Donate Now
June 22, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
Photo gallery, Zimbabwe
Pulitzer Center grantee Jeffrey Barbee documents wildlife poaching around Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
Region
Africa
June 22, 2006 | The Christian Science Monitor
In Zimbabwe, Ragtag Scouts vs. Poachers
We smell the buffalo before we see him. When we find his massive body, it's clear he has been dead for some time. Nobody has used his meat.
June 19, 2006 | The Christian Science Monitor
Rwanda Reaps Rewards of Wartime Nature Conservation
On the steep, misty slopes of the Sabinyo volcano, far above the green rectangles of sorghum fields that press against the Parc National des Volcans, a family of mountain gorillas is frolicking.
As the huge silverback yawns, a small group of camera-toting tourists - each of whom has paid Rwanda's park system $375 to see this scene - click away. "It's amazing!" one woman exclaims.
May 28, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
Virungas Parc National des Volcans
May 27, 2006
Loss of Trees, Loss of Life?
This video segment was origially featured on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria in May, 2006.
May 21, 2006 | The Baltimore Sun
Loss of Trees, Loss of Livelihood
In 1995, a Rwandan named Gad Tegeri cut down a tree in the Gishwati Forest Reserve, 30 square miles of soaring hardwoods in the hills east of Rwanda's largest lake.
He and his family, returning to Rwanda from exile in Congo, needed land to grow food. The Gishwati forest seemed more fertile ground for restarting life than United Nations refugee camps outside the city of Gisenyi
April 28, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
Loss of trees, loss of livelihood
March 30, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
A Week with the African Union
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience
Award winning journalist and director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Jon Sawyer, recently returned from Darfur where he spent a week traveling with African Union troops. He discusses patrols with the African Union, the attacks near the Chad border, the capabilities, limitations, and morale of the troops, and the mission of the newly founded Pulitzer Center.
March 28, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
Congo Side of Virungas Mount Nyiragongo
March 02, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
Q & A with Chris Milner on the Beja's Armed Struggle
Pulitzer Center grantee Christopher Milner discusses the Beja's armed struggles in Sudan.
February 27, 2006 | Pulitzer Center
Our Choice, Too: On the Edge in Darfur
Peacekeeping mission undertaken by the African Union in Darfur, Sudan, is said to be ineffective. A documentary produced by Pulitzer Center's Jon Sawyer reveals what actually goes on in the region.
February 12, 2006 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What Peace?
They have made a difference in Darfur, Sudan. But understaffed and underfunded—rarely able to halt aggressive attacks, the African Union peacekeeping force is becoming a target of violence themselves.