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Rainforest in Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

2024 outlook for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2024
At a mining site in Uis, Namibia.

Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Dec 2023

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023
Man in the forest near village of Ngon, Ebolowa District, Cameroon. Ollivier Girard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Incentivizing conservation shows success against wildlife hunting in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2023
A blue monkey in Virunga National Park, DRC.

COP28 cements goal to halt forest loss in 7 years, but where’s the money?

Alec Luhn 15 Dec 2023

In DRC, Virunga deforestation escalates as fighting sends refugees into park

Elodie Toto 29 Nov 2023
An African wedgefish (Rhynchobatus luebberti) landed by artisanal fishermen and sold in Songolo (Critically Endangered, IUCN Red List). Credit: Godefroy De Bruyne

Congo’s waters are hotspot for endangered sharks & rays, reveals data from artisanal fishers

Molly Herring 28 Nov 2023
Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke

‘We won’t give up’: DRC’s Front Line Defenders award winner Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke

Elodie Toto 17 Nov 2023
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023
Red colobus monkey in Uganda. Image by Julie Kearney Wasserman via U.S. National Science Foundation.

Are flame retardants about to burn a hole in biodiversity? (commentary)

Marta Venier, Michael Wasserman 13 Nov 2023
A cheetah in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

Mongabay launches Africa news bureau

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2023

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023
Villagers of Muanda.

Oil firm Perenco eyes new blocks in DRC amid criticism of its track record

Elodie Toto 24 Oct 2023
Adélard Makonga at the Gécamines mining site.

Mine in ‘world cobalt capital’ displaces locals and monks under questionable circumstances

Didier Makal, Eric Cibamba 23 Oct 2023

‘It’s a real mess’: Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled DRC wildlife haven

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Oct 2023
Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné, Sabré Na-Ideyam, Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023
Dorothee Mbogo, carrying a machete and wearing a sleeveless white top and dark blue jeans, standing in the disturbed earth of her cassava farm in Batchenga, Cameroon. Image by Ryan Brown/UNWomen via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Agroecology holds promise in Congo Basin — if funding woes can be overcome

Elodie Toto 21 Sep 2023
A deer catptured for bushmeat in the DRC.

Study: Wild meat trade from Africa into Belgium a health and conservation risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Sep 2023
Member of the Akilimali women association in her farming plot in Yanonge, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

DRC food sovereignty summit yields support for agroecology, local land rights

Elodie Toto 7 Sep 2023
Rainforest in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

What would it cost to protect the Congo Rainforest?

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Aug 2023
Maize near Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature in Congo Basin

Elodie Toto 28 Aug 2023

Do virus-detecting ants hold the key to preventing zoonotic diseases?

Elodie Toto 23 Aug 2023

Elephants invade as habitat loss soars in Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 21 Aug 2023
An orange-furred bat (Hipposideros fuliginosus) with dark grey wings being held up in the light against a dark background. Image courtesy of Diogo Ferreira.

Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2023

Kordofan giraffes face local extinction in 15 years if poaching continues

Liz Kimbrough 16 Aug 2023
A group of elephants standing in mud and shallow water, pausing from digging for salt-rich mud in the Dzanga baï in the Sangha Rainforest in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy Jan Teede.

Congo Basin’s elephants boost carbon capture, but need salt-licks to survive

Leonie Joubert 15 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Cameroon government again opens way for logging in Ebo Forest

Leocadia Bongben 1 Aug 2023
A woman in a yellow top and bright multicoloured wrapper, smiling as she walks across sandy verge of a paved road to where blue and white bags of dark black charcoal have been set on the ground near Praça das Mangueiras, in southwestern Angola. In the background, more charcoal in tall white sacks. Image by Carsten Ten Brink via Flickr (BY NC-ND 2.0)

Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2023
Evans, a ranger for the REDD+ project Wildlife Works in Kenya's Kasigau Corridor.

Forest campaign group renews charge that carbon credit verification schemes are flawed

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2023

A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023

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