Friday Feature: Beth O’Donnell, Board Member

By |April 29th, 2011|

Welcome to Friday Feature! Every Friday we will feature someone involved with ARC, including Board members, Junior Board members, field partner staff on the ground in Tanzania, and our volunteers and interns. We hope that this new feature will help you to get to know the many faces behind ARC and connect with our mission […]

Partner Spotlight: Tusk Trust

By |April 28th, 2011|

Protecting Wildlife, Supporting Communities, Promoting Education

The poaching crisis in Tanzania has put many of Africa’s treasured wildlife under great threat. In the past three years alone, nearly 800 African rhinos have been killed for their horns, which are thought to have medicinal purposes in some Asian countries. Unfortunately this crisis is nothing new for African […]

In Celebration of Earth Day: ARC Partners with Earth Day Network and Alex and Ani

By |April 22nd, 2011|

Pledging to plant 1 million trees in Tanzania in the next two years and a special Earth Day bangle set for ARC

The African Rainforest Conservancy is very pleased to announce its new partnership with Earth Day Network! With our field partner, the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG), we are pledging to plant 1 million trees […]

Friday Feature: Lori Weitzel, Junior Board Member

By |April 15th, 2011|

Welcome to Friday Feature! Every Friday we will feature someone involved with ARC, including Board members, Junior Board members, field partner staff on the ground in Tanzania, and our volunteers and interns. We hope that this new feature will help you to get to know the many faces behind ARC and connect with our mission […]

Join the Junior Board for Happy Hour on 4/26!

By |April 12th, 2011|

We are excited to introduce you to ARC’s Junior Board – a group of eleven young professionals who are passionate about conserving the Eastern Arc rainforest. Members originally hail from Michigan, Illinois, Cape Cod, and Madagascar; their professional careers find them in the fields of finance, fundraising, and filmmaking; they dabble in writing, photography, jewelry making, […]

Friday Feature: Gabrielle Francesco, ARC Social Media Intern

By |April 8th, 2011|

Welcome to Friday Feature! Every Friday we will feature someone involved with ARC, including Board members, Junior Board members, field partner staff on the ground in Tanzania, and our volunteers and interns. We hope that this new feature will help you to get to know the many faces behind ARC and connect with our mission […]

Canopy Chronicles: Ecotourism in Tanzania

By |April 7th, 2011|

A partnership with local communities and an abundant natural environment

Did you know that…

  • From 1950 to 2005 international tourism arrivals expanded at an annual rate of ‎‎6.5 percent, growing from 25 million to 806 million travelers.‎
  • Tourism provides 6-7 percent of the world’s jobs.
  • Tourism accounts for an estimated 12 percent of GDP for Tanzania.

Tourism is one of […]

Artist Spotlight: Susanna Noel Jolly

By |March 31st, 2011|

As part of our Artist Spotlight series, we introduce you this month to Susanna Noel Jolly. Susanna is the Executive Vice President at LA-based TV series and film production company And Then Productions and has contributed her stunning photographs to Artists for Africa for the past four years. You can view our past Artist Spotlights of Jonnie Miles and […]

Announcing the T-shirt Giveaway Winner!

By |March 28th, 2011|

Thank you to everyone (all 18 of you!) who participated in ARC’s anniversary t-shirt giveaway contest last week. Thanks also for your posts on Facebook and tweets on Twitter, helping us to spread the word about our new partnership with JILLY jellybug. Your comments were all fantastic, and it is inspiring to see that people are […]

Partner Spotlight: JILLY jellybug (win an anniversary t-shirt!)

By |March 23rd, 2011|

ARC is excited to announce it’s newest partnership with JILLY jellybug®! JILLY jellybug’s line of t-shirts, sweatshirts, and children’s wear all feature adorable emblems of friendly rainforest characters: JILLY jellybug, GRACIE Glowworm®, PAVEL polliwog®, and GAMBA gorilla®. JILLY jellybug and her rainforest friends are on an amazing adventure to help save the rainforest and […]