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Yellow-billed kites are found across Africa and play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy as one of the most common scavengers.

Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

Sean Mowbray 7 Jul 2026
Community members collect plastic waste during a beach cleanup organized by COMRED on Kenya’s coast. Image courtesy of COMRED.

‘The only possible transition is a just transition’: Interview with WEF’s Clemence Schmid

Jackson Ambole Okata 7 Jul 2026

As East Africa’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods

Associated Press 6 Jul 2026

The women leading a quiet conservation revolution in a Nigerian gorilla sanctuary

Orji Sunday 6 Jul 2026
A fin whale captured off the coast of Lüderitz, Namibia, in 2014. Image courtesy of Sara Golaski for the Namibian Dolphin Project.

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding

David Brown 6 Jul 2026
A farmer in Mwanza district: the Malawi chapter of the Rural Women’s Assembly works to help women like these learn how to practice agroforestry, protect soil health, and secure loans to improve their farms. Image by Swathi Sridharan/ICRISAT via Flick (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Malawi agroecologists see opportunity in Gulf fertilizer supply disruption

Charles Mpaka 3 Jul 2026
Peter Kitur, a 72-year-old farmer in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya, who buys the government subsidized fertilizer. Photo by Achieng' Otieino/Mongabay.

Running on empty: How the gulf war is threatening Kenya’s food security

Achieng’ Otieno 3 Jul 2026
An experimental line of orange corn enriched with provitamin A, harvested in Zambia. Photo by CIMMYT via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Zambia’s bumper harvest masks likely food insecurity amid geopolitics and climate threats

Chisapi Kumbutso 3 Jul 2026
Lentinus squarrosulus mushrooms. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers in Nigeria successfully cultivate wild mushroom in agricultural waste

David Brown 3 Jul 2026
The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026
A leopard in Pendjari NP, in 2022. Camera traps were placed along likely travel routes and positioned to photograph both sides of the leopards to aid with identification. The researchers were able to identify 30 individual leopards from their unique spot patterns. Image courtesy of ZSL-CCI/Panthera/APN-Pendjari National Park.

Endangered West African leopards show signs of recovery, despite odds. ‘It’s a win’

Ruth Kamnitzer 2 Jul 2026
Gelada monkeys engage in a group hug in Wilhelma Zoo in Germany. Image © Julie Larsen.

Gelada monkeys huddle in the cold: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2026
Researcher Ricardo Marques visiting a forest seedling nursery in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Hylaea.

Secret Amazon species may be new source of ibogaine for addiction treatment

Jenny Gonzales 30 Jun 2026

Human rights abuse allegations continue to rise in the mining sector, report finds

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jun 2026
Vans line up waiting for a kill in Maasai Mara, Kenya.

Kenya’s overcrowded safaris: Wildlife for who?

Izzy Sasada 28 Jun 2026

Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea

David Akana 27 Jun 2026
According to Lovin Kobusingye, the women who catch, process and sell fish are still largely missing from conversations about Africa's growing blue economy. Photo: Environmental Justice Foundation.

A trailblazing Ugandan championing women in African fisheries: Q&A with Lovin Kobusingye

David Akana 26 Jun 2026
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
Mangroves along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast. Image by Malavika Vyawahare/Mongabay.

Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ends with $6.4 billion in pledges, review of past promises

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jun 2026
African grey parrot is an endangered species native to Central and West Africa

Seizures reveal macabre grey parrot blood trade in Cameroon

Spoorthy Raman 25 Jun 2026
Alice Kazungu, a fishmonger and vice chair of the newly formed Mida Beach Management Unit (BMU), in Watamu, Kenya. Image by David Akana/Mongabay.

In Kenya’s Mida Creek, fishers confront a changing ocean with hope

David Akana 25 Jun 2026
Fishers in Sahamalaza-Iles Radama Marine Protected Area. Image courtesy of Madagascar National Parks.

Six marine sanctuaries recognized as Blue Parks, four of them in Africa

Malavika Vyawahare 24 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
Kusile Power Station, South Africa's largest plant at 4,800 MW, on the outskirts of eMalahleni. Image by Joe Walsh for Mongabay.

Failed promises to clean air in South Africa’s coal belt take toll on public health

Joe Walsh 24 Jun 2026
A hooded vulture. Image by Mibby23 via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Hope for vultures in Nigeria as some belief-based users adopt plant alternatives

Sean Mowbray 24 Jun 2026
While caracals are classified as species of least concern overall, some populations are seriously declining, with some local extinctions; rodenticides join habitat loss, hunting, conflict with humans and other threats to their survival.

Rodent-killing baits threaten small wild cats and other wildlife

Sean Mowbray 23 Jun 2026
A bonobo observes its surroundings from the canopy in Salonga National Park. Earning the trust of wild bonobos is a painstaking process that begins before dawn and can take years to achieve. Photo by Alice Péretié / Chengeta Wildlife.

Before tourists can see bonobos, trackers must earn their trust

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 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

EU votes to end illegal logging agreement with Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jun 2026
The remnants of Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest within Sierra Leone are home to a multitude of species, many of them threatened, such as the white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A few seconds with one of West Africa’s rarest birds

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026
Transvaal Thicktail Scorpion (Parabuthus transvaalicus) is one of the two venomous scorpion species in South Africa whose stings could be fatal to humans

South African authorities thwart smuggling of 150 venomous scorpions, arrest man

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2026
: A pair of hooded vultures. Image by Nico Arcilla.

Demand for vultures in West Africa threatens Central African populations

Sean Mowbray 19 Jun 2026

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