Changing the narrative on Africa.
African conservationists are conducting new and repeat wildlife censuses to track population changes across landscapes and national borders. The surveys are generating data on numbers, movements and habitat pressures that can guide conservation planning and wildlife management.
As international demand for birdwatching grows, Africa’s protected areas are gaining greater visibility among specialist travellers. A new global ranking highlights four parks whose rich birdlife is helping reshape the continent’s wildlife tourism market.
Sustainable aviation fuel development in Africa is moving from pilot initiatives into early-stage project planning linked to emerging demand and policy signals. Most activity remains in feasibility and financing stages, a gradual build-up toward potential future production capacity.
African governments are shifting carbon markets from fragmented project systems into state-controlled infrastructure that defines how environmental assets are measured, verified, and monetized.
The search for natural, locally-sourced products which truly work became personal for Ethiopian entrepreneur Feven Tsehaye. The result: an enterprise that transforms indigenous forest plants into high-value products the world has long overlooked.
West African states are moving from fragmented oversight to coordinated regional control of their oceans. The push aims to curb illegal fishing, rebuild coastal economies, and protect biodiversity. Success could turn years of lost marine wealth into lasting regional economic opportunity.
From southern Africa’s coasts to aquariums abroad, a new model of cross-border conservation is taking shape around one of the continent’s most threatened species, the African penguin.
Three years ago, two young men began walking the streets of Mwanza, Tanzania’s second-largest city, sacks in hand, collecting discarded plastics. With no machines, no funding, and some hope, Patrick John Kipesha and Ignatius Anchar Mushi soldiered on, driven by a simple conviction of keeping their neighbourhood clean.
Every morning, Hamadi Juma, a 32-year-old from Dar es Salaam’s Temeke district rolls his three-wheeled motorized tricycle, popularly known as a bajaji, out of his backyard. On his way to pick up passengers he stops to fill up with Compressed Natural Gas.
Antony Kirori’s solution to Kenya’s pencil shortage? Since paper was also derived from trees, why not make pencils from paper?