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In Mozambique, mystery of tuskless elephant points to poaching as the culprit

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2021

‘A leap of faith’: Q&A with Robin Radcliffe on airlifting rhinos upside down

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2021

After a pandemic reprieve, loggers return to a unique Madagascar forest

Rivonala Razafison 10 Nov 2021

Outgunned by militants, rangers fear for chimpanzees in southwest Mali

Lucrèce Aminata Kanté 5 Nov 2021
China-funded road-construction project in the Congo Basin. Credit: William Laurance.

Infrastructure projects in Congo Basin need greater oversight, report says

Jim Tan 4 Nov 2021
Najin the Rhino

One of world’s last two northern white rhinos withdrawn from breeding program

Carolyn Cowan 1 Nov 2021

Hundreds of NGOs sign open letter calling to halt “illegal activities” in DRC’s protected areas

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Oct 2021

World Lemur Day celebrated in Madagascar with new postage stamps

Erik Hoffner 29 Oct 2021
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Deforestation soars in Nigeria’s gorilla habitat: ‘We are running out of time’

Orji Sunday 29 Oct 2021
AFIEGO staff with two supporters after their release from jail. Image courtesy AFIEGO.

Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders

Terna Gyuse 28 Oct 2021
Baobab tree

In Zimbabwe, an irrigation project threatens a tribe’s land and trees

Tatenda Chitagu 27 Oct 2021

Deprived of their forests, Uganda’s Batwa adapt their sustainable practices

Adolf Ayoreka 27 Oct 2021

NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2021

On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Orji Sunday 25 Oct 2021
Planting mangroves at Junda village, near Mombasa, Kenya. Image by Kang Chun Cheng.

Mangrove conservation takes root with local communities on Kenya’s coast

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Oct 2021

COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do

Ryan Truscott 22 Oct 2021
Protest against Tendele, 2018. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Opposition to South Africa coal mine persists a year after murder of activist

Victoria Schneider 22 Oct 2021

Drones are a knife in the gunfight against poaching. But they’re leveling up

Caitlin Looby 18 Oct 2021

Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Oct 2021

Who benefits from resource extraction in the DRC?

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2021

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2021

Mixed signals from Gabon officials to villagers fighting to save a forest

Benjamin Evine-Binet 11 Oct 2021

High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary

David Kalinga Safari 8 Oct 2021

Tracking white-bellied pangolins in Nigeria, the new global trafficking hub

Gianluca Cerullo 7 Oct 2021

Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention

Ed Holt 6 Oct 2021

Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist

Claude Sengenya 6 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021
Fallen giant: a member of the survey team inspects the remains of a felled African zebrawood in Ebo Forest  Image courtesy Eric Nana.

Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction

Ryan Truscott 4 Oct 2021

For Adams Cassinga, fighting wildlife trafficking in DRC is a life mission

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Sep 2021

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