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African Wildlife Foundation

Conservation Agency

Washington, D. C., USA

African Wildlife Foundation (Established 1961)
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 120 , Washington , D. C. 20036 USA
Phone: 1 (202) 939-3333 Fax: 1 (202) 939-3332 E-mail: awfwash@igc.apc.org
Affiliations: International Gorilla Conservation Programme

Mission: The African Wildlife Foundation works toward building the capacity of African individuals and institutions to manage effectively their natural resources, especially wildlife and wildlife habitats.

Principal Research Programs: AWF helps build African capacity in natural resource management through training of professionals, institutional strengthening, and identifying and testing innovative solutions through flagship projects in community conservation, species and ecosystem conservation, and conservation and commerce. These are then used as a base of experience to further impact conservation by other institutions in Africa.

Training Opportunities: Educational opportunities are not available.

Key Personnel: R. Michael Wright, President; Neill Heath, Director of Development; Barbara DiPietro, Director of Finance and Administration; Katie Frohardt, Program Technical Officer; Rebecca Villareal, Communications/Public Relations Officer; Mark Stanley Price, Vice President/Director of African Operations; Rosalind Aveling, Director of Program Development; Joanna Elliott, Director of Conservation, Economics and Commerce Program; Patrick Bergin, Director of Community Conservation Program;; Elizabeth Chadri, Acting Director, Training, Institutional Development and Education Program; Philip Muruthi, Acting Director, Species and Ecosystem Program

Species Supported: "Gorilla gorilla beringei"

Associated Field Sites: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda; Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda; Parc National des Virungas, Zaire; Parc National de Volcans, Rwanda; Contact for all sites above: Annette Lanjouw, AWF Nairobi office, PO Box 48177, Nairobi, Kenya

Web Site: http://www.awf.org

Publications: "African Wildlife News" (5 times/year)

Entry created: 1998-03-30
Review requested: 2007-02-27
Entry last reviewed: 1998-10-26

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