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A Humboldt’s woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) explores the forest floor in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Some tree-dwelling primates may adapt more easily to life on the ground, massive study shows

Elise Overgaard 2 Dec 2022
A Gbaya farmer in Mbanti-Mbang, on land left unscathed by the agro-industrial project / Image © Yannick Kenné.

To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry

Yannick Kenné 1 Dec 2022
Image via ‘Young female fighters in African wars: conflict and its consequences’ by Chris Coulter, Mariam Persson and Mats Utas / Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2008 via Matchnox Media Collection (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Environmental peacebuilding must pay more attention to armed groups (commentary)

Judith Verweijen 29 Nov 2022
Saliou Hassana, a 17-year-old gold miner, extracting and collecting gold nuggets using mercury at Kambélé III. Image © Yannick Kenné.

About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 29 Nov 2022
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Weekes 28 Nov 2022

Mountain gorilla reproduction slows with female transfers, study shows

Ini Ekott 24 Nov 2022

COP27 boosts carbon trading and ‘non-market’ conservation: But can they save forests?

Alec Luhn 22 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

Alec Luhn 18 Nov 2022
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Where is the money? Brazil, Indonesia and Congo join forces in push for rainforest protection cash

Shanna Hanbury 18 Nov 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Oil spills, logging and invasive species threaten Niger Delta mangroves

Orji Sunday 18 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022
A researcher tagging a mouse lemur in Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Millions are spent on climate research in Africa. Western institutes get most of it

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2022
Infinity pool from the original Shompole Lodge. Image byDavid Orgel via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

In Kenya, a Maasai community burned by ecotourism gives it another shot

Eve Driver 16 Nov 2022
Indigenous civil society and advocacy organizations discuss. Image courtesy of Rights and Resources Institute.

After 14 years of advocacy, the DRC president finally signs new Indigenous peoples law (commentary)

Patrick Saidi Hemedi 16 Nov 2022
The writhed hornbill, a Philippines endemic species. Image by Olaf Oliviero Riemer via Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Escape into nature’s soundscapes

Mike Gaworecki 16 Nov 2022
Plantation of bananas, teak and cocoa in Yanonge – DRC.  Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 16 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022
Front-end loader in a raw clearing in forests in Sudcam's concession near Cameroon's Dja Faunal Reserve. Image courtesy Nchemty Metimi Ozongashu / Greenpeace.

Forests & Finance: Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2022
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022
Zebras in Okavango Delta.

Protecting the peatlands and woodlands in Angola’s ‘source of life’

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2022

COP27: Climate Loss & Damage talks now on agenda, but U.S. resistance feared

Rachel Donald 8 Nov 2022
Farmers with their crop.

Agroecology can feed Africa and tackle climate change — with enough funding

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Nov 2022
Rosewood logs. Image courtesy of Environmental Investigation Agency.

Will CITES finally act to protect rosewood this month? (commentary)

Mark Roberts 4 Nov 2022
Laborers at a cobalt mine.

Element Africa: Keeping platinum in the ground, and minors out of mines

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2022

Is natural gas the solution to Africa’s energy needs? New research says no.

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
Shoebills are one of the endangered species that rely on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Image by Emilie Chen via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

East Africa should promote renewable energy, not oil pipelines (commentary)

Dickens Kamugisha 1 Nov 2022
A gorilla at the habituation project in Campo Ma'an National Park. Image courtesy Campo Ma'an National Park via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Forests & Finance: From logging in Cameroon to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Weekes 24 Oct 2022
The Gabonese and Congolese forests help to create the rainfall in the Sahel. Image by Axel Rouvin via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Tracking the moves of Asian forestry companies in Central Africa (analysis)

Alain Karsenty 21 Oct 2022

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