This year is the International Year of Biodiversity, and ACC is proud to play a significant role in creating and hosting an international conference on biodiversity and climate change in Kenya this September. Kenya has a wealth of biodiversity vital to human well-being as well as planetary health. Despite the value of Kenyan biodiversity, we recognize that we have yet to inventory all species  or develop a national biodiversity framework that takes into account projected changes in land use and climate. 

Together with Kenya Wildlife Service, National Museums of Kenya, Department of Remote Sensing and 

Resource Surveys, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development and Kenya Forest Service, ACC will host a conference as Kenya’s contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity titled: Kenya’s International Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change - 15th to 17th September 2010. 

On May 8, the World Ecology Center in St. Louis presented Dr. David Western with their prestigious World Ecology Award at a gala banquet. Attending from Kenya were Betty Buyu, director of African Conservation Centre, and Lucy Wariungi, director of programs for ACC; and representing ACC~US was Dr. Bill Yancey, chairman. Dr. Shirley Strum, professor at UCSD and director of the Uaso Ngiro Baboon Project and David Western's wife, also attended.

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Welcome to our new website ~ and our new "face" to the world.

Starting 2010, we will do business in North America and throughout the world as African Conservation Centre (U.S. office). For fundraising purposes, we will retain our 501c3 non-profit status under the name African Conservation Fund. Our board and staff remain the same ~ we are just updating our name to better reflect our mission, to support the work of African Conservation Centre and its affiliates and projects in East Africa.

Program and project information is fully described in the new African Conservation Centre main website at ConservationAfrica.org; our U.S. website will remain active for current news, events, and fundraising in North America and other regions outside Africa.