African Wildlife

Foundation
African Wildlife
Foundation
- The African Wildlife Leadership
Foundation (AWLF) was founded in
1961 by Russell E. Train, a wealthy
judge and hunter

- Created to promote the protection

of the animals native to Africa

- The African headquarters promotes

the idea that Africans themselves
are best able to protect the wildlife
of their continent.
Mission & Vision
Values
- Balance
- Africans and African
leadership
- Empowerment
- Inclusivity
- Innovation
Wildlife
Conservation
Stop the Killing
- Training and equipping wildlife rangers

- Ecological monitoring allows rapid

response to urgent wildlife threats

- Empowering local communities through

conservation.
Stop the
Trafficking
- Deploying sniffer dogs to intercept
smuggled wildlife products

- Streamlining wildlife crime prosecution,

law enforcement, and investigation

- Ensuring canine evidence contributes to

convictions
Stop the Demand
- Revealing the truth behind wildlife
products

- Destroying stocks of elephant ivory and

rhino horn

- Mobilizing African and Chinese

influencers to incorporate conservation
into development
Land &
Habitat
Protection
 Climate Change
- Protecting Africa’s precious
forests

- Introducing climate-smart
agriculture and sustainable
energy solutions

- Empowering communities to
secure their water sources.
 Land-Use Planning
- Developing planning frameworks to
meet local land-use needs

- Facilitating stakeholder
participation in land-use planning

- Set aside safe areas for wildlife to

travel
Protected Area Expansion
and Management
- Donating land to governments and
protected area authorities
- Empowering landowners to protect
priority wildlife habitat
- Co-managing protected areas to
promote biodiversity
- Tackling the protected area funding
gap
- Providing financial and technical
support for authorities
Community
Empowerment
Community
Conservation
- Training community wildlife scouts
to leverage local knowledge for
conservation

- Restoring degraded
agro-ecological zones and
depleted water sources
Impact Investing

- Developing agricultural solutions that

limit agricultural sprawl while
increasing profits for farmers

- Connecting marginalized areas with

the economic benefits of sustainable
tourism

- Creating experiences with nature to

inspire environmental stewardship
Livelihood Development

- Scaling up innovative sustainable

nature-based initiatives

- Empowering rural women to build,

manage, and grow alternative
businesses

- Facilitating local ownership of

sustainable tourism enterprises
Primary Education

- Building quality primary schools in

landscapes with high conservation
value

- Embedding conservation and

environmental education into
learning activities

- Attracting the best teachers

Sustainable Agriculture

- Reorienting small-scale farming to

sustain local economic growth restore
depleted landscapes

- Empowering pastoralist communities

to manage livestock and grazing land

- Securing financial stability through

fishing management
Sustainable Tourism

- Improving economic returns from

ecolodges on communal land

- Sustainable tourism partnerships

bring revenue and social services
to communities
Global
Leadership
Economic Development

- Optimizing development for

wildlife and people

- Catalyzing wildlife-friendly
development

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Government
Engagement

- Making the case for wildlife

and wildlands

- Supporting African
development agendas
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Youth Engagement

- Building a pipeline of young

African conservation leaders

- Increasing exposure to
conservation jobs and
opportunities

- Strengthening strategic youth

networks
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 Contact

African Wildlife Foundation is headquartered in

Nairobi, Kenya, with offices in the United States of
America, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Tanzania,
Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Niger.

Email: africanwildlife@awf.org
Website: https://www.awf.org/
 Resources
https://www.awf.org/