Mwezi 'Badru' Mugerwa won the Emerging Conservationist award for his work protected African golden cats Mugerwa and the Indianapolis Prize winner will be honored during a gala in September. A Ugandan ...

The first time Mwezi Mugerwa saw the African golden cat, he didn’t know what it was. While reviewing camera trap footage at Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, the conservation ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa is a Uganda-based ecologist and conservationist whose work is focused on biodiversity monitoring using camera traps in East ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Prize, the world’s leading award for animal conservation, has named Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa the Winner of the 2025 Indianapolis Prize Emerging Conservationist Award. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS, March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation, has named Mwezi "Badru" Mugerwa the Winner of the 2025 Indianapolis Prize ...

Few people have ever seen the African golden cat. A new conservation program—and some pigs—could help it avoid getting killed in illegal snares. The least-known feline on the entire continent, the ...

The African golden cat is arguably the continent’s least known feline, inhabiting dense tropical forests, almost never seen, and, of course, long-upstaged by Africa’s famous felines: lions, cheetahs, ...

A Ugandan conservationist working to preserve the African golden cat won the second-ever Emerging Conservationist award from the Indianapolis Prize. Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa will receive a $50,000 award ...