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Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) mother and calf as seen from the air. Image by Christin Khan NOAA/NEFSC via Wikimedia. (CC BY-SA 4.0).

With high seas treaty in place, West African countries plan for protected area

Victoria Schneider 31 Mar 2026

Conservation depends on rangers. Their wellbeing is often an afterthought

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2026
Rangers prepare to load a rhino into a crate at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, Uganda. Image courtesy of UWA.

Decades after poaching drove them extinct, rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda

Benjamin Jumbe 31 Mar 2026

‘Extraordinary’: Second set of rare mountain gorilla twins born in DRC’s Virunga

David Akana 30 Mar 2026

Zambia seizes half-ton of ivory in major illegal wildlife crime operation

Charles Mpaka 28 Mar 2026

A Kenyan ranger’s lasting imprint on Africa’s anti-poaching efforts

Lynet Otieno 27 Mar 2026
A gemsbok (Oryx gazella), also known as the South African oryx, in a mixed herd of herbivores at Tswalu. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation

John Cannon 27 Mar 2026
The Zanette in the Gqeberha harbour, offloading its catch into a truck belonging to the DSL permit-holder, Fisherman Fresh CC. Image courtesy of Enrico Gennari.

Investigation of permit violations in South Africa’s shark fishery pending

Victoria Schneider 27 Mar 2026
Fisherman Chapoka Miongo speaks from his traditional dugout canoe at the Shimoni channel, in Kwale county, Kenya, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Artisanal fisheries on Kenya's coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign vessels and a lack of other job opportunities for coastal communities is draining the Indian Ocean of its yellowfin tuna stocks. Miongo explained that warming waters forced tuna species to alter their migration patterns, making it harder for local fishers to catch them. Image by AP Photo/Brian Inganga.

New strategy to reverse Kenya’s shark decline tries to bring fishers on board

Anthony Langat 27 Mar 2026
Lubumbashi River, at the level of the Kalubwe bridge, where significant fish mortality was reported in November 2025. Image by Ruth Kutemba.

4 months after DRC mine spill, residents remain impacted

Ruth Kutemba, Elodie Toto 26 Mar 2026
Hooded vultures are small, scruffy-faced vultures native to sub-Saharan Africa.

‘Staggering’ trade for belief-based use drives hooded vultures to near-extinction in Benin

Spoorthy Raman 25 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026

Another legal challenge for TotalEnergies in South Africa  

Victoria Schneider 24 Mar 2026

Kenya marks World Meteorological Day amid dozens of flood fatalities

Lynet Otieno 24 Mar 2026
A ranger at Upemba National Park.

Upemba National Park staff recount assault that left seven dead

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2026
Lilac-breasted roller in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image courtesy of Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

How Namibia’s bird conservation projects build community resilience (commentary)

Martha Karas 23 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026
Chapalain during a workshop at the Nature, Environment, Wildlife, Filmmaking Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2025. Image courtesy of Samuel Gichuru.

Juliette Chapalain on building networks and nurturing talent to tell Africa’s environmental stories

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 19 Mar 2026

Investigation links DRC air pollution concerns to major copper-cobalt plant

Elodie Toto 19 Mar 2026

Rwanda advances nuclear ambitions after positive IAEA assessment

Elodie Toto 18 Mar 2026
An irrigation canal in the Gezira scheme in 2015. Image by Abby Waldorf via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

War exacerbates long-standing irrigation crisis for Sudan farmers

Albashir Dahab 17 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
Reproductive health and oncology nurse Faith Nelima outside the dispensary at Lokichar Girls Secondary School. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Kenya’s renewed oil push faces a tainted legacy

Christopher Clark 17 Mar 2026

Glyphosate found in South African baby cereal; watchdog group calls for ban

Elodie Toto 16 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026

South Africa endorses treaty to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2026
Lions. Image courtesy of Kasaine Sankan-Mara Predator Conservation Program.

Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Charles Mpaka 12 Mar 2026

At least 50 people killed and 125 others reported missing after landslides sweep Ethiopia

Associated Press 12 Mar 2026
Sea turtles, another migratory species, need safe ocean passageways to move between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.

Outlook for migratory species worsens amid habitat loss & avian flu, report finds

Gloria Dickie 12 Mar 2026

Rights violations prompt world’s largest sovereign wealth fund to divest from Bolloré

Victoria Schneider 11 Mar 2026
Two Twa women and children are resting under the shade of a cocoa tree next to the Ngite/Mavivi Twa camp in Beni, DRC. Image of Jackson Sivulyamwenge for Mongabay.

Growing number of Indigenous Twa forced out of DRC’s forests and into towns

Jérémie Kyaswekera, Jackson Muhindo Sivulyamwenge 11 Mar 2026

US development bank left without oversight after watchdog let go

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2026

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