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DRC seeks $1B to save its rainforest

Mongabay.com 22 May 2014

Almost 90 percent of Republic of the Congo’s lowland forests open to logging

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2014

Congo rainforest losing its greenness, finds NASA

Rhett A. Butler 25 Apr 2014

Nearly 90 percent of logging in the DRC is illegal

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

Ivory trade’s shocking toll: 65% of world’s forest elephants killed in 12 years (warning: graphic image)

Jeremy Hance 12 Feb 2014

U.S. palm oil company fined $4.6m in discrimination suit

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2014

Scientists uncover new crocodile in Africa

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2014

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

28 percent of potential bonobo habitat remains suitable

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Controversial palm oil project approved in Cameroon rainforest

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2013

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

Satellites reveal browning mountain forests

Sandhya Sekar 22 Nov 2013

Orphaned gorillas successfully reintroduced where apes had been hunted to extinction

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2013

Honey badgers and more: camera traps reveal wealth of small carnivores in Gabon (photos)

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2013

A year after devastating attack, security returns to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2013

Endangered chimps and forest elephants found in rainforest to be logged for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2013

Elephant killer gets five years in prison in the Republic of Congo

Jeremy Hance 1 Aug 2013

Meet Thor’s shrew: scientists discover new mammal with a superior spine

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2013

NGO hits out at study for downplaying logging threat in Congo rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 23 Jul 2013

Hunting, logging could threaten long-term health of Congo forests by wiping out key animals

Rhett A. Butler 23 Jul 2013

Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett A. Butler 22 Jul 2013

Authorities nab ringleader of poachers who killed 89 elephants in Chad

Jeremy Hance 27 Jun 2013

Malaysian palm oil firm to establish $744m, 180,000 ha plantation in Congo

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2013

Controversial palm oil project in Cameroon rainforest to resume

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2013

African militias trading elephant ivory for weapons

Kara Moses 5 Jun 2013

Forest certification body revokes Swiss logging company’s certificate over alleged Congo abuses

Mongabay.com 21 May 2013

Gabon steps in to help protect elephants from ivory poaching at Central African Republic site

Mongabay.com 18 May 2013

Gabon convicts environmentalist of defamation in palm oil case

Mongabay.com 15 May 2013

Why responsible tourism is the key to saving the mountain gorilla

Anne-marie Weeden With Journeys Discovering Africa 13 May 2013

Elephants massacred for ivory in Central African Republic

Mongabay.com 10 May 2013

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