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Screenshot from a propaganda video released by JNIM depicting a training camp in Burkina Faso, 2024.

Trained to stop poaching, Benin park rangers instead face jihadists

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2024
A white-headed vulture, soaring wings outstretched against a clear blue sky. (Trigonoceps occipitalis) at Mole National Park, Ghana. Image by Nik Borrow via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Action plan to save West African vultures targets threat from belief-based use

Sean Mowbray 18 Jun 2024
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023
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

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

Prized as pets, are ball pythons being traded out of wild existence?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 May 2020

Half a ton of pangolin scales seized on the way to Asia from Benin

John Cannon 19 Apr 2018

$23.5 million funding pledge aims to protect critical West African national park

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century

Mike Gaworecki 31 Jul 2017

Conservation group African Parks to look after West African wildlife

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2017
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015

Picture of the day: African costume you can’t miss

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2011

Photos: the top ten new species discovered in 2010

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2011

Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2009

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