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Two researchers pulling seine net through estuarine waters searching for pipefish. Image courtesy of Jason Boswell.

Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health

Sean Mowbray 3 May 2022
Professional hunter (left) with a hunting guest (right) in Namibia. Image by Mikael Tham via Wikidmedia Commons.

Reframing trophy hunting’s socio-economic benefits in Namibia (commentary)

Frowin Becker 28 Apr 2022
China’s distant-water fishing fleet, which operates on the high seas and in other countries’ waters, is far bigger and catches far more seafood than those of other nations.

Boats behaving badly: New report analyzes China’s own fisheries data

Elizabeth Fitt 28 Apr 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022
Seagrass in Tanzania.

To get people thinking about seagrass, Seychelles coins new Creole words

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2022
Burundian soldiers in a nursery.

In Burundi, one-time combatants who razed forests now raise seedlings

Dieudonné Ndanezerewe 21 Apr 2022
A mother and baby gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.

Road projects threaten integrity of Uganda’s mountain gorilla stronghold

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2022
(Banner Image: An aerial view of the flooding at the Air Force Base in Durban. Image courtesy of South African National Defence Force.)

South Africa declares national emergency as flood toll crosses 440

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2022
Collage of Romi Castagnino, Mongabay reporter, and a gorilla

Protecting the last Cross-River gorillas | Chasing Deforestation

Romi Castagnino 14 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Road constructed into the forest path near the Liboumba River.

In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve

Benjamin Evine-Binet 12 Apr 2022
One of many homes burnt and destroyed in a major attack targeting Batwa villages in July 2021.

Rangers in DRC gorilla park abused Indigenous villagers, report says

Laurel Sutherland 7 Apr 2022
Desert elephant with young. Damaraland, Namibia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Export of elephants to UAE drags Namibia wildlife policy into the spotlight

Ryan Truscott 7 Apr 2022

Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season

Mike Gaworecki 7 Apr 2022

Photography, nature, truth and war: Q&A with top photographer Ami Vitale

Erik Hoffner 6 Apr 2022

Saving Nigeria’s gorillas was also meant to help communities. It hasn’t (analysis).

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2022
Rosewood stacked for river transport in Madagascar, 2010.

Madagascar’s insistence on using seized rosewood rattles conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Mar 2022
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Schmidt, Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022
A Taita falcon. Image courtesy of Alan Kemp.

Stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon discovered in reserve threatened by Mozambique insurgency

Ryan Truscott 24 Mar 2022

Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2022

Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)

Timothy A. Wise 22 Mar 2022

‘Studying a ghost’: In Cape Town, urban caracals give researchers lots to ponder

Grace Hansen 21 Mar 2022

Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try

Didier Makal 17 Mar 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Can we plan for a future without trophy hunting? (commentary)

Merrill Sapp 16 Mar 2022
Zimbabwe farmer seed

Farmers rediscover benefits of traditional small grains in Zimbabwe

Tatenda Chitagu 15 Mar 2022

Civil conflict in Cameroon puts endangered chimpanzees in the crosshairs

Aminateh Nkemngu 15 Mar 2022
Chimpanzee

Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2022

‘Comical’ bat not seen in 40 years is found again in a Rwandan park

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022

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