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Tropical forests may flip into carbon sources sooner than feared, study finds

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020
Fishing boat, Inhambane, Mozambique. Image by Gus McLeod via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

East Africa’s reefs being fished at unsustainable rates, study finds

Jim Tan 5 Mar 2020

Poaching and the problem with conservation in Africa (commentary)

Richard Fynn and Oluwatoyin Kolawole 3 Mar 2020

Camera traps confirm presence of lowland gorillas in central mainland Equatorial Guinea for first time in over a decade

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2020

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Asher Elbein 21 Feb 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hatthingh 10 Feb 2020
Hell's Gate National Park. Image by Nao Iizuka via Wikicommons (CC BY 2.0)

Music festival in Kenyan national park ruffles feathers

Gilbert Nakweya 9 Feb 2020

Rhino poaching in South Africa declines for fifth straight year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2020

Lucky ducks: Once thought extinct, rare pochards take steps toward recovery

Edward Carver 6 Feb 2020
Foothills of the Atewa forest range. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana’s government faces pushback in bid to mine biodiversity haven for bauxite

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 5 Feb 2020

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020
Chacma baboons in Tokai. Image by Ted Matherly via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Urban wildlife: Managing Cape Town’s baboons

Heather Richardson 28 Jan 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020

Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees

Malavika Vyawahare, Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jan 2020
Burning a poisoned white-backed vulture carcass. Image courtesy Wildlife ACT.

Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in South Africa

Fred Kockott 29 Dec 2019
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

Action plan for red colobus

Esther Nakkazi 26 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019
Grey Crowned Cranes. Image by Fredrick Mugira for Mongabay.

Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes

Fredrick Mugira 24 Dec 2019
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Scales from around 50,000 pangolins seized by Chinese customs

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2019

Three pangolin species closer to extinction: IUCN

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019

Madagascar: Is NGO-led conservation too conservative to conserve much?

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019

Vervet monkeys thrive despite habitat loss in South Africa

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2019

Breaking down barriers: Cattle and wildlife compete in Southern Africa

Jim Tan 9 Dec 2019

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