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Best of 2012 – Glowing red-orange fungi in Madagascar

China plans over 300 dam projects worldwide

Poaching in Serengeti seems worth the risk

New inroads made into bushmeat consumption in Tanzania

Vanishing corridors: trying to keep big animals on the move across Tanzania

Best of 2012 – Rainforest of Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula

Okapi Conservation Project wins mongabay’s 2012 conservation award

Lion population falls 68 percent in 50 years

Africa’s great savannahs may be more endangered than the world’s rainforests

Pledge to end wildlife trafficking for Wildlife Conservation Day

Despite small brains, gray mouse lemurs use calls to avoid inbreeding

Best of 2012 – Nile River sunset in Aswan

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainforest for palm oil

A new way to rescue Africa’s struggling soils: Planting perennials with crops

Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia’s highlands

Cell phones help decipher malaria transmission in Kenya

Activists protesting controversial Cameroon palm plantation arrested

Mountain gorilla population up by over 20 percent in five years

Photos: Mozambique creates Africa’s biggest marine protected area

Greater bamboo lemur removed from ‘most endangered primates’ list

Cute animal picture of the day: baby giraffe

Tanzania weighs new soda ash plant in prime flamingo territory

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Meet Cape Town’s volunteer ‘toad shepherds’

Crowned lemur in Madagascar

‘The ivory trade is like drug trafficking’ (warning graphic images)

Artificial ‘misting system’ allows vanished toad to be released back into the wild

Mysteries surrounding the legendary and vanishing oriental bald ibis

Gorgeous Parson’s chameleon

Rebels kill 3 rangers in Congo’s Virunga National Park

Illegal hunting threatens iconic animals across Africa’s great savannas, especially predators

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