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A fishing community settlement in Salonga

Catfished: New species described from DRC after mistaken identity

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2022
A Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

World’s smallest primate is fading into extinction, scientists fear

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Sep 2022

Africa wants its climate money. Will rich countries pay?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Sep 2022
A cattle herder in a cattle camp

Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&A with author Guillaume Blanc

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022
Logging in Borneo.

Industrial mining’s tropical deforestation footprint spills beyond concessions

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Sep 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

As a Cameroon palm oil firm gets RSPO certified, it’s also found in breach

Victoria Schneider 9 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A miner panning for gold in a gold-bearing basin using mercury

Chinese companies criticized for mercury pollution in Cameroon

Christophe Nyemeck Beat 5 Sep 2022
School of Wildlife Conservation students in the field. Photo courtesy of ALU

It’s time to center African people in the conservation agenda (commentary)

Gail Thomson 24 Aug 2022
A side-striped jackal (Lupulella adusta), one of the many species that inhabits the Mau Forest. Image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Poverty-fueled deforestation threatens Kenya’s largest water catchment

Keit Silale 22 Aug 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive species

Orji Sunday 22 Aug 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Senegal's President Macky Sall on May 20, 2022.

As Europe eyes Africa’s gas reserves, environmentalists sound the alarm

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Aug 2022
A leopard in a tree

Snares: Low-tech, low-profile killers of rare wildlife the world over

Laurel Neme 18 Aug 2022
A red river hog.

In Gabon, camera-trap developers find the ideal proving ground for their craft

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 18 Aug 2022
Hafidh Wanje stands near a creek.

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Anthony Langat 18 Aug 2022
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Let it grow: Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo

Erik Hoffner 17 Aug 2022
A water reservoir near Cape Town, South Africa.

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Anna Weekes 11 Aug 2022

Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers

Basten Gokkon 10 Aug 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022
A male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Weekes 5 Aug 2022
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle

Sean Mowbray 1 Aug 2022
A white rhino browsing grass. Image by Brook Ward via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Estacio Valoi 1 Aug 2022

Kigali call to action a step forward but not far enough, Indigenous and local leaders say

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Jul 2022
A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022
A refugee from Nigeria walks in the Minawao refugee camp.

Nigerian refugees in Cameroon turn biomass into charcoal to spare trees

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 27 Jul 2022

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