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Scientists successfully freeze Barbary sheep embryos for conservation purposes

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Invasive plants hurt locals in Mauritius

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Forgotten lions: shedding light on the fate of lions in unprotected areas

Patricia O'neill 18 Mar 2013

Innovative idea: wildlife income may help people withstand drought in Africa

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2013

Deforestation in key Madagascar park accelerated after 2009 coup d’etat, finds satellite analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Mar 2013

Elephant woes: conservationists mixed on elephant actions at CITES

Jeremy Hance 14 Mar 2013

Dozens of tropical trees awarded new protections at CITES

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2013

Prayers for dying elephants: Buddhists hold prayer ceremony for elephants decimated by poachers

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Conservationists: ban the wild cheetah pet trade

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2013

What happened to the elephants of Bouba Ndjida? [warning: graphic photos]

Christina M. Russo 7 Mar 2013

The end of wild Africa?: lions may need fences to survive

Jeremy Hance 6 Mar 2013

62% of all Africa’s forest elephants killed in 10 years (warning: graphic images)

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2013

New illegal logging ban in EU could sever all ties with companies working in DRC

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2013

Thailand’s Prime Minister commits to ending ivory trade

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2013

Violence in Kenya’s Tana River Delta stems from natural resource conflict

Stephanie Jones 2 Mar 2013

Frogs radio-tracked for first time in Madagascar

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2013

Elephant massacre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2013

Guide for filing complaints on rule-breaking by palm oil companies published

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2013

Scientists: stop treating population growth as a ‘given’ and empower women

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2013

Travel in Madagascar: strange wildlife and stunning landscapes

Dr Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2013

Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmental artist ventures into the Congo

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2013

A lifetime with elephants: an interview with Iain Douglas-Hamilton

Laurel Neme 22 Feb 2013

Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Madagascar and Malaysian Borneo nature pictures go online

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2013

World’s biggest camera trapping program hits 1 million photos of tropical animals (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2013

In search of conflict-free tin from the Congo

Guest Mike Loch 12 Feb 2013

Activists blast World Bank on continued support of industrial rainforest logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2013

Pity the pangolin: little-known mammal most common victim of the wildlife trade

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2013

Report: nearly half the timber from Mozambique to China is illegal

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

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