We at the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) are pleased to announce the release of our Final Technical Report for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Cooperative Agreement RLA-A-00-07-00043-00, which concluded on March 31, 2015. Over the seven-and-a-half-year life of…
Vultures provide critical ecosystem services, yet populations of many vulture species have collapsed worldwide. In Africa, vultures face a range of threats, most significantly poisoning and trade in traditional medicines. In this talk, The Peregrine Fund’s Darcy Ogada will present…
The ABCG Climate Change Adaptation Task Team (comprising staff from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy,Wildlife Conservation Society and World Wildlife Fund) presented its findings from qualitative research undertaken through interviews and focus groups in selected African communities in which ABCG Group members work.  Far removed from decision-making…
Rare, in partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund and the University of California, Santa Barbara, is implementing its first global initiative: Fish Forever. The Fish Forever partnership aims to catalyze a global movement of near-shore fisheries reform in the developing…
Currently, poaching is devastating elephant populations across Africa, especially in DR Congo. Their numbers have been in constant decline due to several factors, key among them the lack of effective law enforcement across the country in the wildlife sector and…
Poaching and trafficking of Africa's wildlife is escalating to unsustainable crisis proportions. Dr. Muruthi's presentation highlighted how the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and partners are responding under three key areas—Stop the Killing, Stop the Trafficking, and Stop the Demand. In…
It's no news that deforestation is a driver of biodiversity loss, resource degradation, and climate change. Bringing trees back is therefore essential to reversing these trends. Â TIST (The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program) has 15 years of…
In increasingly human dominated landscapes anthropogenic disturbance and mortality threatens wildlife populations from increasing isolation and subsequent interference with important biological processes such as dispersal and natural gene flow. This investigation presents the importance of connectivity, and identification of landscapes…
The Cross River gorilla is the most threatened African ape, found only in a small mountainous area on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Ten years ago the species was considered by many to be on the brink of extinction. …
This joint presentation examined new steps in Protected Area Management in the Congo Basin--using case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Gabon. Forest elephants and buffalo at a beach in Gabon. Photo: Bas Verhage /WWF. The…
