The African elephant is an ambassador for conservation. The largest mammal that walks the earth is now leading the way to help save vast areas of wild lands and the biodiversity they support.

The great paradox about elephant conservation is that while many African countries have experienced rapidly decreasing elephant populations, others have to cope with rising elephant numbers. Both declining and growing elephant numbers present certain problems and concerns. 

This highly focussed event hosted by the Limbe Wildlife Centre comprised of a unique workshop with Cameroonian artists featuring the Cross River Gorilla. The workshop was part of the AFC Flag Expedition in Cameroon, a collaborative project of Canadian high realist artist Daniel Taylor, Artists for Conservation, ERuDeF and the African Conservation Foundation.

Gilman International Conservation's Okapi Conservation Project is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the most biologically diverse country in Africa.

The Ituri Forest covers 175,000 square kilometers of lowland tropical forest and contains some of the most important closed canopy rainforest and species diversity in the world. 

The De Brazza monkey is endangered in Kenya due to rapid habitat loss, but much of its ecology and conservation status remains unknown due to its cryptic nature and the few number of studies carried out locally.

Western Kenya was the hitherto known eastern most range of the species on the continent until the discovery of a new population in the Mathews Range. This discovery on the eastern region of the Great Rift Valley came as big a surprise to many primatologists.   

Cross River gorillas are increasingly threatened with extinction in Cameroon and Nigeria. Hunting and habitat destruction is likely within a century to be so devastating that the only surviving gorilla populations will be in the conservation areas.

Only a very tiny fraction of the Cross River gorilla population is currently protected within a National Park or a Sanctuary.