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Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen | Janvier Murairi | Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

Community conservation in Namibia requires balance and understanding (commentary)

Gail Potgieter 29 May 2019

In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

What is magic without ape parts? Inside the illicit trade devastating Nigeria’s apes

Orji Sunday 29 May 2019

Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019

Lions vs. porcupines: A thorny tale with a moral about man-eaters

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

Fighting corruption in Liberia through on-the-ground reporting (insider)

Ashoka Mukpo 7 May 2019
Aba Gada Kabeto Edamo Wabe(r), leader of the Oda Roba and Aba Gada Azmach Teshita, Sammato Bullo (l) leader of the Hambentu clan pose for a portrait inside Senekele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese.

In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 6 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)

Sophie Erfurth 3 May 2019

Hippos poop a lot of silica, and that’s critical for Africa’s rivers and lakes

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2019

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

Rachel Fritts 1 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019

That Malagasy forest featured in Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’? It’s vanishing fast

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Apr 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Singapore acquits trader in world’s biggest rosewood bust, worth $50m

Edward Carver 19 Apr 2019

U.S. companies implicated in illegal timber trade from West Africa

James Fair 18 Apr 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019
The savannah and grasslands of the Mara conservancies are home to a spectacular abundance of wildlife, lying at the northern end of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Photo Credit: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Human pressure on the Serengeti’s fringes threatens the wildlife within

Ignacio Amigo 12 Apr 2019

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