African Wildlife Foundation

In 1961, African Wildlife Leadership Foundation, Inc., later African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), was established to focus on Africa’s unique conservation needs. This chronology highlights important steps in AWF’s growth and success for the past 50 years. The African Wildlife Foundation, together with the people of Africa, works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is the leading international conservation organization focused solely on Africa. AWF believeS that protecting Africa’s wildlife and wild landscapes is the key to the future prosperity of Africa and its people – and for over fifty years they have made it their work to help ensure that Africa’s wild resources endure. In 2014, AWF established a US $10 million Urgent Response Fund to support targeted anti-poaching projects that are protecting priority populations of elephants, rhinos and other threatened wildlife.

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