Pioneers in Elephant Conservation Honoured with Royal Geographical Society Prize
Nairobi, April 8 (Swara) - Two of Africa’s leading elephant conservationists, Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Dr Jake Wall, have been awarded the...
Conservationist Colin Church’s Last Interview with Swara Magazine
As a tribute to Kenyan conservationist Colin Church, who passed away this week, we republish below an interview with him that appeared in the...
World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91
Nairobi, Oct 2 (Swara) – Dr Jane Goodall, the pioneering British primatologist whose 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania transformed the...
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