African People & Wildlife 2025 Annual Report

Built for This

Aug
12
2026

Coexistence demanded a different response in every landscape in 2025.

African People & Wildlife worked with stakeholders across 85 partner communities to reduce human-wildlife conflict, manage and restore grasslands, strengthen nature-based enterprises, and prepare local leaders for the future. Trained local response, practical field tools, applied science, and long-term partnerships allowed each effort to adapt to the species, conditions, and priorities of each landscape.

Built for This follows that work from farms facing elephant conflict and pastoral lands shared with carnivores to women-led enterprises, wildlife monitoring routes, restored grasslands, and the living classrooms of the Noloholo Environmental Center.

2025 APW Annual Report Cover
2025 APW Annual Report Cover
2025 APW Annual Report Cover
2025 APW Annual Report Cover
2025 APW Annual Report Cover
2025 APW Annual Report Cover
2025 APW Annual Report Cover

Key Takeaways

Reducing Conflict

During peak conflict months near Ngorongoro, reported elephant crop-raiding dropped 58% from the same period in 2024. In Greater Lake Natron, livestock depredation at pasture declined 57%, and retaliatory killing attempts decreased by 89%.

Group of cheetahs
Kenneth Coe
Group of cheetahs

Managing Land at Scale

Across 800,000 acres, communities coordinated grazing, monitored land conditions, and used shared plans to guide decisions throughout entire landscapes—strengthening woodland savannas that sustain pastoral livelihoods, wildlife, and long-term resilience in Tanzania.

Wildebeest migration
Laly Lichtenfeld/APW
Wildebeest migration

Expanding Opportunity

Women leaders advanced production, quality control, reporting, and sales for 1,944 beekeepers in 109 groups. Environmental camps welcomed 148 participants, opening pathways to scholarships, mentorships, and conservation careers for young Tanzanians.

School tree planting
Emmily Tunuka/APW
School tree planting

After more than two decades leading our team, I believe more strongly than ever that the future of conservation belongs to the people closest to the land. African People & Wildlife was built to support that future—with the knowledge, tools, relationships, and opportunities that enable communities and wildlife to thrive together.

Laly L. Lichtenfeld, Ph.D.
Co-founder and CEO