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Adaptation to climate change will be difficult for Madagascar

Newly discovered monkey is critically endangered by logging, poaching

The end of migrations: wildlife’s greatest spectacle is critically endangered

14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests

Rainforest conservation could offset 500m tons of CO2 emissions at $2/ton

New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat

Parks help people to the detriment of biodiversity, suggests study

Chameleon has shortest life span of any four-legged animal

Lion die-offs in Africa linked to global warming

Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro’s bamboo enigma

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?

Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar’s rainforests

Wildlife conservationist in Tanzania awarded prestigious prize

Congo pygmies use GPS to map eco-certified timber concession

Biofuels expansion in Africa may impact rainforests, wetlands

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Energy firm to mine oil sands in the Republic of Congo

2 billion trees planted in 18 months

World’s rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve

Mobile game to help save embattled gorillas in the Congo

Indigenous peoples of Congo map their forests with GPS in an effort to save them

Africa’s lions are disappearing

Photos of rare pygmy hippo in Liberia

Half of Madagascar’s amphibians may still await discovery

Madagascar’s deforestation rate drops 8-fold in parks

Screaming elephant-cousin threatened by logging

Aye-aye diverged from other lemurs 66M years ago

Rainforest logging threatens endangered sea turtles

Cyclone batters Madagascar

First photos of face-to-face mating by gorillas in the wild

Madagascar’s tortoises at high risk of extinction in the wild

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