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Clearing beached Sargassum in Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Environmental Protection Agency – Sierra Leone

Entangled: How a global seaweed ‘plague’ threatens West Africa’s coastline

Richard Arghiris 11 Nov 2020
Trucks loaded with sugar cane on one of the dirt roads around Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton for Mongabay.

Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest

Thomas Lewton 5 Nov 2020
Elephant, Lopé National Park, Gabon. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s rainforest mega-gardeners go hungry

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams 29 Oct 2020
Tendele mine, Somkhele. Image courtesy Rob Symons.

South African activist killed as contentious coal mine seeks to expand

Fred Kockott, Matthew Hattingh 28 Oct 2020
Man roasting bushmeat. Image by Corinne Staley via Flickr (BY-NC-2.0)

Bushmeat hunting: The greatest threat to Africa’s wildlife?

Jim Tan 26 Oct 2020
Cheetah at Zimanga private game reserve. Image by Charl Senekal

Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs

Tony Carnie 28 Sep 2020
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Beyond tourism: A call for business ideas that protect African wildlife, ecosystems

Heather Richardson 16 Sep 2020
Liz Campbell plays wolf howls into the night. Image by John Wendle for Mongabay.

Howling in the dark: Shining a light on a newly remembered wolf

John Wendle 10 Sep 2020
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Calls for swift action as hundreds of elephants die in Botswana’s Okavango Delta

Ed Holt 2 Jul 2020
Great white carcass, Gansbaai. Image courtesy Hennie Otto/Marine Dynamics

Where are South Africa’s great white sharks?

Heather Richardson 10 Jun 2020
Mature desert locust. Image by Obi Anyadike/The New Humanitarian

Changing climate creates ideal conditions for devastating locust swarms

Gilbert Nakweya 4 Jun 2020
Manyara monkey (Cercepithecus mitis manyaraensis), Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Image courtesy Yvonne de Jong and Tom Butynski.

New to science, Tanzania’s Manyara monkey is already threatened by human activity

Ed Holt 1 Jun 2020
Elephant digging at a baobab tree in Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa, to get to the moisture-rich interior. Since at least 2015, there has been a prolonged drought across Southern Africa. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs

Tristen Taylor and Nathalie Bertrams 29 May 2020
Iroro Tanshi with harp trap at Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary. Image courtesy Iroro Tanshi and Benneth Obitte.

Young Nigerian researcher goes to bat against forest fires

Linus Unah 30 Apr 2020
Hadzabe walinzi wa jadi, or village game scouts patrol the forests of the Yaeda Valley. Their job is to patrol protected forests and report any deforestation, poaching or creation of settlements to local authorities. Their salary is paid by Carbon Tanzania from revenue made from carbon sales. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?

Mantoe Phakathi 29 Apr 2020
ICCN ranger with a gorilla in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image courtesy Nelis Wolmarans.

Twelve rangers killed in latest Virunga Park incident

Fred Kockott 25 Apr 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020
...probably a Natal dwarf puddle frog in the Gambia. Image by Thomas Brown via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA-2.0)

The frog that wasn’t there: Survey shines a light on Uganda’s amphibians

Fredrick Mugira 11 Apr 2020
Pangolin scales seized in Cameroon. Image by Keith Cameron/USFWS via Wikicommons (CC BY 2.0)

As pangolin trade heats up, Nigeria urged to do more to crack down

Linus Unah 2 Apr 2020
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Inside the fight to save the Niger Delta red colobus

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2020
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Palm oil giant Olam under scrutiny again over Gabon plantations

James Fair 25 Mar 2020
Hooded vultures eating a dog carcass in the Gambia. Image by Paul Walter via Wikicommons (CC BY-2.0)

As Guinea-Bissau records mass vulture deaths, poisoning is main suspect

Ed Holt 9 Mar 2020
Fishing boat, Inhambane, Mozambique. Image by Gus McLeod via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

East Africa’s reefs being fished at unsustainable rates, study finds

Jim Tan 5 Mar 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hattingh 10 Feb 2020
Hell's Gate National Park. Image by Nao Iizuka via Wikicommons (CC BY 2.0)

Music festival in Kenyan national park ruffles feathers

Gilbert Nakweya 9 Feb 2020
Foothills of the Atewa forest range. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana’s government faces pushback in bid to mine biodiversity haven for bauxite

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 5 Feb 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020
Chacma baboons in Tokai. Image by Ted Matherly via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Urban wildlife: Managing Cape Town’s baboons

Heather Richardson 28 Jan 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019

Action plan for red colobus

Esther Nakkazi 26 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019
Grey Crowned Cranes. Image by Fredrick Mugira for Mongabay.

Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes

Fredrick Mugira 24 Dec 2019

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Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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