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Market in Treicheville, Abidjan, 2017.

In Côte d’Ivoire a changing climate hits farmers and markets alike

Gael Zozoro 9 May 2025
Olivier Nsengimana, founder of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association. Image courtesy James Rooney/National Geographic Society.

Rwanda’s Olivier Nsengimana inspires protection for gray crowned cranes in East Africa

Musinguzi Blanshe 30 Apr 2025
Sheep near Nieuwoudtville, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

PHOTO ESSAY Wind-blown sand scouring life off a Southern African landscape

Leonie Joubert 30 Apr 2025
Hooded vulture, Gambia 2017. Image by Pete Richman via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In West Africa, hooded vultures vanish as abattoirs modernize

Ryan Truscott 24 Apr 2025
Rajabu Juma at his home in Katwe. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The colonial ghosts of Uganda’s ‘Queen Elizabeth’ park

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Apr 2025

Palm oil company uses armed forces, tear gas against protesting villagers in Cameroon

Victoria Schneider, Yannick Kenné 4 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025
Rescue operation at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center.

Devastating flood forces relocation of 10,000 tortoises at Madagascar sanctuary

Rivonala Razafison 26 Mar 2025
Two people sit in conversation on a bench beside a path along a stream in Karurua forest, Nairobi, Kenya. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninara/51944328733/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

African forum on urban forests calls for greater access to green spaces

Victoria Schneider 25 Mar 2025
Women living near the Socapalm plantation in Edéa take part in a demonstration against replanting in January 2025. Image courtesy of Félicité Ngo Bissou/AFRISE.

New allegations of abuse against oil palm giant Socfin in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 24 Mar 2025
The Stanley Plateau glacier in 2022. Africa’s remaining tropical glaciers are rapidly disappearing. Image courtesy of Project Pressure.

Africa’s last tropical glaciers are melting away along with local livelihoods

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Giant quiver tree, Namaqualand, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert.

Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa

Leonie Joubert 20 Mar 2025
In a vibrant green forestscape, a man in a blue t-shirt and gumboots stretches his arms across the dark bole of an enormous, extravagantly buttressed tree.. Image courtesy Andrea Bianchi.

‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species

Ryan Truscott 20 Mar 2025

Searching for peace, finding hope: A new film explores rural conflict in Kenya

Leonie Joubert 14 Mar 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton seated on the ground, writing in a notebook, two elephants in the background. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Lives worth living: Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and the fight for coexistence

Leonie Joubert 13 Mar 2025

In the drylands of northern Kenya, a ‘summer school’ for young researchers

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Pastoralists know every landscape has a history: Interview with Gufu Oba

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2025
African palm civet (Nandinia binotata), Nouabale-Ndoki NP. Elusive yet abundant, nocturnal African palm civets are widely hunted for bushmeat in many parts of Africa. Image courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas/WCS.

Elusive wildlife shows up for photographer’s camera traps in Congo

Spoorthy Raman, Victoria Schneider 26 Feb 2025
Stephen Kenduiwo holds a round green seed up to the camera. Image by Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Seeds of 19 African tree species added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Anne Nzouankeu 25 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025
A community ranger from the Biliqo-Bulesa Community Conservancy in northern Kenya, which receives support from the Northern Rangelands Trust, a USAID grantee. NRT’s grant was not reviewed by the GAO. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Feb 2025
Tropical botanist Andrea Bianchi examines a species of Anthocleista in Ngezi Forest Reserve. Unlike the species that grows in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains, the ones he and colleagues found in Ngezi are armed with spines, more akin to a species that grows in West Africa. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

Ryan Truscott 13 Feb 2025
Pan-fried shea nuts. Image by Pat Robert Larubi for Mongabay.

Uganda community group restores shea groves and livelihoods

Sam Schramski and Pat Larubi 10 Feb 2025
A woman stands in a field, waist-deep in the green of her crops, trees visible in the background. Image by Pat Larubi for Mongabay.

Shea’s silent guardians restore Uganda’s traditional parklands

Sam Schramski and Pat Larubi 7 Feb 2025
One man lifts honeycomb from a bees' nest while his companion holds a red plastic bag open to receive it, smoke drifts in the background. Image courtesy Claire Spottiswoode.

Birds guide honey-hunters to most of their harvest in Mozambican reserve

Ryan Truscott 7 Feb 2025
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

How illicit mining fuels violence in eastern DRC: Interview with Jean-Pierre Okenda

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Feb 2025

No justice in sight for World Bank project-affected communities in Liberia

Victoria Schneider 3 Feb 2025

Camera traps capture first glimpse of genetically distinct chimps in southwestern Nigeria

Spoorthy Raman 31 Jan 2025
A stocky man in a white cap and grey and white dashiki holds up a thick manila envelope of documents of his demolished property, red marker announcing its contents. Image courtesy Kemi Adelagun.

Nigeria’s new coastal highway runs over communities & biodiversity hotspots

Ini Ekott 30 Jan 2025
An oilfield location in Muanda early in the morning.

DRC orders environmental, operational audits of oil company Perenco

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jan 2025
Janet Nyakiru Abwoli, Kasese district, Uganda. Image by Innocent Kiiza for Mongabay.

In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion

Innocent Kiiza 23 Jan 2025
New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin

New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Jan 2025

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A model of a woolly mammoth at the Royal Victoria Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2018. Photo by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).
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