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Kenya’s clothing waste raises concerns about potential public health risks

Ouma Elvine Tina 26 Aug 2026
Round concrete sign painted with a stylised moon and sea in blues and white, towers over cars at a roundabout in Calabar, Cross River State. it reads "Destination Cross River State: the nation's paradise"

Nigeria can build the new coastal highway and also protect natural areas (commentary)

Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud 26 Aug 2026
James Giahyue, editor-in-chief of The DayLight, a Liberian environmental news magazine. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘They will do it legally or illegally’: Interview with James Giahyue on Liberia’s cocoa boom

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2026
A Kenya Wildlife Service team rescued this elephant that was stuck in the mud in Muchuro, Isiolo County, on Aug. 22, 2026. Image courtesy of KWS.

Kenyan investigators arrest 4 people linked to 18 Amboseli elephant deaths

Lynet Otieno 26 Aug 2026
Harvesting timber in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. Image by York Timbers (Fair Use).

In South Africa, renewable energy latest part of timber industry’s green efforts

Mkhululi Chimoio 26 Aug 2026
A team from the nonprofit ASD Monde responding to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. Image courtesy of ASD Monde.

Polluted waterways and water shortages complicate the fight against Ebola in the DRC

Elodie Toto 26 Aug 2026

Congo’s Ebola outbreak records one of its highest weekly death tolls yet

Associated Press 25 Aug 2026
Traders sorting through cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

EU’s deforestation rule could derail Liberia’s cocoa trade

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026

In Spain & South Africa, communities use restoration to ‘grow’ fire insurance (commentary)

Claire Patterson, Penelope Choussat 24 Aug 2026
A colony of Cape Fur seals during a euthanasia attempt of a Cape Fur seal suspected of having rabies at Seal Island in False Bay in Cape Town, South Africa on August 07, 2024. Image by Matrix Images / Nic Bothma.

A deadly cross over: In South Africa, rabies moves from land animals to seals

Nic Bothma 24 Aug 2026
Aerial view of the Cuanavale river, which runs through the Angolan Highlands and joins the Cuito River. Image courtesy of Zach Vincent for National Geographic.

Angola’s peatlands highly underestimated, new study suggests

Victoria Schneider 21 Aug 2026
A black-bellied pangolin rescued from poachers, released by the Sangha Pangolin Project in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy of Rod Cassidy via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC.

To secure protected areas from wildlife trafficking, criminal networks must be dismantled (commentary)

Ofir Drori 20 Aug 2026
Red Sea coastal landscape. Image courtesy of Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun.

Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)

Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun 19 Aug 2026

‘Remembering Wildlife’ shines a spotlight on the species we risk losing forever

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Aug 2026
Malawian farmer Laston Mchiswe watering cabbage that he will sell to markets in the nearby city of Blantyre to earn money for food for his own family. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Land crisis and ‘green revolution’ practices trap millions of Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 18 Aug 2026
A migrant worker in a cacao farm in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026
Fisherpeople in Port St. Johns, Eastern Cape. Image courtesy of Aletta Harrison CC BY 4.0.

South Africa’s top court blocks Shell oil exploration off country’s Wild Coast

Victoria Schneider 17 Aug 2026
Steve Smit. From his Facebook page

Steve Smit, South Africa’s “Monkey Man,” has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2026
John Salehe. Photo courtesy of AWF

John Salehe helped shape Tanzania’s community conservation movement

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2026
Olga Muthambe, Mozambican social activist and Executive Director of the NGO Hikone Moçambique. Image courtesy of Olga Muthambe.

‘To speak of agroecology is to speak of farmers’ autonomy’: Interview with Olga Muthambe

Far Vubil 14 Aug 2026
Volunteers work in a vegetable field belonging to Tiyani Secondary School where the manure is thrown after gas is extracted. Image by Bernard Chiguvare.

South Africa school uses cattle dung to generate biogas for cooking meals

Bernard Chiguvare 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026
Dead fish in the Kafue River near the town of Luanshya, Zambia, a day after the tailings dam spill, Feb. 19, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Kille.

A mine polluted a Zambian river in 2025: Residents continue to live with the impacts

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026
Manganese nodules on the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton zone that's been considered for deep-sea mining. Image by ROV KIEL 6000, GEOMAR - Geomar Bilddatenbank via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Six African countries now support precautionary pause on deep-seabed mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026
Street trees shading an asphalt road in Málaga, Spain. While trees are the obvious go-to cooling solution, their upkeep can be expensive.

Urban heat islands have solutions; many tropical cities can’t afford them

Adam Litchkofski 13 Aug 2026
Preparing to enter an Ebola treatment unit during the 2014 outbreak. Image by Athalia Christie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

As DRC confronts largest Ebola outbreak, health agencies revise strategy

Mongabay.org 12 Aug 2026
Cape Three Points, Ghana. Image courtesy of Hεn Mpoano.

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area

Mabel Adorkor Annang 12 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
forest elephants in Gabon. Image © Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

World Elephant Day: How these giants are adapting to a changing world

David Brown 12 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026
Chimpanzees at Tacugama

What makes chimpanzee conservation last? Lessons from Sierra Leone

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026

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