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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

Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa

Victoria Schneider 24 Mar 2026

South Africa endorses treaty to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2026

Rights violations prompt world’s largest sovereign wealth fund to divest from Bolloré

Victoria Schneider 11 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

Due to their nonselective nature, shark nets and drum lines frequently kill sharks that don’t pose a threat to humans. Image from "Monsters" courtesy of Skyler Thomas.

Proposed shark net near Club Med resort in South Africa sparks conservation clash

Victoria Schneider 4 Mar 2026

Mozambique was the hardest hit by the heavy rains in the last few months, since it’s located downstream of nine international rivers. Image © European Union, 2025 (Peter Biro) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Floods linked to climate change hit nearly 1 million in Southern Africa

Victoria Schneider 17 Feb 2026

Banks decline to finance LNG project in Papua New Guinea

Victoria Schneider 11 Feb 2026

African penguins at a beach in Simon's Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Unidentified oil washes up on South African beaches

Victoria Schneider 10 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

A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).

Critical shark and ray habitats in Western Indian Ocean largely unprotected: Study

Victoria Schneider 6 Feb 2026

South Africa’s great white shark population worries researchers

Victoria Schneider 13 Jan 2026

Canceled tourism project still threatens local communities in Tanzania

Victoria Schneider 13 Jan 2026

Myotis nimbaensis, shown here, is a new species of bat named for the mountain range in which it is found, the Nimba Mountains in West Africa. Photo © Kendra Snyder / Bat Conservation International.

Rare bats at risk as iron ore mine advances in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains

Victoria Schneider 30 Dec 2025

TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG Afungi Park construction site. Image courtesy of Justiça Ambiental.

UK, Dutch agencies pull funding from Total’s controversial Mozambique LNG project

Victoria Schneider 10 Dec 2025

South Africa withdraws abalone listing even as illegal trade threatens species

Victoria Schneider 8 Dec 2025

Countries back strong new trade limits for sharks and rays at CITES summit

Victoria Schneider 3 Dec 2025

An engineer observes the operation of solar panels in Cotonou, Benin.

Experts say wealthy nations owe Africa double its climate adaptation needs

Victoria Schneider 21 Nov 2025

A coral grouper in a Mozambique coral reef.

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique

Victoria Schneider 18 Nov 2025

A hill in the main Karoo Basin, near the area where exploration would take place. Image by flowcomm via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

South Africa to lift fracking moratorium in Karoo Basin, despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 17 Nov 2025

Construction site of the TotalEnergies-operated Afungi LNG plant. Image courtesy of Justiça Ambiental.

TotalEnergies moves to restart Mozambique LNG project despite security, eco concerns

Victoria Schneider 13 Nov 2025

A TotalEnergies petrol station in Handeni Tanga, Tanzania. Image by Praygod mwanga via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025

Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025

South African sharks threatened by fisheries, weak enforcement

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025

An Eskom power station in South Africa's Mpumalanga province. Image courtesy of Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp (CCBY-ND4.0).

South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments

Victoria Schneider 20 Oct 2025

Egyptian activists rally to halt hotel project at pristine protected beach

Victoria Schneider 30 Sep 2025

Fishers with their canoes in São Tomé.

São Tomé and Príncipe commits to creating a marine protected area network

Victoria Schneider 19 Sep 2025

South African Wild Coast communities challenge Shell in Constitutional Court

Victoria Schneider 18 Sep 2025

A view of oil palm groves on the Socapalm plantation from the village of Apouh. Image by Yannick Kenné for Mongabay.

Palm oil giant Socapalm still planting on disputed land in Cameroon as villagers seek redress

Victoria Schneider 9 Sep 2025

Jorkporlorsue town, surrounded by rubber trees owned by Salala Rubber Corporation. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Liberian communities await justice at Salala rubber plantation after World Bank complaint

Victoria Schneider 29 Aug 2025

Ghana passes landmark legislation to protect artisanal fisheries

Victoria Schneider 22 Aug 2025

View of central Kampala.

From counting trees to enhancing climate resiliency, Kampala focuses on its forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025

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Collage of a red-bellied toad and a bridge broken by flood

Birds crowded and under severe stress make open-air markets like the Parangaba Fair in Fortaleza ideal locations for the spread of diseases.

The WeMUNIZE program in Nigeria, significantly disrupted by aid cuts, used digital record keeping and community engagement to increase early childhood immunizations. Image by KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

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