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Press Briefing & Media Kit on Local Biodiversity Outlooks – Version 2
Watch the Sept. 23rd Press Briefing: Local Biodiversity Outlooks 2: Forest Peoples Programme: Ways Forward - Indigenous & Local Perspectives on Our Biodiversity Crisis. Spread awareness with this Media Kit created by Forest Peoples Programme, IIFB, Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network and Convention on Biological Diversity.
Read moreSept. 2020 News From the Field — Resilience & Building Back Better With Your Help
Sept. 2020 News From the Field — Organizational Resilience, Adaptive Leadership & Designing a Green Economy
In this newsletter, we share COVID impacts on Kenya, what we’ve learned about resilience and how we envision building back better with your crucial support. We hope you enjoy our stories from the field below including features on organizational resilience, adaptive leadership, and designing a green economy. The assistance of our international network of supporters has contributed so much to conserving wildlife, restoring ecosystems, community empowerment, education and influencing governmental policies in Kenya. We are truly grateful for your support!
Bucking the Dismal Decline in Wildlife: Amboseli Numbers are Going Up
By David Western and Victor N. Mose | Amboseli Conservation Program (ACP)
Amboseli Conservation Program’s five decades of continuous monitoring the Amboseli region shows an astonishing turnaround for wildlife after years of decline. Many species are now more abundant than forty-five years ago, a remarkable contrast to the rapid losses across Africa and around the world.
Swara: A Review of the Nairobi National Park Plan 2020-2030
By David Western
Restoration calls for good science to guide management. Nairobi National Park (NNP) was gazetted as Kenya’s first park in 1946, a far less populous era. In 1967, as a graduate student at the University of Nairobi, I watched the wealth of plains animals move from the short-cropped plains into the valleys and swamps as the season hardened, tracked by lions and cheetahs. A wildlife spectacle, the park gave tourists their first views of lions, cheetahs, giraffes, buffalos and rhinos.
International Day for Biological Diversity
To celebrate this day and our mission that is focused on conserving biodiversity in East Africa, we hope you enjoy this short video message by African Conservation Centre executive director, Lucy Waruingi. She encourages us all to reflect on our personal practices that may impact biodiversity and to invest in solutions that increase biodiversity for the benefit of all. Will you invest in ACC today?
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News From the Field – April 2020
Read this season's stories: ACC Hosts Linear Infrastructure Workshop; Training Teachers to be Conservation Patrons; Women in Conservation Fund; Students Plant Trees to Express Love for the Environment on Valentine’s Day & ACC Develops New Strategic Plan
Read moreSaving Wildlife in a Time of Coronavirus — An Address from ACC Founder & Conservationist, David Western — Nairobi, Kenya
The coronavirus poses the greatest risk to human health around the world since the Spanish flu of 1918. The pandemic is already disrupting every sector of society, from entertainment and sports to manufacturing and the health and service industries. And the worst is yet to come.
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Honoring Women in Conservation on International Women’s Day & Everyday
When local Maasai women are economically-empowered, the environment is better managed, human wildlife conflict is reduced and their families and communities achieve better livelihoods. ACC honors the women…
News From the Field — October 2019
Advising on international policy to protect endangered giraffes, working with communities to fight the climate crisis and enhance food and water security, and conserving biodiversity by restoring degraded landscapes are just a few of ACC’s recent activities!
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RFP: Black Rhino Research Fellowship with The Grumeti Fund
Black Rhino Research Fellowship RFP: The Eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) is a critically endangered subspecies restricted to Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda.
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