| CFC Number |
| 11219 |
| Address |
1400 16th St. NW, Suite 120 |
| Phone |
| 202-939-3331 |
| Fax |
| 202-939-3332 |
| AfricanWildlife@AWF.org |
| Website |
| www.AWF.org |
| % spent on Administration and Fundraising |
| 14.9% |
| Year founded |
| 1961 |
African Wildlife Foundation Authority on African wildlife dedicated to advancing endangered species research, habitat preservation, conservation enterprise and educational opportunities to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever.
Why do we exist? African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever. AWF is the longest serving international conservation organization working solely in Africa. For over forty years AWF has fostered Africa-led approaches to building partnerships, tools and capacity for conservation. AWF now has 125 staff --more than 80% are African citizens – working from a network of eleven field offices in Africa and one support and fundraising office in Washington, DC. AWF is highly regarded for its Africa-centered philosophy and practical approach to conservation, as well as its strong capacity building and science base, for innovations in working with communities, and more recently, for its private sector partnerships that leverage wildlife enterprise development and for strategic planning at the landscape level.
What have you accomplished? Currently AWF focuses its work in seven priority landscapes in Africa, known as “African Heartlands”. While work in each of these African Heartlands is at a different stage of development, AWF facilitates collaboration between diverse partners and stakeholders and implements specific programs of activities such as land use planning, applied science research, local capacity building, monitoring, private sector partnership and policy dialogue. AWF helps to integrate sustainable local economic development into conservation through support for empowerment and land use rights, participation of economically marginalized people in decision-making processes, improved governance of community institutions, and facilitating the development of community wildlife-based enterprises, often in remote and marginal areas. The landscape vision for this program is to secure the ecological integrity of unique wildlife species and forests by creating a multi-zoned protected area and wise investments in economic opportunities. AWF’s crucial work in the African Heartlands is making a difference. In the Maasai Steppe Heartland in Northern Tanzania, AWF joined two national parks, a forest reserve, a large former ranch and a number of smaller community parcels into a much larger continuous conservation landscape. In Southern Africa, fences are coming down and being moved back as more private landowners decide to use their land for wildlife and tourism rather than marginal beef production. Even in the densely populated lands of central Africa that surround mountain gorilla habitat, AWF partners have recently negotiated the purchase of small land holdings that extend the safe habitat for gorillas.
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