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Sime Darby signs palm oil deal in Liberia

Environmental campaign blocks palm oil project in Cote d’ Ivoire wetland

Famous Kenyan park experiencing large declines in wildlife

Republic of Congo to turn over 25 M acres of land to South African farmers

Gabonese environmental activist receives prize for standing up to government, Chinese company

Rainforest pillage continues in Madagascar

Droughts lasting centuries in West Africa are commonplace

Kenya signs its first REDD deal to conserve forests

Bird migrations lengthen due to global warming, threatening species

African pygmies diverged from other humans 60,000 years ago

Vanishing forest elephants are the Congo’s greatest cultivators

Revolutionary new theory overturns modern meteorology with claim that forests move rain

Hopeful conservation news emerges out of Madagascar political crisis

Flu epidemic killing bonobos in Congo sanctuary

Fire in Kenya threatens some of the world’s most beloved parks

Scramble to log Madagascar’s valuable rainforest trees in midst of crisis

Bushmeat hunting in Tanzania

Traditional practices contribute to conservation of medicinal plants

DR Congo, Indonesia, PNG, Tanzania, Vietnam win REDD funding for forest conservation

Political turmoil in Madagascar threatens lemurs, parks

Elephants populations in the Congo drop 80 percent in fifty years

Dedicated rock-throwing chimp proves longterm planning

All about giraffes: an interview with a giraffe expert

Only one out of 91 antelope species is on the rise

Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward

Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time

Rainforests absorb 20% of emissions annually

Cameroon gets gorilla park

Fishermen – not whales as claimed by Japan – are the cause of fisheries depletion

Middle class communities are worst managers of fisheries

Political violence in Madagascar may lead Daewoo to abandon controversial farm project

Giant population of lions could live war-torn region

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