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Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023
Aerial view of Congo forest at Lokolama/Penzele around Mbandaka, Équateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image courtesy of Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace.

Tap African knowledge and culture for Congo Basin forest conservation (commentary)

Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue 5 Jun 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon, Didier Makal 30 May 2023
DRC copper Mine April 2017https://www.flickr.com/photos/fairphone/35456682034/in/photostream/

NGOs urge continued sanctions against DRC mining giant Dan Gertler

Elodie Toto 23 May 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023

Congo Basin communities left out by ‘fortress conservation’ fight for a way back in

Mike DiGirolamo 16 May 2023
Brightly-coloured seals and white stenciled writing on the ends of logs at Gabon's Nkok SEZ. Image courtesy GSEZ.

Corruption threatens timber traceability in Nkok, Gabon

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

Inaugural Indigenous women’s forum spotlights Congo Basin conservation

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023
Activist Emmanuel Elong at the foot of an ancestral tomb on the sacred site of Bayong Mbonjo. Photo by Yannick Kenné.

Palm oil giant hands over sacred community land for reforestation project

Yannick Kenné 4 May 2023

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023
A girl carries sustainably foraged fruits back to her village. Image courtesy of John Novis / Greenpeace.

Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Apr 2023

Camera trap images of rare gorillas with infants bring hope in DRC

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2023
Artisanal timber producers in Cameroon. Image by Mokhamad Eldiadi/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.o)

Forests & finance: Protection and restoration in Cameroon and Senegal, fire threat in Angola

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 2023
Promotional image of the project. Courtesy of Nathalie Lum, Chair of CABEF 2023 CAPS

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

Elodie Toto 11 Apr 2023
House on stilts built illegally in the Lowé mangrove in Libreville, Gabon. Proto taken on March 3, 2023 by Elodie Toto

Libreville’s shrinking mangroves leave Gabon’s capital prone to floods

Elodie Toto 6 Apr 2023
A cobalt mine in central Africa.

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Jaqueline Sordi 23 Mar 2023
A female bonobo.

DRC’s endangered bonobos face another threat to their survival: malaria

Ryan Truscott 22 Mar 2023

Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2023
Children relaxing in the clear water of a shallow river in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Image by Pieter Henket (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Deforestation threatens local populations in Republic of Congo’s Sangha

Lawon Olalekan 6 Mar 2023
Sections of the Amazon Rainforest are set on fire by farmers to be cleared for agriculture.

Do elections spur deforestation? It’s complicated, new study finds

Liz Kimbrough 3 Mar 2023
A golden blue-legged baboon spider.

Study: Online trade in arachnids threatens some species with extinction

Ryan Truscott 1 Mar 2023
A mining pit transformed into an artificial lake after a mining company’s semi-mechanized operations. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned mining sites

Yannick Kenné 24 Feb 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
The dilapidated home of Ambroise Ondoa, local leader from Nkol-Bifouan, damaged by vibrations from the Febe village quarry. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals

Yannick Kenné 24 Jan 2023
Tanzanian police officer in dull green riot gear and helmet, pictured against the sky guarding waste dump site at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine. Image courtesy Catherine Coumans / Mining Watch.

Element Africa: Deadly violence and massive graft at Tanzania and DRC mines

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s most impactful investigations of 2022

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2022
Rainbow over oil palm plantations and forest in Jambi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

What happened in the world’s rainforests in 2022?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2022

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