News from the Field

Report on the workshops in Guinea and Togo conducted in March to train wildlife officials on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for managing ivory and other wildlife products.

Kristina Obame, our friend of the month for April, is a bilingual Gabonese writer/producer currently residing in Libreville, Gabon.

Increasing Liberia and Sierra Leone’s capacity to secure wildlife product stockpiles and thereby help to reduce the impact of the illegal wildlife trade across West Africa

How continental strategies become localised national action plans that turn policies into tangible impact for communities living close to elephants

In honour of women in conservation, we feature Greta F. Iori, an Ethiopian-Italian at the forefront of human-elephant coexistence.

Our friend of the month is Mr. Arfou Saley Baouna, an Inspector of Water and Forests at the Kandadji National Nature Reserve (RNNK) in Niger

Malawi joined the EPI in 2015 and has successfully implemented the EPI Foundation’s ‘Gold Standards.’

Our friend of the month is Patrick Egwu from the West African Conservation Network.

Since 2014, the EPI has supported many African countries in closing their domestic ivory markets.