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African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), Nzérékoré, Guinea. Image by augustofaustino via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Leaked study warns of irreversible damage from iron ore mine in Guinea UNESCO site

Josef Skrdlik, OIiver Dunn 24 Jun 2026
A yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta), a bird of the rainforest understorey, sits on its nest in the Tai National Park. Image courtesy of Michele Menegon.

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 23 Jun 2026
Christine Kouman with a slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus). Image courtesy of Agata Staniewicz.

Côte d’Ivoire’s tree-climbing crocodile needs to be protected, scientist says

Ryan Truscott 19 Jun 2026
The white-necked picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus) near its nesting colony in the south of Taï National Park.

In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jun 2026
Baboons at the village of Rooi Els, on the outskirts of Cape Town. Image by Barry Christianson for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a village learns to live with baboons — but it may be the exception

Barry Christianson 17 Jun 2026
Leopard (Panthera pardus) in Taï National Park, Côte d’ivoire in 2026. Image courtesy of OIPR/EBURCO.

The quest to reconnect imperiled rainforest in West Africa

Ryan Truscott 15 Jun 2026
Train hauling coal between Moatize and Nacala in 2018. Image by Matthias Hille via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Improved transport opens Mozambique’s forests to new pressures

Mkhululi Chimoio 11 Jun 2026
A West African seahorse (Hippocampus algiris) is a vulnerable species found in West Africa

Four alleged wildlife traffickers arrested in Guinea, dried seahorses and shark fins seized

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jun 2026
A woman holds up land tenure certificates in Chipata, Zambia (2017). Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Movement gives African rural women farmers a voice, but still battles landownership

Charles Mpaka 9 Jun 2026
Elephant, Serengeti, Tanzania. Image by sama093 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Huge ivory bust raises questions about follow-up investigations in Tanzania

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026
Diane Sitima at her farm. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support

Charles Mpaka 4 Jun 2026

Can deforestation predict Ebola outbreaks? Q&A with CDC’s Carson Telford

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2026
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Report alleges élite ties behind logging permits in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Ashoka Mukpo 29 May 2026
The royal blue pansy butterfly (Junonia rhadama), one of the endemic insect species trapped by the IBA. Image by Andrianiaina Angelo via iNaturalist. (CC BY-NC 4.0)

New survey methods uncover new insights into Madagascar’s biodiversity

Mino Rakotovao 21 May 2026
Elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Malawi in 2006. Image by st georges via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Electric fences help farmers and elephants coexist in Zambian borderlands

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2026
A boy gathers water in Kalokol, with submerged palm trees behind. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026
Fisherman James Lekubo on Lake Turkana. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026
ount Elgon, Uganda. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Elephants return to Mount Elgon side of Uganda after four decades

Benjamin Jumbe 18 May 2026
Installing an IFAW-supported temporary solar fence in Chikomeni chiefdom, within the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, to deter human-elephant conflict. Image courtesy of IFAW.

Radio and satellite alerts help Zambian farmers live with dangerous wildlife

Ryan Truscott 15 May 2026
Banner image: Farmers Anna Zimba and her husband Phaniso Zgambo stand in front of a cement granary. Around 30 such granaries have been built within the farming communities that are near to Kasungu National Park, offering greater protection to stored maize from hungry elephants. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

As elephants return in eastern Zambia, communities adapt to coexistence

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2026
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) in Ondo state, Nigeria. Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Nigeria aims for stronger wildlife protections with sweeping new law

Valentine Benjamin 12 May 2026
A black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina), which is found within the African-Eurasian flyway.

Up to half the bird species using the African-Eurasian flyway are declining

Wilson Odhiambo 8 May 2026
Indonesian rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Forests, fires and fragile gains: Interview with WRI’s Elizabeth Goldman

David Akana 8 May 2026
Moreangels Mbizah tracking lions in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of the Whitley Foundation.

Conservationist wins top award to protect lions and people in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 30 Apr 2026
Iroro Tanshi and her team members are seen during morphometric data collection in Etankpini village in Odukpani, Cross River State on the 18th of February, 2024

Nigerian bat specialist wins Goldman Prize for community conservation work

Ini Ekott 20 Apr 2026
Kute Hero (right) abandoned his traditional pastoralist livelihood for fishing after most of his livestock perished during a severe drought. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

In northern Kenya, a shifting Lake Turkana reshapes traditional livelihoods

Christopher Clark 14 Apr 2026
In 2023, women working at the Salala plantation told Mongabay their managers often tried to pressure them into sex. Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Second progress report shows little action on World Bank redress plan at Liberian plantation

Victoria Schneider 9 Apr 2026

Malawi says there’s been no illegal crayfish smuggling for a year

Charles Mpaka 8 Apr 2026
Integrated Women’s Development Organization at work in Sidama, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Ruhama Getahun.

Ethiopian women plant trees, restoring lands & livelihoods

Charles Mpaka 1 Apr 2026

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