MongabayThere are nearly 9,000 inland protected areas across the African continent, covering 4.37 million square kilometers.
These protected areas are at the center of conservation policymaking by African countries hoping to safeguard nature and threatened wildlife.
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‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’
On June 13, 1959, the Waata hunter Galogalo Kafonde surrendered himself to colonial Kenya’s “Field Force,” Africa’s first militarized antipoaching unit. For centuries, the ethnic Waata had hunted elephants. Killing one was a rite of passage; unlike their neighbors, who raised and kept cows, the Waata lived off game meat and wore elephant skins. Ivory […]
