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A migrant worker in a cacao farm in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026
Fisherpeople in Port St. Johns, Eastern Cape. Image courtesy of Aletta Harrison CC BY 4.0.

South Africa’s top court blocks Shell oil exploration off country’s Wild Coast

Victoria Schneider 17 Aug 2026
Steve Smit. From his Facebook page

Steve Smit, South Africa’s “Monkey Man,” has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2026
John Salehe. Photo courtesy of AWF

John Salehe helped shape Tanzania’s community conservation movement

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2026
Olga Muthambe, Mozambican social activist and Executive Director of the NGO Hikone Moçambique. Image courtesy of Olga Muthambe.

‘To speak of agroecology is to speak of farmers’ autonomy’: Interview with Olga Muthambe

Far Vubil 14 Aug 2026
Volunteers work in a vegetable field belonging to Tiyani Secondary School where the manure is thrown after gas is extracted. Image by Bernard Chiguvare.

South Africa school uses cattle dung to generate biogas for cooking meals

Bernard Chiguvare 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026
Dead fish in the Kafue River near the town of Luanshya, Zambia, a day after the tailings dam spill, Feb. 19, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Kille.

A mine polluted a Zambian river in 2025: Residents continue to live with the impacts

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026
Manganese nodules on the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton zone that's been considered for deep-sea mining. Image by ROV KIEL 6000, GEOMAR - Geomar Bilddatenbank via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Six African countries now support precautionary pause on deep-seabed mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026
Street trees shading an asphalt road in Málaga, Spain. While trees are the obvious go-to cooling solution, their upkeep can be expensive.

Urban heat islands have solutions; many tropical cities can’t afford them

Adam Litchkofski 13 Aug 2026
Preparing to enter an Ebola treatment unit during the 2014 outbreak. Image by Athalia Christie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

As DRC confronts largest Ebola outbreak, health agencies revise strategy

Mongabay.org 12 Aug 2026
Cape Three Points, Ghana. Image courtesy of Hεn Mpoano.

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area

Mabel Adorkor Annang 12 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
forest elephants in Gabon. Image © Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

World Elephant Day: How these giants are adapting to a changing world

David Brown 12 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026
Chimpanzees at Tacugama

What makes chimpanzee conservation last? Lessons from Sierra Leone

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026
Artisanal fishers at Cocobeach, Gabon. Photo by Ralph Messi on Unsplash.

Gabon ends fisheries partnership agreement with EU

Victoria Schneider 10 Aug 2026
A lion in Zambia.

World Lion Day: The communities living with lions

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2026
Michelle Schroeder and her dog, Lyka in Benfontein Nature Reserve. Image courtesy of Veer Bills.

From small cats to pangolins: Detection dogs help track elusive species

María de los Ángeles Orfila 8 Aug 2026
Thermal imagery captured by a drone used by a ranger unit in Amboseli. Image courtesy of Big Life Foundation.

Thermal drones deployed in Kenya’s Amboseli Park to tackle human-elephant conflict

Aimable Twahirwa 7 Aug 2026
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote. Photo courtesy of The Habari Network.

Environmental activists in Kenya concerned over billionaire’s planned oil refinery

Amina Chombo 5 Aug 2026
Harvesting sorghum in Sudan in 2011. Image by Africa Renewal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Global hunger levels fall but Africa still lags behind, UN report finds

Charles Mpaka 4 Aug 2026
Fishing boats in Luanda Kotieno.

Kenyans protesting nuclear facility face terrorism investigation

Elodie Toto 4 Aug 2026
A worker disinfects himself at the Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia, DRC. Image by Prosper Heri Ngorora.

Ebola responders persevere in the DRC as Uganda nears end of outbreak

Elodie Toto 3 Aug 2026
Heavy machinery is used to excavate pristine beaches for diamond mining along South Africa’s West Coast. Image courtesy of Arthur Neumeier.

Documentary captures impacts of diamond mining along South Africa’s West Coast

Victoria Schneider 3 Aug 2026
Lithops werneri © Sonja Loots/National Botanical Research Institute of Namibia.

Rare living stone plant, found in a tiny area in Namibia, is critically endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Aug 2026
A view of Kariba Dam. Image by JonTG via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Climate shocks hit hydropower in Southern Africa, reviving interest in coal

Chisapi Kumbutso 31 Jul 2026
Most tourists who travel to the Central African Republic (CAR) are drawn by the western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Dzanga-Sangha National Park. Image by Rhett A. Butler/ Mongabay.

Central African Republic’s Dzanga-Sangha tests the promise of wildlife tourism

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2026

World Ranger Day: Justice for the protectors of the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2026
Deforestation and the enteric fermentation from the cattle that supply its slaughterhouses comprise 97% of JBS' overall greenhouse emissions, according to the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022. Even so, these impacts were ignored by the company's climate targets. Image courtesy of Marcio Isensee e Sá/O Eco.

Before giant meat producer JBS expands to Nigeria, people deserve answers (commentary)

Felix Horne 31 Jul 2026
Field rangers in Namibia. Image courtesy of GRAA.

It’s time we recognize the roles of rangers — and prioritize their safety (commentary)

Louise de Bruin 30 Jul 2026

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