KENYA - HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES UNITED KINGDOM awf.org/facebook Ngong Road, Karen 1100 New Jersey Avenue SE, Ste. 900 P.O. Box 74158 awf.org/instagram P.O. Box 310, 00502 Washington, DC 20003 London SE24 4BT awf.org/twitter Nairobi Toll Free +1 888 494 5354 Phone +44 7981 183 103 [email protected] Phone +254 (0) 711 063000 Phone +1 202 939 3333 www.awf.org Fax +254 20 2765030 Fax +1 202 939 3332 Our mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa. IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT ELEPHANTS… THAT NO LONGER HAS LIONS… OR GIRAFFES. GORILLAS. CHIMPANZEES. RHINOS. CHEETAHS. These are only some of Africa’s magnificent wildlife species at risk of disappearing forever. In the last few decades alone, the world has lost more than 60 percent of forest elephants and more than 40 percent of lions. Poaching, driven by global demand, is at crisis levels. But it’s habitat loss that poses the most extensive threat AWF works across the to African wildlife. The state of rainforests in Africa and around the world is an example. Scientists estimate that African continent, protecting if current deforestation rates go unchecked, rainforests will be gone in 100 years — and most of their inhabitants wildlife and wild lands in: with them. Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic The picture is bleak, but not set in stone. In fact, change has already taken root. There is a growing consciousness of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, that thoughtful economic and infrastructure development Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, can and should incorporate conservation priorities. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) helped bring about Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe this change and works tirelessly every day to ensure a positive future for Africa’s wildlife and wild lands. TAILORED STRATEGIES FOR UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS To realize the most significant impacts, AWF takes a holistic approach, addressing threats and building on opportunities from a multitude of angles. Protecting Wildlife Conserving Land Promoting Community Well-being A Voice for Wildlife We employ a three-pronged strategy to AWF has mapped priority landscapes across the AWF projects start with people — because AWF’s operating principle, its constant fight poaching: stop the killing, stop the continent that have vital wildlife populations conservation solutions only work when owned message, is trafficking, and stop the demand. Focus and the greatest chance of conservation by those living with wildlife day in and day out. that wildlife conservation does not have to be species include elephants, rhinos, success. Within these landscapes, we promote a zero-sum game. lions and other large carnivores, giraffes, community-based solutions. CONSERVATION TOURISM: We help mountain gorillas and other great apes. build community-owned eco-lodges BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS: African PROTECTED AREA PLANNING: AWF throughout sub-Saharan Africa so tourists economies are poised for unprecedented STOP THE KILLING: Across sub- works to unite villages, parks and reserves can experience the wonder of Africa’s growth, and leaders are making Saharan Africa, AWF trains and equips in vast, cohesive landscapes with room for wildlife and wild lands while supporting significant decisions about how African rangers and eco-guards to protect humans and wildlife. We train and local economies. Lodges provide jobs and countries will manage their natural elephants, rhinos and other wildlife incentivize local communities to conserve create a significant conservation incentive. resources. At the local, regional, national populations; deploys dog-and-handler wildlife migration routes, while advancing The lodges’ community owners reinvest and pan-African levels, AWF fosters units to deter and apprehend poachers; their economic interests through revenues in local infrastructure and in relationships with key people and and supports research such as wildlife improved agriculture practices or schools. groups to ensure wildlife conservation is population surveys. alternative livelihoods such as beekeeping, part of the economic solution for the sustainable cash crops, soap making and LINKING CONSERVATION AND continent. Our goal is to help forge a STOP THE TRAFFICKING: AWF sewing. We convene community land-use EDUCATION: Children living in remote uniquely African development model places sniffer dogs and dog handlers at planning workshops to facilitate more parts of Africa often lack access to that gives wildlife and wild lands a key transportation hubs. Our Canines sustainable development, wealth creation high-quality education. AWF’s Classroom starring role on the stage that is modern for Conservation units have a 90 and food security along with conservation. Africa program refurbishes and builds Africa. percent accuracy rate and have made schools on beautiful eco-campuses. To hundreds of busts. AWF also conducts CLIMATE CHANGE: Without help attract top teachers, we provide A SEAT AT THE TABLE: In 2016, AWF trainings with prosecutors and other comprehensive measures to understand housing and professional development. entered into a partnership with the judicial employees to ensure and address the impacts of climate change, We instill conservation values by running African Union to serve as a technical appropriate justice for convicted the well-being of Africa’s wildlife and its eco-clubs and taking students on advisor to that policymaking body. This traffickers. people are in jeopardy. AWF promotes wilderness trips. In exchange for schools, agreement cements AWF’s status as the climate-smart agriculture, establishment communities agree to conserve land. conservation organization focused on STOP THE DEMAND: AWF and of forest reserves, and sustainable energy Africa and positions us to provide a partners produce celebrity-studded solutions such as fuel-efficient stoves and AGRICULTURE: AWF models green conservation perspective before policies public service announcements (PSAs) solar power. agriculture, training smallholder farmers are enacted. for the Asian market, including PSAs in climate-smart practices that produce starring former NBA star Yao Ming and high yields on small actor Jackie Chan. Surveys showed plots. We’ve also linked farmers to more these campaigns have significantly lucrative markets for their crops. In raised awareness about the illicit trade exchange, farmers participate in land-use in ivory and rhino horn. planning and watershed protection. A CONSERVATION VISION A PRAGMATIC, INCLUSIVE VOICE For nearly 60 years, the African Wildlife Foundation has been Africa’s conservation organization. AWF is uniquely positioned to promote conservation of wildlife and wild lands in modern Africa. WE PROMOTE AN AFRICAN AWF began in 1961 with a vision — to Conservation, to help develop African conservation CONSERVATION be effective and leadership as the surest way to secure a VISION sustainable, must hopeful future for wildlife. We founded be Africa-led. Today WE FIND institutions such as the College AWF is the only of African Wildlife Management, global conservation PRAGMATIC, AWF and we educated and provided Because successful wildlife protection organization that implements Africa-led INCLUSIVE believes scholarships to hundreds of students requires understanding species’ behavior strategies and programs. Our Nairobi that wildlife who went on to become scientists, and ecology, AWF also in its early years headquarters is the hub of our field SOLUTIONS and Africa’s park managers, rangers and more. sponsored scientific research, including programs, while our staff in North other Dian Fossey’s landmark mountain gorilla America, Europe and Asia play critical natural study. Today we support applied research roles in resource mobilization, strategic resources are critical to the such as species population surveys and communications, partnership development, continent’s prosperity. We see studies of human land-use patterns education and advocacy. Our staff makeup Africa’s rapid development around protected areas. is key. Of nearly 180 full-time staff members, as a challenge but also an 70% are African nationals. Our grounding in As AWF grew, we leveraged our opportunity to implement Africa opens doors. We have many unique proven conservation solutions resources to raise global conservation and critically important partnerships, awareness through ad campaigns and develop new approaches including one with the lead policymaking that benefit humans and wildlife. and other means. We also expanded body on the continent, the African Union. our direct species protection efforts As we have seen in countries through strategic alliances with such as Rwanda, where the conservation partners. In the 1990s, AWF initiated its large- mountain gorilla population landscape approach, selecting cross- is climbing back from near- boundary areas of exceptional natural extinction, there is nothing value for integrated interventions. The inevitable about conservation goal is to restore, protect and expand WE ARE COLLABORATIVE challenges in Africa. habitat for species that need large tracts AND COMMUNITY-DRIVEN of land. We work with governments, NGOs and communities to ensure elephants and At the end of the 20th century, a new other species have room to roam, room poaching crisis emerged. This was not to flourish. But solutions must benefit Conservation can’t be achieved like poaching of old — it was more wildlife and human communities. This single-handedly, so creative WE PROMOTE organized and ruthless. AWF had to act conservation