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Hundreds of NGOs sign open letter calling to halt “illegal activities” in DRC’s protected areas

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Oct 2021

NGOs say FSC label offers little protection for forests, Indigenous people

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2021

On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Orji Sunday 25 Oct 2021

Who benefits from resource extraction in the DRC?

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2021

Mixed signals from Gabon officials to villagers fighting to save a forest

Benjamin Evine-Binet 11 Oct 2021

High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary

David Kalinga Safari 8 Oct 2021

Gorilla baby boom sparks hope in DRC, but threats to great apes persist

Claude Sengenya 6 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021
Fallen giant: a member of the survey team inspects the remains of a felled African zebrawood in Ebo Forest  Image courtesy Eric Nana.

Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction

Ryan Truscott 4 Oct 2021

For Adams Cassinga, fighting wildlife trafficking in DRC is a life mission

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Sep 2021

Congo’s bongos are in danger, and curbs on trophy hunting could save them

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Sep 2021

For World Gorilla Day 2021, a conservation success story

Tara Stoinski 23 Sep 2021
Chimpanzee

Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2021

Africa’s montane forests are more carbon-dense than even the Amazon

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021
Pirogues on the Kasai River with forests on the far bank. Image by Terese Hart via Flickr.

Toxic spill at Angola diamond mine pollutes Congo River tributary in DRC

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 1 Sep 2021

L.A.-sized tract of primary forest went up in flames in DRC province in 2020

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Aug 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Aug 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

Eight of the 10 nations most at risk from climate and toxic pollution in Africa: study

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2021

Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2021

Warming climate means scientists may have overcounted bonobos, study says

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire

Ini Ekott 29 Jun 2021

New survey nearly doubles Grauer’s gorilla population, but threats remain

Ed Holt 22 Jun 2021

Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jun 2021

Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2021

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