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Featured film · Kenya

Where Lions Once Were

At Cha Simba on Kenya’s coast, a Chonyi family is restoring the forest around an ancient limestone cave. A planned cement mine now threatens the land they are bringing back.

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How We Grew It

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How We Grew It: We Used A Japanese Tree Planting Technique to Revive Our Villages in Cameroon
Reforestation & Restoration · Cameroon
We Used A Japanese Tree Planting Technique to Revive Our Villages in Cameroon

Limbi Blessing Tata, founder of Ecological Balance Cameroon, on using Japanese forest restoration techniques to solve a local water crisis in Cameroon while creating over 1,000 jobs.

How We Grew It: Taking on Shell, Mining Giants, And Building Community Resilience on South Africa’s Wild Coast
Communities · South Africa
Taking on Shell, Mining Giants, And Building Community Resilience on South Africa’s Wild Coast
How We Grew It: I discovered a new species of Lemur and built an advanced rainforest research facility in Madagascar
Conservation · Madagascar
I discovered a new species of Lemur and built an advanced rainforest research facility in Madagascar
How We Grew It: PAMS Foundation. From Village Patrols to Growing Tanzania’s Wildlife Anti-Trafficking Network
Conservation · Tanzania
PAMS Foundation. From Village Patrols to Growing Tanzania’s Wildlife Anti-Trafficking Network

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Films from Africa featured at ALT EFF 2026
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Benin: Vodun to the Rescue of Mangroves
Benin: Vodun to the Rescue of Mangroves
Benin · Environmental journalism
Architects of the Earth
Architects of the Earth
West Africa · International shorts
The Scramble for Green Hydrogen in South Africa
The Scramble for Green Hydrogen in South Africa
South Africa · Environmental journalism
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Explained: Why Tiger Bone Wine Threatens African Lions With Extinction
Conservation · Wildlife trade
Why Tiger Bone Wine Threatens African Lions With Extinction

Four young lions died where they ate their final meal in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park. Park rangers found them lying on sandy ground near the remains of a poisoned calf.

Great white sharks vanished from the Cape Town Coast. Orcas aren’t the only reason.
Conservation · South Africa
Great white sharks vanished from the Cape Town Coast. Orcas aren’t the only reason.
Why Do 80% of Africa’s Species Survive Outside Parks? And Why Are the Communities Protecting Them Still Fighting for Their Land?
Communities · Sub-Saharan Africa
80% of Africa’s Biodiversity Survives Outside Parks. The Communities Protecting It Are Still Fighting for Their Land
The Extinction Crisis Inside South Africa’s Traditional Medicine Trade
Communities · South Africa
The Extinction Crisis Inside South Africa’s Traditional Medicine Trade
Benin: Vodun to the Rescue of Mangroves
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Benin: Vodun to the Rescue of Mangroves

How Vodun belief and traditional governance protect the mangroves of Benin’s coast.

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Stream through restored forest in Nkambe, Cameroon
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Rivers Need Forests

How native forests bring water back, from Nkambe to northern Kenya.

Earthen tower house, from Architects of the Earth
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Sacred Ground

How indigenous knowledge and belief protect land, forests and coasts.

Industrial plant, from The Scramble for Green Hydrogen in South Africa
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Not For Sale

Communities defending their coasts and land against extraction.

Farmers turning bokashi fertiliser in Tharaka Nithi, Kenya
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Growing Miyawaki Forests to Fight Deforestation and Revive Rural Economies in Cameroon
Reforestation & Restoration · Cameroon
Ecological Balance Cameroon: bringing Nkambe’s rivers back

Ecological Balance Cameroon is planting dense native forests along the streams that feed Nkambe’s rivers, which now run dry every dry season.

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Marie-Noelle Keijzer, We Forest: It’s Not About Being Perfect. It’s About Stopping the Desert.
Reforestation · Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi
WeForest: restoring 85,000 hectares of forest across Ethiopia, Zambia and Malawi
Fighting for Survival: Ethiopia’s Largest Community Conservation Area Fights For Survival After US Aid Pulls Support
Conservation · Ethiopia
Cool Ground: keeping Ethiopia’s Tama Community Conservation Area alive after US aid ended
Wild Coast Communities Seek Investment for Indigenous Knowledge Resource Center
Communities · South Africa
Sustaining the Wild Coast: an indigenous knowledge centre for the amaMpondo coast

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Explained: Why Tiger Bone Wine Threatens African Lions With Extinction
On The GroundUnder Threat

Explained: Why Tiger Bone Wine Threatens African Lions With Extinction

Explained: How Traditional Cattle Herding Grew Northern Botswana’s Lion Population by 50%
On The Ground

Explained: How Traditional Cattle Herding Grew Northern Botswana’s Lion Population by 50%

Reading the Forest Through Water: Rwanda’s New Biodiversity Tool at Volcanoes National Park
Emerging TechnologiesOn The Ground

Reading the Forest Through Water: Rwanda’s New Biodiversity Tool at Volcanoes National Park

Do Tourists Scare Wildlife? What the Data Says…
On The Ground

Do Tourists Scare Wildlife? What the Data Says…

Funding African Nature

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Durban Muthi Market
The Extinction Crisis Inside South Africa’s Traditional Medicine Trade
South Africa's traditional healers are traveling further than ever to gather medicinal plants.
Marc Maleika, Sylva: What went wrong in carbon markets and what happens next
What went wrong in carbon markets and what happens next.
Mikoko Pamoja Community Water Project
Robyn Morland, ACES: If a Community Can Only Say Yes, Then Their Voice Is Not Genuine
ACES Director Robyn Morland explains why genuine community-led conservation means accepting when communities reject projects—and what funders must understand.
Desa'a Forest, Ethiopia
Marie-Noelle Keijzer, We Forest: It’s Not About Being Perfect. It’s About Stopping the Desert.
WeForest is scaling reforestation across Africa. Here's what they've learned about what works.
How Private Funding Helped Conservation Projects Survive the USAID Cuts—And What African Projects Can Learn
Dramatic cuts to USAID funding earlier this year meant community-led conservation organisations worldwide faced an immediate crisis.
Kenya’s wildlife conservancies make old men rich, while making women and young people poorer
Kenya’s wildlife conservancies criticised for making old men rich, while making women and young people poorer
A study reveals that land-rich older men reap the biggest rewards, often at the expense of women, young people and
Land is Africa’s best hope for climate adaptation
Land degradation, deforestation and biodiversity loss are eroding Africa’s resilience.

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On The Ground

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Explained: Why Tiger Bone Wine Threatens African Lions With Extinction
Asian demand for tiger bone wine now threatens African lions.
Explained: How Traditional Cattle Herding Grew Northern Botswana’s Lion Population by 50%
By 2013, farmers had killed half the Okavango's lions in a year. A herding revival changed everything.
Reading the Forest Through Water: Rwanda’s New Biodiversity Tool at Volcanoes National Park
Reading the Forest Through Water: Rwanda's New Biodiversity Tool at Volcanoes National Park
Do Tourists Scare Wildlife? What the Data Says…
Researchers analysed 44 studies spanning 38 species and 30 years to understand how wild animals change their behaviour in response
Elephant in area protected by PAMS Foundation
Why Do 80% of Africa’s Species Survive Outside Parks? And Why Are the Communities Protecting Them Still Fighting for Their...
The future of conservation depends on the people who've lived alongside nature for generations.
Indigenous Monitors Stopped Millions of Dollars in Illegal Timber Using Free Apps — And How You Could Join The Fight...
Communities across Africa are using free satellite monitoring tools to fight illegal logging—and winning.
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How AI Processes Satellite Images to Track Wetland Loss Across 131 Million African Hectares
Digital Earth Africa's free AI and satellite tools help four African countries track wetland loss using 30 years of data.
Sustaining the Wild Coast. Local community in mpondoland.
Wild Coast Communities Seek Investment for Indigenous Knowledge Resource Center
A three-part Indigenous Knowledge Resource Center would establish the Wild Coast as a globally significant hub for indigenous knowledge preservation
Musri tribesmen with cattle
Fighting for Survival: Ethiopia’s Largest Community Conservation Area Fights For Survival After US Aid Pulls Support
USAID abruptly terminated $8.5 million in funding for Ethiopia's largest community conservation area, leaving 20,000 Indigenous people without salaries and
Fighting on All Fronts: The amaMpondo’s Battle Plan to Save Their Ancestral Coast
amaMpondo communities are fighting extraction through legal battles, traditional knowledge preservation, and economic alternatives.
Limbi and the tree planting team
Growing Miyawaki Forests to Fight Deforestation and Revive Rural Economies in Cameroon
Facing up to the deforestation crisis in Cameroon.
Sustainable, Smart, Innovative: Is this the future of Africa’s rural villages?
The University of Johannesburg transformed the remote Limpopo village of Gwakwani through a solar-powered bakery that produces 200 loaves daily.
Namibian Desert Blooms as Farmers Turn Bush into “Black Gold”
In the arid landscapes of Namibia, where farming has long been a challenge, a group of innovative farmers is quite
How a Kenyan Community Regenerated 50% of Their Forest by Planting 300,000 Trees in Five Years
Mirema Community Forest Association achieved remarkable results.
Tamalu Farm
Tamalu Farm: Bringing Brazil’s Syntropic Agriculture To East Africa
Tamalu’s approach to farming and land management stands out as a live African demonstration of the syntropic agriculture approach which

How We Grew It

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Sinegugu Zukulu standing against a backdrop of green hills, a river and the sea on the Wild Coast
How We Grew It: Taking on Shell, Mining Giants, And Building Community Resilience on South Africa’s Wild Coast
Sinegugu Zukulu, founder of Sustaining the Wild Coast, on holding a resistance movement together through assassination attempts and murder—while building
PAMS Foundation Antipoaching unit standing under trees
How We Grew It: PAMS Foundation. From Village Patrols to Growing Tanzania’s Wildlife Anti-Trafficking Network
After traffickers murdered their co-director, PAMS Foundation expanded rather than collapsed. Co-founder Krissie Clark shares lessons on building resilient conservation
Community Tree Planting in Cameroon
How We Grew It: We Used A Japanese Tree Planting Technique to Revive Our Villages in Cameroon
Limbi Blessing Tata founded Ecological Balance Cameroon in 2016 after recognising that water infrastructure alone wouldn't solve Nkambe's chronic water
Golden Bamboo Lemur
How We Grew It: I discovered a new species of Lemur and built an advanced rainforest research facility in Madagascar
Patricia Wright, primatologist and founder of Centre ValBio, on establishing one of the world's most important tropical research stations.

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