SPRING 2020 Dear Friends of ACC & ACC-US We hope you and your families are safe and healthy in this unprecedented and rapidly evolving time. ACC and ACC-US, like all of you, are adapting to a [...]
By David Western, Conservationist — Nairobi, Kenya — March 30, 2020 The coronavirus poses the greatest risk to human health around the world since the Spanish flu of 1918. The pandemic is already [...]
Women in Conservation Fund When local Maasai women are economically-empowered, the environment is better managed, human wildlife conflict is reduced and their families and communities achieve [...]
WINTER 2019 Happy New Year! Dear Friends of ACC & ACC-US We are grateful to all of our conservation partners—communities, organizations, foundations, and donors who have helped us reach [...]
FALL 2019 Biodiversity Conservation & Community-Based Climate Resilience Dear Friends of ACC & ACC-US Advising on international policy to protect endangered giraffes, working with [...]
RFP — Black Rhino Research Fellowship with The Grumeti Fund The Eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) is a critically endangered subspecies restricted to Tanzania, Kenya, and [...]
SPRING 2019 Partnerships for a Sustainable Future Dear Friends of ACC & ACC-US African Conservation Centre (ACC) approaches conservation from many angles and with many partners—from [...]
On February 21, 2019 African Conservation Centre (ACC) founder and Chairman, Dr. David Western, gave a public lecture at the National Museums of Kenya.His lecture, titled “Kenya’s Wildlife: A [...]
David Western has spent 40 years negotiating ways that livestock owners, tourism businesses and national park managers can co-exist and resolve wildlife issues. “If elephants used [...]
Amboseli National Park, Kenya; Photo by Harshil Gudka News From the Field Greetings from ACC & ACC-US! SUMMER 2018 Kenya has finally made it through the long-rainy season which began in [...]