Continue reading »]]> APW is very pleased to announce that we have met our 2011 goal of 100 Living Walls installed in the Maasai Steppe. These Living Walls are now protecting approximately 25,000 head of livestock on a nightly basis and positively impacting nearly 2000 Maasai community members. With livestock safe at night, reduced lion-livestock conflict means better outcomes for the big cats. It’s a win-win-win scenario that keeps cattle safe from lions, lions out of the way of Maasai spears and local habitat intact. Many thank to all our partners, supporters and local community members who helped us to achieve this important milestone for lion conservation and the improved coexistence of people and big cats. We would like to extend special recognition to the Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation, the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund and the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative for their critical support of this work. Read more about APW’s Living Walls.

Continue reading »]]> APW’s 2012 Noloholo Environmental Scholars have just been announced.  We have four new scholars this year bringing us to a total of 12 scholars with full, six-year scholarships to private school.  Our scholars need more sponsors. Please consider contributing to the scholarship fund. For more information, contact APW at info@afrpw.org or donate now and indicate Noloholo Environmental Scholarship Fund.

Continue reading »]]> Please make a gift to APW’s Annual Fund Campaign and help Africa’s people and wildlife to coexist! To read about our accomplishments this year and our goals for the coming year, please read our annual letter or make a donation right now. Thank you!

Continue reading »]]> APW’s annual field trips to Tarangire National Park for local sixth grade students in the Maasai Steppe were a great success. Lions were sighted daily keeping our record of big cats sightings for kids at 100%! To see more photos, visit our Tarangire National Park Trips 2011 album on Facebook

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Natural Resource Action Planning

APW recently introduced natural resource management action planning to the Maasai Steppe. In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, a three day workshop was held for 37 community members of Loibor Siret village. By the end of the workshop, seven strategies including improved water, livestock and wildlife management were identified by the participants for action. A new committee, called Reto-o-Reto or “interdependency” in Maa, was established to move the initiative forward.

Continue reading »]]> Thanks to the support of Stephen Gold and the WCN Solar Project, we have finally achieved 24 hour power at the Noloholo Environmental Center. With our large solar power installation in place, we can now run our offices and classroom without spending critical funds on fuel, relieving all of us of the drone of the generator. We are very grateful for this important donation to our center!

Continue reading »]]> APW’s environmental summer camp kicks off today at the Noloholo Environmental Center with our first camp of the season. 20 Maasai primary schoolchildren and 4 Noloholo Environmental Scholars will participate in a week of classroom and field activities focusing on wildlife and natural resources and emphasizing an exciting learning environment. For updates, visit our facebook and blog pages.