Mkomazi: One of Tanzania’s most diverse wildlife habits
Conspicuous consumption and the global decline of biodiversity
How birds coped with the prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa
Kenya’s Wajir County – an unexplored birding destination
Looking back at 40 years of efforts to preserve the Northern White Rhino

1. Controversy over uprooted mature baobabs in Kenya for export.
2. The importance of grasslands in mitigating the effects of climate change.
3. A planned ivory museum inside Nairobi National Park.
4. The Ugandan magistrate combating illegal wildlife trade.
5. A wildlife sanctuary next to a golf course on the Kenyan coast.

Highlights
A Kenyan Indigenous community evicted from a forest they consider their homeland.

Efforts to save the Northern White Rhino from extinction through advanced assisted reproduction technics.

Conservation efforts to avert the extinction of Uganda’s iconic but vulnerable shoebill stork.

Role of wildlife in wild seed dispersal in the tropics.

Ecological and anthropogenic factors threatening the survival of lions in the Masai Mara.

Why wildfires are increasingly frequent.
Efforts to save the near extinct mountain bongo gather pace.
Uganda’s wildlife dispersal corridor at risk.
Using cheetah scat to fight trafficking in cubs.
Mpala – the Kenyan research centre training next generation of environmental leaders.

Highlights:

• The likely evolutionally effects of climate change on wildlife
• Interview with NatureUganda’s chief, Achilles Byaruhanga
• The faunal treasures of Kakamega Forest
• The unique highland elephants of Namibia
• The rise and fall of Masai Mara’s Famous Five coalition of cheetahs

SWARA is aimed at the non-specialist reader who is interested in wildlife and the environment. The magazine is proud to call itself “The voice of conservation in East Africa.”

SWARA is loaded with amazing wildlife photography whose articles are written by the who’s who of the conservation world.

SWARA  is aimed at the non-specialist reader who is interested in wildlife and the environment. The magazine is proud to call itself “The voice of conservation in East Africa.” SWARA is loaded with amazing wildlife photography whose articles are written by the who’s who of the conservation world.

Below are some highlights of the stories you will find inside:
Ali Skanda, the master dhow craftsman striving to rid the seas of plastic pollution
Poacher kingpins go free: Injustice or Incompetence?
Greening a highway in Nairobi
Plus
Photographing a rare black leopard in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau
A profile of conservation photographer Alison Jones

In this issue:

Kaddu Sebunya urges greater effort to nurture nature in 2021

Find out why lakes in Kenya’s Rift Valley are rising and expanding

Managing marine resources to boost the livelihood of coastal communities

Part of a natural forest in Uganda is being cleared make way for a sugar plantation

A vantage spot in the Maasai Mara from where to observe and photograph nocturnal wildlife activities

Below are some highlights of the stories you will find inside this Issue:
The crucial role of dogs in the fight against illegal wildlife trade
The folly of damming of Uganda’s Murchison Falls
The Kenyan pastoralists championing wildlife conservation

Plus
Exploring Kenya’s Soysambu Conservancy on camel back
Profile of wildlife photographer Federico Veronesi

Highlights in this issue:
Effects of COVID-19 on wildlife conservation.
Saving vultures from poisoning scourge.
New species of sawshark found in Mozambique and Zanzibar.
Illegal trade in cheetah cubs unabated.

Plus
Study suggests coral reefs may be adapting to cope with heat stress.
Climbing Uganda’s mountains of the moon.

Highlights 
Wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC examines possible link between coronavirus and wildlife trade
An indigenous Kenyan community conserving the hirola, the most endangered antelope
A closer look at the African monarch butterfly whose sex and death are intertwined
Incentives to communities boost the conservation of the Grey Crowned Crane in Uganda
Plus
Tanzania’s proceeds with construction of a hydropower dam in Selous National Reserve
How bio-pesticides work in the control of desert locusts

Highlights:

·         A footless leopard cub in Mt. Kenya Forest
·         The chimpanzees of Uganda’s Kyambura Gorge
·         A controversial conservation solution for Madagascar
·         Ravages of salt water intrusion in Tana River Delta

Plus

·         Tribute to tribute to conservationist Norman Myers

In this Issue
The cave elephants of Mt Elgon
A tree-climbing lioness in the Maasai Mara
The Maasai moran in the New York Marathon to help safe lions
Rare sighting of the Cassin’s Hawk Eagle on Mt Kenya

Plus
The Big Cat People: A profile of Jonathan and Angela Scott

In this Issue: 
How gorillas mourn their dead,
Chyulu Hills, the tower that waters Mombasa,
Spreading the conservation gospel: Are faith precepts effective?
Primatologist Augustine Basabose’s efforts to save the Grauer’s gorilla,

Plus:
Birding in South Nandi Forest,
Why are giraffe numbers in decline?

In this issue of Swara magazine:

-Karl Ammann exposes illicit online ivory trade
-Turbulent times for the Taita apalis: Rupi Mangat revisits the shrinking habit of a threatened rare songbird
- Curtis Abraham reports on rare pangolin behaviour captured by camera-traps in Uganda
-The Elephants of Tarangire: A Tanzanian community helps eliminate poaching

PLUS:

-Tracking the Grey crowned crane in Kenya
-Wildlife art painter Sophie Walbeoffee: A profile by Delta Willis

In this Issue
Focus on Akagera: Rwanda’s Largest Protected Wetland
Assessing the Threats Facing Plant Species in the Lake Victoria Basin
Chimp & Bonobo Behaviour Compared to Human Character
How Cheetahs Select their Habitat in the Maasai Mara

Plus
Profile of Wildlife Photographer Margot Raggett
Focus on a Unique Bird Sanctuary in Central Kenya 

In this Issue

Bringing bongos back to Kenya’s forests
Face-to-face with mountain gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Park
Efforts to protect robber crabs in Tanzania
The overlapping species of Kenya’s Shimba Hills

Plus
How DNA from smuggled ivory helped identify trafficking gangs
Profile of wildlife photographer Jeffrey Wu


Highlights in this issue:

Ground-breaking coral reef restoration in the Seychelles
The mating habits of warthogs
Alarming biodiversity loss in Lake Victoria
Cheetah Social Structure in Kenya’s Masai Mara

Plus
Asia’s shifting rhino horn markets
Profile of sculptor Terry Mathews

In this issue, we report on the death of the world’s last male northern white rhino and the scientific efforts under way to prevent extinction of the species. Read about how China’s new domestic ban on the ivory trade could do more harm than good without effective enforcement and how civil war is undermining wildlife conservation in South Sudan.

In this issue, learn about why giraffe populations are declining in East Africa and why demand for rhino horn daggers continues in Yemen despite the conflict there. We also revisit the legend of the man-eating lions of Tsavo. You can also learn how an ape skull found recently in Kenya could fill gaps in human ancestry.

Rhinos back in Uganda Rupi Mangat reports on the reintroduction of the white rhino in Uganda.

Surprising and intrepid visitors Brian Finch marvels at the wonders and perils of bird migration.

The time to save Africa's Vultures is NOW! Munir Virani calls for action to prevent the extinction of Africa’s threatened vultures...

In this issue we broadly look at why conservancies matter for wildlife conservation in Kenya. We also look at how conservancies are to the rescue of both wildlife and livestock in the Greater Mara.
You will also find in this issue the story on pangolin which has become the mostly heavily traded wildlife product in the world.

Thousands of heavily-armed herders are invading conservancies, private properties and smallholdings in Laikipia, one of Kenya’s most important wildlife areas, as they search for pasture for their cattle. In this issue, we highlight the causes asking the question is drought, land or politics?
We also highlight how the rescued chimps have a second chance in Uganda.

The East African Wild Life Society is now 60 years old. In this anniversary issue of Swara, we enrich the variety of conservation stories in the regular edition of the magazine with gems reprinted from the past.
The reproduced highlights from the 1950s to the 2000s will not only evoke nostalgia in some. They could also help us connect the concerns that conservationists of the past [some of them still active and as passionate as ever] grappled with back then, and what we are dealing with today.

We highlight Rwanda's Mountain gorilla baby naming ceremony and advice on how to avoid heartbreak on safari. 
Have you visited the Karura Forest? Its more than just a pleasant walk in the woods.

APES IN CAPTIVITY troubling levels of trafficking.

MAMA SIMBA
Samburu women take up conservation.

BURNING IVORY TO SAVE ELEPHANTS..

In this issue we focus on why the Chinese revere rhino horn as well as pay a heartfelt tribute to the Big Cat Diary's marsh lions. We go deep into Uganda to bring you images of the forgotten gem that is Kidepo Valley National Park. We wrap up this issue by going on a rhino patrol with the Masai Mara rhino unit.

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