by ACF | Mar 12, 2019 | Great Apes, Wildlife News
Language, music, and art often vary between adjacent groups of people, and help us identify not only ourselves but also others. And in recent years rich debates have emerged and spawned research into culture in non-human animals. Scientists first observed chimpanzees...
by ACF | Feb 16, 2019 | Wildlife News
Pangolins, a group of unique African and Asian scaly mammals, are considered to be one of the most heavily trafficked wild mammals in the world. They are hunted and traded for their meat, scales, and other body parts, and used as traditional medicines in parts of...
by ACF | Jan 31, 2019 | Wild Dogs, Wildlife News
In 1991, a strange thing happened in the wilds of Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti, a World Heritage Site, is home to a spectacular range of carnivores, from lions to cheetahs and more. And with more than 1.5 million zebras, wildebeests and...
by ACF | Dec 7, 2018 | Great Apes
Paternal care – where fathers care for their children – is rare among mammals (that is, animals which give birth to live young). Scientists have identified more than 6,000 mammal species, but paternal care only occurs in 5 to 10% of them. Humans fall into that...
by ACF | Oct 8, 2018 | Elephants, Forest, Wildlife News
A new review paper finds that the loss of Africa’s forest elephants has broad impacts on their ecosystems, including hitting several tall tree species, which play a key role in sequestering carbon dioxide. Forest elephants disperse large seeds, keep the forest canopy...
by ACF | Sep 28, 2018 | Wildlife News
Mention wildlife on Madagascar and the first thing listeners probably picture is the island’s famed lemurs. As many people know, these unique primates are found nowhere else, and are the most endangered group of mammals in the world. But few people realize that...
by ACF | Sep 22, 2018 | Rhinos, Wildlife News
At current rates of loss to poaching, rhino species will be extinct within our lifetimes. The big problem is demand for their horn from Asia. The market for rhino horn is moving from “traditional” medicine to “investment value” as jewellery and other processed...
by ACF | Sep 5, 2018 | Forest, Habitat News
Tanzania is known for its tapestry of lush forests, expansive grasslands and tropical beaches, and abundant and diverse wildlife. Its coastal forests are part of the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa biodiversity hotspot – a place recognised for its wealth of wildlife...
by ACF | Aug 22, 2018 | Elephants, Wildlife News
Beehive fences can help improve human-elephant coexistence. By Katarzyna Nowak, University of the Free State When people cultivate food crops on or near wild lands it can be assumed that wild animals will eat them – what’s known as crop-raiding. Farms in the vicinity...
by Arend de Haas | Jul 17, 2018 | Forest, Great Apes
The highlands of South West Cameroon are a biodiversity hotspot that harbours unique but endangered species such as Cross River gorillas, chimpanzees, drill monkeys, forest elephants but also rare birds, amphibians and butterflies. The African Conservation Foundation...
by ACF | May 6, 2018 | Great Apes, Wildlife News
A study of the microbiomes of wild gorillas and chimpanzees offers insights into the evolution of the human microbiome and might even have implications for human health. The research project was led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at...
by ACF | Apr 23, 2018 | Wildlife News
Malawi Parliament last month passed new regulations that place an additional 216 species under protection. The regulations form a critical secondary law to the National Parks and Wildlife Act (NPWA), which came into effect in 2017, and which most notably increased...
by ACF | Apr 20, 2018 | Bushmeat, In Focus, Wildlife News
A new study has found that hornbills, vultures and eagles are being hunted for bushmeat in Cameroon in much greater numbers than previously thought. Researchers estimate that people living around the proposed Ebo National Park in Cameroon’s Littoral region consumed an...
by ACF | Mar 20, 2018 | Rhinos, Wildlife News
The last male northern white rhino has died in Kenya at the age of 45, on Monday 19 March, leaving only two females of his subspecies alive at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya’s Laikipia County. Sudan “was being treated for age-related complications that led to...
