Traditional Dance for Nature Earlier this month, our Relationships Department hosted a traditional dance competition aimed at celebrating culture while promoting wildlife conservation. Over two weeks, fourteen dance groups from communities bordering the Ikorongo – Grumeti concession...
Elephant Movement Data Provides Insights Into Conservation Challenges and Successes in the Ruaha–Rungwa Landscape Authors: Ramadhan Juma, Alfred Kikoti, Kristen D. Snyder, Eivin Røskaft, Peter S. Ranke, Han Olff, Alex Lobora, Godwell Ole Meing’ataki, Michael H. Kimaro ABSTRACT The African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red...
Shoulder to Shoulder with Wildlife Rangers Today, on Wildlife Ranger Challenge Day, we take a moment to honour the extraordinary men and women who stand on the frontlines of conservation. Rangers are far more than uniformed patrols...
Tony the Anti-Poaching Dog Retires After Eight Years Protecting Wildlife Every hero has their time in the spotlight, and for Tony, that spotlight came not on a stage, but in the dusty tracks and thick bush of...
As we look ahead to next year, three eastern black rhinos, Mizi, Kisima, and Chanua, will return to their ancestral homeland in East Africa when they arrive in northwestern Tanzania’s Ikorongo-Grumeti Game Reserve (IGGR). This moment is the culmination...
The future of wildlife begins in the classroom. There’s a powerful Swahili proverb: Mtoto umleavyo ndivyo akuavyo” “As you bring up a child, so will they become.” It’s a timeless truth, one that echoes across cultures, and one that lies at the heart...
In the battle to protect endangered species like the eastern black rhino, sometimes the most powerful ally walks on four legs and wags its tail. This September, a specially trained detection and tracking dog called Mawenzi will join the Grumeti Fund’s...
Bridging Continents: Cross‑Cultural GIS Capacity Building In a world where location influences everything, from climate change policies to wildlife conservation, GIS has emerged as a truly global language. From July 14 to 19, our RISE facility, in...
Towards Gender Equality “Empowering the girl means empowering the world.” This simple yet powerful statement has been the heartbeat of our mission for the past eight years. And in that time, we’ve reached over 15,000 secondary school girls...
Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a Tool for Grassroots Conservation What good is groundbreaking research if no one can understand it? In conservation, where urgency meets complexity, the ability to clearly communicate science isn’t just a skill —...
Demographic drivers of population dynamics reveal subpopulation‐specific conservation needs for giraffes in the Serengeti Ecosystem Authors Abstract Survival, reproduction, and movement are the key demographic parameters that drive population dynamics. Factors affecting these demographic parameters in large, long-lived,...
Conservation Champions in the Making There is a powerful Swahili proverb that says, “Mtoto umleavyo ndivyo akuavyo” — “As you bring up a child, so he/she will be.” It is a timeless truth that echoes across cultures,...
