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It’s a Baby Boom of New Wolves!

After a really successful breeding season the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation program is thrilled to announce that 21 Ethiopian wolf packs have recently welcomed new arrivals. Their monitors have counted a grand total of 71 pups across the country! A great boost for this endangered species. The Born Free-supported Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP) is celebrating […]

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Turkish Athletes Train in Ethiopia for Tokyo Olympics

Turkey’s top-notch athletes have been training in one of Ethiopia’s high-altitude training sites, Sululta, with hopes to clinch the qualifying time required to compete in the marathon and 3,000 meters steeplechase in Tokyo 2020 Olympics (now scheduled from July 23 to Aug. 8, 2021). The primary goal of the two-month training in Sululta for the

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What is a Hippo?

Hippos are the third-largest living land mammal, after elephants and white rhinos. Despite their large and bulky appearance, they have adaptations to their semi-aquatic environments allowing them to move swiftly on both water and land. Their feet have four-webbed toes that splay out to distribute weight evenly and therefore adequately support them on land, and

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Orbis Ethiopia celebrates 22 years of eliminating blindness

Leading eye care nonprofit Orbis proudly celebrates 22 years of working to eliminate the blindness-causing infection trachoma in Ethiopia. Most recently, Orbis administered more than 7.5 million doses of trachoma-fighting antibiotics in just one month despite significant challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Trachoma is highly contagious, but it is easily treatable with antibiotics if

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