities for you to make a gift to AWF, receive fixed gift, enabling you to double or even triple your contri- or variable income payments and often realize bution. Ask your employer for a matching gift appli- significant tax benefits. Funded with cash, appreciat- cation form, and send it with your contribution. ed securities or real estate, they can be used to plan for retirement, care for elderly relatives or cover BEQUESTS AND PLANNED GIFTS. AW F offers educational expenses. (Note: AWF may not be able numerous opportunities for caring supporters to pro- to offer gift annuities in all states.) vide for the future of Africa’s wildlife while meeting We encourage you to explore the opportunities and personal estate and financial goals at the same time. benefits of planned charitable gifts with your financial The most popular options are bequests and life adviser. For more information, please contact the income gifts such as charitable remainder trusts and Gift Planning Officer, African Wildlife Foundation, charitable gift annuities. 1400 16th St., N.W., Suite 120, Washington, D.C. Bequests are easy to arrange and provide for AWF’s 20036, 202-939-3333, toll-free 888-494-5354, or e-mail vital program work in perpetuity. Create a living lega- [email protected]. cy of elephants, mountain gorillas, lions, rhinos and By naming AWF in your will or through your other precious creatures by naming AWF as a benefici- estate or other financial plans, you will be invited ary in your will, trust, life insurance policy or retire- to join our Kilimanjaro Society. If you already qualify ment plan. If you wish to make a bequest to AWF, we as a member and wish to join, please contact us. suggest the following language: “I hereby give ______The African Wildlife Foundation is a nonprofit (specific cash amount, securities, percentage or resid- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation. AWF’s IRS tax uary share) to the African Wildlife Foundation, a ID number is 52-0781390. All contributions to 501(c)(3) charitable corporation incorporated in the the Foundation are tax-deductible to the extent District of Columbia and presently having offices at allowed by law. 1400 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.”

40 PEOPLE BEHIND THE PROGRAMS

financial plans. Bequests and Mr. & Mrs. John H. Norris ExxonMobil Foundation Office of the President Doris W. Murimi, Finance David Sumba, Monitoring and planned gifts provide for AWF’s Dr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Peacock Firstar Foundation Patrick J. Bergin, Ph.D., President Manager Evaluation Project Officer vital program work in perpetuity. Jon & Analee Perica Gartner, Inc. and CEO, Washington Center Polly W. Mwangi, Human Future generations of elephants, Harriet-Anne Duell Pierson General Re Corp. Matching Gift Helen W. Gichohi, Ph.D., Resources Administrator Kasane Office mountain gorillas, lions, rhinos Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Pollock IBM Matching Grants Program Vice President for Program, Daniel Njoroge, Finance Officer Henry Mwima, Head of Center and other precious creatures will Peggy N. Jackson Prager ING Corp. Nairobi Center Jane N. Njoroge, Finance and Coordinator become a living legacy of our Kathy D. Preziosi JP Morgan Chase Foundation Thomas W. Nichols, Vice Support Officer Leonard Dikobe, Project Officer members’ farsighted generosity. Margaret C. Reardon Matching Gift Program President for Operation and Rachel Oketch, Accounting Shirley Dikole, Receptionist John R. Routley Leo Burnett Company, Inc. CFO, Washington Center Assistant, IGCP Kingsley Gofhamodimo, Senior Anonymous (34) Frank J. Rus, Jr. Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation Eugene Rutagarama, Program Enterprise Officer Aileen Titus Allen Jacqueline S. Russell Microsoft Matching Gifts Arusha Center Manager, IGCP Lunza Mosweu, Office Assistant Jeane Ann Allen Mr. Hassan A. Sachedina Program James Kahurananga, Ph.D., Liz Macfie, Program Manager, Mary P. Amos Mr. Stuart T. Saunders, Jr. National Semiconductor Head of Center and Coordinator IGCP Harare Office Janet E. Armstrong Irene & Jeffrey Schwall Newsweek Matching Gifts Nuru Abdula, Gardener Tirus Wainaina, Library Assistant Isidore Gwashure, Director, Barbara Babcock Margaret Seneshen Program Emmanuel Gwandu, Conservation Enterprise Anne Baer Anahit D. Shaterian Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Office Assistant Namanga Office Simon Metcalfe, Technical Joan Slatkin Barton Gloria A. Shidler Program Ally Hamadi, Driver Paul Ntiati, Coordinator Director, Southern Africa Mrs. D. G. Batch Leon & Fern Siegel Phillip Morris Matching Gift Rehema Iddi, Office Assistant Peter Mungai Alexander, Driver Mr. & Mrs. Richmond S. Bates Vivian C. Sontag Program Godson Kadallah, Driver Ben Mwongela, Senior Kariba Office Marlys J. Becker Bill & Jeanne St. Clair Reader’s Digest Jacob Karua, Driver Enterprise Officer Dora Kamweneshe, Coordinator Mrs. Jane B. Beckwith Nadine Bertin Stearns Sun Microsystems Foundation Abdul Katabaro, Senior Christine Nafula, Administration Jimmiel Mandima, Project Surya Bolom Nancy M. Stevens The Church of Jesus Christ of Administration and Finance and Finance Assistant Officer James R. & Suzanne M. Brock Ms. Shelby J. Stifle Latter Day Saints Officer Stephen Ndegwa, Driver Colonel Dellas A. Brown & Mrs. Judy B. Stonehouse The Henry J. Kaiser Family Allan Kijazi, Project Officer Lusaka Office Anita G. Brown Leila M. Straus Foundation Alfred Kikoti, Project Officer Maralal Office David Mulolani, Enterprise Mrs. Waltraud Buckland William M. Taylor The John Hancock Matching John Kombe, Guard Fiesta A. Warinwa, Landscape Services Manager Ruth E. Burkhardt Mr. Richard C. Timm Gifts Program Victoria Lyimo, Administration Conservation Officer Dr. Robert B. P. Burns & Laura A. & Wayne J. Wathen The New York Times Company and Finance Assistant Gichuhi Kariuki, Driver Livingstone Office Dr. Cynthia R. Burns Matthew & Ann Weir Foundation Salome Makange, Legal Officer Jonathan Lekanayia, Community Charles Akashambatwa, John and Theresa Cederholm Jean Werts The Times Mirror Foundation Elizabeth Mhando, Development Officer Community Development Officer William D. Crooks III Linda M. White The Washington Post Administration and Finance Johnson Mjomba, Driver Agnes Bwalya, Senior Louis Brendan Curran Mrs. Phyllis Whitney-Tabor UBS Matching Gifts Program Officer Reginah Mwangi, Administration Administration Officer Ms. Susan M. Curry R. Michael Wright United Technologies Tusime Mutabuzi, Driver and Finance Assistant Patricia Jere, Legal Officer Dianne C. Dana Mr. & Mrs. Roger Young Verizon Foundation Elibariki Mtui-Heriel, Chanda Kavwata, Administration David C. DeLaCour Senior Enterprise Officer Washington Center and Finance Assistant Joyce Dobkins IN MEMORIAM PUBLIC AND Davis S. Mziray, Driver Carleena Allen, Senior Staff Linda Moonga, Receptionist Albert & Eleanor Engler We honor in memoriam the INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT Raphael Ole Mako, Accountant Nicholas Mulemena, Accounts S. Edel Finzer following AWF supporters whose Biodiversity Support Program Project Officer Elvira Beckner, Office and Assistant Barbara L. Flowers bequests and gifts in remem- British Government, Department Hassan Sachedina, Information Systems Manager Victor Mwengwe, Driver Ms. Connie F. Frazier brance are providing vital pro- of International Development Senior Program Officer Jeffrey Chrisfield, Accounting Melanie G. Fredericks gram support in perpetuity: Cooperative for Assistance and Lucas Silim, Driver Manager Trustees Paul & Luanne Gagliano Relief Everywhere Abu-baker Wandera, Lynn Foden, Program Stuart T. Saunders, Jr., Chair Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Garard Janet P. Bosworth (CARE)–Zambia M&E Project Officer Development Officer Patrick J. Bergin, Ph.D., President Jane W. Gaston Ethelyn D. Dahl European Union Joseph Koimere, Game Scout Katharine Frohardt, Program Victoria Leslie, Secretary Lovelle Gibson Melba L. Deidrick Fauna and Flora International Tiplit Mkaine, Game Scout Technical Director Douglas C. Walker, Treasurer Susan M. Gonzalez Virginia M. DeLoney United States Agency for Semetei Ngauwo, Game Scout Moses N. Kanene, Marketing Crandall C. Bowles Avis S. Goodwin Marjorie A. DeVlieg International Development Lemidia Orkine, Game Scout Specialist Wendy M. Breck M. M. Graff Beverly Gile United States Department Lengiro Orngiro, Game Scout Ronessa Kirby, Receptionist/ George R. Bunn, Jr. Carroll A. Hodges Virginia A. Leslie of the Interior Staff Assistant Stephen D. Cashin Mrs. William A. Inskeep Audrey O’Brien United States Fish and Kampala Center Kate Mathews, Director of David Challinor Kathryn C. Johnson & Irene Ross Wildlife Service Elizabeth Chadri, Head of Center Membership Dale F. (Tucker) Dorn Scott R. Berry Walter L. Schwartz World Wide Fund for Nature and CSC Manager Felix Otieno, Assistant to the James L. Foght, Ph.D. Pauline E. Kayes Janice A. Stupel Sandra Birungi, Office Assistant President Judson C. Green Mary E. Kent Darcia Weiss CONTRIBUTED SERVICES Innocent Garakumbe, Elodie Sampéré, Leila S. Green Eva D. Kern Mary Helen Williamson Art for the Animals Senior Enterprise Offer Communications Officer Christine Hemrick Ms. Hallam J. Koons Gifts in Memory of James Balog Catherine Mutesi, Receptionist Craig Sholley, Program William E. (Wilber) James Kenneth A. Kreinheder Darryl Behrman Leo Burnett U.S.A. Patrick Mutumba, Driver Development Officer Dennis J. Keller Kirk & Marjorie E. Lawton Gifts in Memory of Forum One Communications Helga Rainer, Country Program Julie Thompson, Budget Robin Lloyd Alice Leighty Fred R. Crofoot Corporation Officer, IGCP, Uganda Manager Wariara Mbugua Kevin & Cheryl Leslie Gifts in Memory of Framewoods of Topeka Harry Van Der Linde, Program Henry P. McIntosh IV Joyce Leyland Patrick Hamby Huntsinger and Jeffer Virunga Officer Anne B. Mize, Ph.D. George Loukides & Gifts in Memory of Jane Ottenberg & Richard Stephen Asuma, Field Officer, Annika Vieira, Program Eleanor G. Nalle Sam M. Tomlin Martin Matthews Creighton, The Magazine Group IGCP, Uganda Development Officer John H. Norris Denise Lowe Gifts in Memory of Jeffrey Short Turner & Turner, LLP Maryke Gray, Monitoring and Amy Wiedemann, Program Mamphela A. Ramphele, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Dwight E. Lowell II Gifts in Memory of Washburn University Evaluation Officer Development Officer Jacqueline S. Russell Malcolm & Trish Lund Janine Sprowls Wilbur Kaire, Field Support William Winslow, Director of Paul A. Schosberg Carol Lushear SPECIAL THANKS Officer, IGCP, Rwanda Finance Lisa M. Stevens Capt. & Mrs. Earl E. Maxfield, Jr. MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM Zohar and Lisa Ben-Dov Anecto Kayitare, Project Officer, Michael Wynne, Program Barry R. Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. McIntosh IV Adobe Systems Inc. Mark Boulton IGCP, Rwanda Development Administrator David Thomson Dorris W. Mediate American Express Foundation Chris Johns Mark Mwine, Senior Enterprise Susan Wyse, Accounting Matthew T. Weir Sam & Sylvia Messin Aspect Matching Gifts Program Cardo Kleberg Officer, Rwanda Assistant Gordon Wilson Patricia L. Minnick Black & Decker Blaine Philips Mrs. Jo A. Moore BP Amoco Foundation Craig Sholley Nairobi Center White River Center Trustees Emeriti Miss Phyllis F. Mount BP Foundation David & Katherine Thomson Philip Muruthi, Ph.D., Head of Patrick Chauke, Senior Arthur W. Arundel Ms. Mary B. Napoli Compaq Matching Gifts Program Art Wolfe Center and Sally Patterson Enterprise Officer E.U. Curtis Bohlen Ronald K. & Victoria M. Neill Doris Duke Foundation Chief Scientist Promise Chibi, Office Assistant Joan Donner Peter Chira, Driver/Office Magdalene Olivier, John H. Heminway Assistant Administration and Finance George C. Hixon Marianne Dang’ana, Program Officer Richard M. Jackson Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations. His Assistant Jeremiah Machavi, Community Sally Pingree stunning images interpret and record the world’s fast-disappearing wildlife, Christopher Davey, Director, Conservation Officer Russell E. Train Program Design, EA Lamson Maluleke, Community landscapes and native cultures, and his photographs are recognized Joanna Elliott, Technical Development Officer Project Management throughout the world for their mastery of color, composition and perspec- Director, Europe Freddy Mathabela, Field Elodie Sampéré, AWF tive. Wolfe has taken an estimated one million images and has published Nyokabi Gitahi, Legal Associate Assistant more than 50 books, including The Living Wild, which has sold more than Adam Henson, Program Officer Design Rashid Kanyau, Driver/Office Victoria Falls Center Kevin Hambel, 50,000 copies and has won awards from prominent design publications. Assistant Charles Govo, Senior The Magazine Group Wolfe is a member of Canon’s elite list of renowned photographers, “Explorers of Light,” and Ezekiel N. King’ola, Office Administrative Officer Fujifilm’s Talent Team. Magazines around the world publish his photographs and stories. Manager Faith Manthenge, Receptionist Editorial A catalog of Wolfe’s work is available at www.ArtWolfe.com. Art Wolfe has made his Declyne Likombe, Receptionist Maureen Mashingaidze, Finance Sharon K. Congdon, Annette Lanjouw, Ph.D., and Administration Assistant The Magazine Group photographs available pro bono to AWF for the 2002 Annual Report. Director, IGCP Nyikavanhu Munodawafa, Alfred Mburu, Office Assistant Community Development Officer Production Management Photography credits — AWF: 2, 3, 9, 10, 24; Marc Boulton: 1, 17; Ricardo Kleberg: 6 (wild dog, Teresiah Mburu, Office Assistant George Ndlovu, Office Assistant Soliteir Jaeger, Limpopo Heartland); Craig R. Sholley: Cover, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 40; James Mithamo, LAN Nesbert Samu, Manager The Magazine Group Administrator Thinkwell Sangweni, Driver Art Wolfe: Inside front cover, 4, 8, 12, 30, 34.

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