African Wildlife Foundation

African Wildlife Foundation is a non-governmental organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya working on nature & wildlife conservation, environment & climate, community development.

African Wildlife Foundation is an Africa-based global conservation organisation headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with a presence in Washington, DC. It works with African governments, institutions, businesses and communities to protect wildlife and wild lands and to create economic opportunities for people through African-led conservation. Its work spans landscape programmes, species protection, anti-poaching and wildlife trafficking efforts, community-led conservation and tourism, policy engagement on biodiversity finance and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, and youth leadership development. It operates across several African countries, including Kenya, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Rwanda. The organisation describes itself as Africa's oldest and largest international conservation organisation and states that it is registered as a 501(c)(3) organisation in the United States and as a registered charity in the United Kingdom and Canada.