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Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2023
Graine de Vie’s reforestation site in Ambohitantely prior to the October 2022 fire.

Madagascar bush fires prompt exasperated NGO to curtail tree planting

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 1 May 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023

Madagascar: What happens to villagers when a graphite mine comes knocking?

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Apr 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023
Aerial view of a massive pile of black coal looming over a small pool and scattered trees near Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image courtesy Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Authority.

South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”

Anna Weekes 26 Apr 2023
A girl carries sustainably foraged fruits back to her village. Image courtesy of John Novis / Greenpeace.

Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Apr 2023

Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 24 Apr 2023

Camera trap images of rare gorillas with infants bring hope in DRC

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2023
A herd of elephants near the Linyanti River in northern Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Conserve wildlands in southern Africa by protecting Indigenous rights (commentary)

Daniel Kaul 21 Apr 2023
Tanzania protest Ngorongoro

Indigenous Maasai ask the United Nations to intervene on reported human rights abuses

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023
A Micrelaps vaillanti

Scientists make ‘rare’ new identification of snake family: Micrelapidae

Mactilda Mbenywe 21 Apr 2023

Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)

Izzy Sasada 19 Apr 2023

Bankrolling biodiversity: How are private philanthropists investing in nature?

Daniel Pye 14 Apr 2023
Artisanal timber producers in Cameroon. Image by Mokhamad Eldiadi/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.o)

Forests & finance: Protection and restoration in Cameroon and Senegal, fire threat in Angola

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 2023
Captive mountain bongo. Image via Pixabay (CC 0)

Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species

Shadrack Omuka 11 Apr 2023
House on stilts built illegally in the Lowé mangrove in Libreville, Gabon. Proto taken on March 3, 2023 by Elodie Toto

Libreville’s shrinking mangroves leave Gabon’s capital prone to floods

Elodie Toto 6 Apr 2023
Rio Tinto company logo on helmet.

After 150 years of damage to people and planet, Rio Tinto ‘must be held to account’ (commentary)

Saul Jones 5 Apr 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 5 Apr 2023

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023

Wildlife trafficking gradually returns after pandemic lull, mostly by sea

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2023
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Guinea’s crab-fishing chimps are in good health, study shows, but threats loom

Ryan Truscott 3 Apr 2023
A cobalt mine in central Africa.

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2023
A fisher at Kenya's Lake Victoria.

Fish kills leave Kenya’s Lake Victoria farmers at a loss, seeking answers

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 24 Mar 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Jaqueline Sordi 23 Mar 2023
A Pa

Senegal herders demand return of grazing grounds controlled by U.S. firm

Elodie Toto 23 Mar 2023
A female bonobo.

DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria

Ryan Truscott 22 Mar 2023
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

Carbon credits from award-winning Kenyan offset suspended by Verra

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Mar 2023
A wildlife ranger comforts Sudan, the last living male Northern White Rhino left on the planet, moments before he passed away March 19, 2018 at Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. Photo courtesy of Ami Vitale.

Five years since the death of Sudan, new film highlights hope for rhinos

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2023
West African lioness Florence with one of her cubs.

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2023
Fishermen going fishing at Dunga beach, Kisumu.

Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and flowers

Mactilda Mbenywe 17 Mar 2023
Rhino tracker with their back to the camera in the foreground, looking at an alert black rhino in the middle ground. Image by Ultimate Safaris.

Namibian community protects its rhinos from poaching but could lose them to mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

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