You can now help support us when you shop at Amazon! When you buy at Amazon Smile and select AACF as your charity (or click the link below) Amazon will donate to us at no cost to you! Please help support our dedicated researchers as...Read More
In June 2019 Tomas won National Geographic's Buffet Award for Conservation Leadership in Africa!Read more here: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2019/07/16/meet-conservationists-and-national-geographic-buffet-award-recipients-tomas-diagne-and-patricia-medici/And then in November 2019, Tomas won a Tusk Award!https://www.tusk.org/news/tusk-shines-spotlight-on-heroes-of-african-conservation/...Read More
This month we welcomed Lara, our first intern, who is working with us in Senegal! Lara has a background in marine mammals and she's helping us with African manatee and other marine mammal surveys, working with turtles at our ACI breeding facility, and assisting with...Read More
On October 9 our colleague Dr. Edem Eniang rescued a 2-3 week old manatee calf that had been caught in a fishing net by hunters. The hunters had kept the calf in a well for 3 days and were planning to eat it, so the...Read More
We are very excited to announce that the African Manatee Project has joined forces with the African Chelonian Institute and formed a new non-profit organization for research, conservation, and education of all African manatees and turtle species! We are now the African Aquatic Conservation Fund....Read More
I'm very late in writing to announce an exciting new initiative that I've recently begun. Thanks to funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I'm leading a two year long fellowship training program for 8 Central African manatee biologists, called MENTOR Manatee. MENTOR (Mentoring...Read More
Earlier this week I spent two days in the Delta Saloum region of central Senegal to meet with the director and staff of Bamboung National Park. Two years ago they found a dead manatee (the cause of its death was not due to humans as...Read More
A well-known manatee hunter has been arrested in Togo and over 20 skulls and 17 other bones confiscated, thanks to the great work of a Togolese organization called Alliance Nationale des Consumateurs et de l'Environment (ANCE). Click here to see the story and photos. I...Read More
A new genetics study just completed as part of my dissertation research has defined African manatee populations across their large range (21 countries) for the first time. Over eight years I collected 78 manatee tissue samples from eight countries and successfully isolated DNA from 63...Read More
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