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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
A lemur eating a strawberry guava. Image courtesy of Natalee Phelps.

An invasive guava is muscling out Madagascar’s forests — and lemurs are helping

Ryan Truscott 31 Mar 2026
Rangers prepare to load a rhino into a crate at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Uganda. Image courtesy of UWA.

Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda

Benjamin Jumbe 31 Mar 2026
A gemsbok (Oryx gazella), also known as the South African oryx, in a mixed herd of herbivores at Tswalu. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation

John Cannon 27 Mar 2026
The Zanette in the Gqeberha harbour, offloading its catch into a truck belonging to the DSL permit-holder, Fisherman Fresh CC. Image courtesy of Enrico Gennari.

Investigation of permit violations in South Africa’s shark fishery pending

Victoria Schneider 27 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026
An irrigation canal in the Gezira scheme in 2015. Image by Abby Waldorf via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

War exacerbates long-standing irrigation crisis for Sudan farmers

Albashir Dahab 17 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
Reproductive health and oncology nurse Faith Nelima outside the dispensary at Lokichar Girls Secondary School. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Kenya’s renewed oil push faces a tainted legacy

Christopher Clark 17 Mar 2026
Lions. Image courtesy of Kasaine Sankan-Mara Predator Conservation Program.

Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Charles Mpaka 12 Mar 2026
What used to be a dirt road through the heart of the Ngezi Forest Nature Reserve has recently been widened to facilitate development. Image courtesy of Viola Clausnitzer.

Works on planned luxury resort on Pemba island go ahead despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 10 Mar 2026
A vulture nesting colony on Ngethelewan, an inselberg located on the Boma plateau, in South Sudan.

Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings

Ryan Truscott 5 Mar 2026

Beetle known for ravaging mango trees now killing baobabs, study finds

Charles Mpaka 5 Mar 2026
A Turkana elder stands in front of a boma in the settlement of Kapese. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Can Kenya finally deliver on Turkana’s oil promise?

Christopher Clark 2 Mar 2026
A woman standing in a street carries a basin filled with a colourful variety of plastic bottles while in the background there are busy stalls and shoppers in the street. Image by Elliot Ovadje via Flickr.

Recycling startups test limits of private solutions to deluge of waste in Lagos

Abdulwaheed Sofiullahi 20 Feb 2026

Malawi’s solar boom is leaving a toxic legacy of lead waste

Charles Mpaka 20 Feb 2026
A white-backed vulture in Zimbabwe. Image by Chris Collyer/ Birdlife Zimbabwe.

Africa’s vulture safe zones face tough test across vast landscapes

Sean Mowbray 19 Feb 2026
At work in NatCarbon's spekboom nursery.

UN recognition is latest boost to restoring spekboom across South Africa’s semidesert Karoo

Joe Walsh 17 Feb 2026
A mud crab (Scylla serrata) Image by titi-uu via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming

Asha Bekidusa 11 Feb 2026
One of the specimens of Drepanogynis insciata photographed by Cameron Scott.

Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth

Ryan Truscott 11 Feb 2026
Tanoh Jallah, a resident of one of the towns in the IFC complaint, said all the good farmland was taken by Salala.

Community complaints in limbo as Socfin cuts ties with Earthworm Foundation

Ashoka Mukpo, Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Alex Sliwa

Rodent burrows offer unusual sanctuary to Africa’s smallest wildcat

María de los Ángeles Orfila 9 Feb 2026

After intense flooding, Kruger National Park rushes to repair damage

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Feb 2026

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Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.
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