Gone: a look at extinction over the past decade
A survey of twelve species lost to extinction over the past ten years. No one can say with any certainty how many species went extinct from 2000-2009. Because no one…
World’s rarest gorilla caught on film
The first ever professional footage of the world's rarest gorilla, the Cross River gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla diehli), has been shot deep in the forested mountains of Cameroon. The only…
Commercial fish smoking is the “most pervasive” threat to mangrove forests in West Africa
An improved system for commercial fish smoking could reduce destruction of mangrove forests and generate human health benefits, report researchers writing in Tropical Conservation Science, an open-access journal published by…
Did malaria come from chimps?
Malaria may have jumped from chimpanzees to humans much like AIDS and the Ebola virus did, report researchers writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Analyzing blood samples…
A New Idea to Save Tropical Forests Takes Flight
This is the first in a series of tropical forest policy commentaries John-O Niles will be writing for Mongabay.com leading up to the December U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen. John-O…
Cameroon rainforest given 30 days to be conserved or sold off for logging
An 830,000-hectare tract of rainforest in Cameroon has been granted a 30-day reprieve from logging following a 4-week exploratory expedition that turned up large populations of lowland gorillas, forest elephants,…
Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land
Less than 2 percent of Africa’s tropical forests are under community control, hindering efforts to slow deforestation and alleviate rural poverty, reports a new assessment from the International Tropical Timber…
Cameroon may liquidate rainforest reserve if conservationists don’t step forward
Cameroon gets gorilla park
Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla
Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla mongabay.com November 26, 2008
New rainforest sanctuary in Cameroon already at risk from plantations, hunting
New rainforest sanctuary in Cameroon already at risk from plantations, hunting New rainforest sanctuary in Cameroon already at risk from plantations, hunting mongabay.com September 15, 2008 The forests of southern…
Mangrove destruction for fish trade may undermine fishermen in West Africa
Mangrove destruction for fish trade may undermine fishermen in West Africa Mangrove destruction for fish trade may undermine fishermen in West Africa mongabay.com September 15, 2008 The harvesting of mangrove…
Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world’s rarest gorilla
Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla mongabay.com September 5, 2008 Cameroon and Nigeria have agreed to protect the the Cross…
Ghana becomes first country to sign sustainable timber pact with the E.U.
Sea level rise likely limited to 2-6 feet by 2100 Forecast sea level rise may be overestimated by some models mongabay.com September 4, 2008 The European Union has signed a…
China’s log imports fall 19% in first half of 2008 due to high prices
China's log imports fall 19% in first half of 2008 due to high prices China's log imports fall 19% in first half of 2008 due to high prices mongabay.com August…
Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell
Markets may save rainforests An interview with Dr. Andrew Mitchell of the Global Canopy Program: Markets could save rainforests Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com August 18, 2008 Markets may soon value…
Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation
Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation mongabay.com June 24, 2008 The governments of Britain and Norway last week…
World’s rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve
World's rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve World's rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve mongabay.com April 18, 2008 The government of Cameroon has established the first sanctuary exclusively…
Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming
Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming The biochar revolution begins Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming mongabay.com March 10, 2008…
Carbon traders, not conservationists, could save Cameroon rainforest
Carbon traders, not conservationists, could save Cameroon rainforest Carbon traders, not conservationists, could save Cameroon rainforest Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com February 15, 2008 The government of Cameroon is looking to…
Rare gorillas use weapons to attack forest-intruding humans
Rare gorillas use weapons to attack forest-intruding humans Rare gorillas use weapons to attack forest-intruding humans mongabay.com December 5, 2007 Following the first documented cases of the Cross River gorillas…
Time running out for world’s rarest gorilla
Time running out for world's rarest gorilla Time running out for world's rarest gorilla mongabay.com June 21, 2007 Time is running out for the world's rarest subspecies of gorilla, the…
Chinese demand drives global deforestation
Chinese demand drives global deforestation Chinese demand drives global deforestation By Tansa Musa Reuters June 10, 2007 NGAMBE-TIKAR, Cameroon (Reuters) - From outside, Cameroon's Ngambe-Tikar forest looks like a compact,…
Logging roads rapidly expanding in Congo rainforest
Logging roads rapidly expanding in Congo rainforest Logging roads rapidly expanding in Congo rainforest mongabay.com June 7, 2007 Logging roads are rapidly expanding in the Congo rainforest, report researchers who…
Congo forest elephants declining from logging roads, illegal ivory
Congo forest elephants declining due to logging roads, illegal ivory trade Congo forest elephants declining from logging roads, illegal ivory Rhettt A. Butler, mongabay.com April 1, 2007 Fast-expanding logging roads…
Important Congo basin parks get funding
Important Congo basin parks get funding Important Congo basin parks get funding Wildlife Conservation Society March 28, 2007 A network of national parks and protected areas spanning three nations in…
Cameroon could make millions of dollars under emissions deal
Cameroon could make millions of dollars under emissions deal Cameroon could make millions of dollars under emissions deal mongabay.com November 6, 2006 Cameroon could net tens of millions of dollars…
West African black rhino may be extinct
West African black rhino may be extinct West African black rhino may be extinct mongabay.com July 17, 2006 Recent surveys conducted by IUCN in northern Cameroon found no evidence of…
Debt-for-Nature Swap Protects Forest in Cameroon
Debt-for-Nature Swap Protects Forest in Cameroon Debt-for-Nature Swap Protects Forest in Cameroon World Wildlife Fund June 22, 2006 Further conservation needed to protect forests from destruction France and Cameroon signed…
Goodbye to West Africa’s Rainforests
Goodbye to West Africa's Rainforests Goodbye to West Africa's Rainforests Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com January 22, 2006 The state of West Africa's rainforests West Africa's once verdant and extensive rainforests…
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking
- Indigenous community in Peru losing forests to timber, drug, land trafficking
- Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires
- The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads
Oceans
- ‘It was a shark operation’: Q&A with Indonesian crew abused on Chinese shark-finning boat
- Fishers in Flores Sea opt to limit harvest of overexploited sea cucumbers
- As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear
- Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas
Amazon Conservation
- To be effective, zero-deforestation pledges need a critical mass, study shows
- Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland
- U.N. report calls for the ban of mercury trade and its use in gold mining
- Following the impacts of palm oil alliance: Violated regulations and penalty proceedings
Land rights and extractives
- To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry
- Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland
- About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon
- ‘We go in and take Indigenous lands back from cattle ranchers’: Q&A with activist Pablo Sibar
Endangered Environmentalists
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders
- Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial
- In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’
Conservation Effectiveness
- Mangrove forest loss is slowing toward a halt, new report shows
- ‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal
- Nepal was supposed to double its tiger population since 2010. It tripled it
- In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life
- Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
- Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t
- Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’
