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Study finds there are ways to mitigate deforestation risks of palm oil expansion in Africa

Mike Gaworecki 20 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

New species of wild ginger discovered in DR Congo

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

World’s largest tropical peatlands discovered in swamp forests of Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2017

Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2017

New population of rare Dryas monkey videotaped for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Feb 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

NASA scientists find connection between fires and droughts in sub-Saharan Africa

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jan 2017
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Seven African countries pledge to protect their tropical forests from unsustainable oil palm development

Mike Gaworecki 16 Nov 2016

Cables reveal US gov’t role in Herakles Farms land grab in Cameroon

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

Forest conservation can offset emissions from palm oil expansion in Africa: Study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Gabon moves to share forestry profits with local forest communities

Mike Gaworecki 18 May 2016

5 wildlife rangers shot – 3 killed – by poachers in Congo park

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2016

Disease prevention a boost to human health and great ape conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Apr 2016

An agribusiness revolution is needed to save Africa’s last great apes

William H. Funk 12 Apr 2016

DRC announces intent to reopen its rainforests to logging companies

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Mar 2016

Soil carbon could be key to protecting global biodiversity and climate at same time

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2016

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2016

Survival International files formal complaint against WWF for allegedly violating human rights of Baka ‘Pygmies’

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Feb 2016

Shocking discovery in Gabon: a new electric fish

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016

60 new species of dragonflies discovered in Africa

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2016

Superhighway construction surges forward in Nigeria

John Cannon 17 Nov 2015

Cameroon convicts activist campaigning against palm oil company

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2015

Key forest countries’ climate pledges fall short on emissions from land use and deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2015

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2015

Rainforest communities can now report illegal logging with their mobile phones

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2015

Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2015

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