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Documenting Africa’s poaching epidemic: Q&A with the director of ‘The Last Animals’

Isabel Esterman 22 Sep 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What works in conservation? In-depth series starts next week

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Sep 2017
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Pygmy death shows need for land reform, group says

Genevieve Belmaker 15 Sep 2017

Central Africa’s ivory trade shifts underground, according to new report

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2017

Is the forestry project of the French Development Agency threatening the peatlands of the DRC? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 28 Jul 2017

Is Norwegian money funding Congo deforestation?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jul 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

African great ape bushmeat crisis intensifies; few solutions in sight

Sharon Guynup 7 Jul 2017

30 years of protecting the mysterious Okapi

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2017

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Claire Salisbury 12 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

New carbon map will help protect the DRC’s rainforests

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jun 2017

Not out of the woods: Concerns remain with Nigerian superhighway

John Cannon 26 May 2017

Rugged innovation: Meeting the challenges of bringing high tech DNA analysis to the field

Lalini Pedris 25 May 2017
Giraffes roam in Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 9 May 2017

Going viral: How advancements in Ebola disease detection in wild apes can help to prevent dangerous outbreaks

Lalini Pedris 4 May 2017

Conservation lessons from the bonobos

Kim Harrisberg 1 May 2017

Saving Congo’s sea turtles: progress made but dangers ahead

William Clowes 1 May 2017
The coast of DRC. Photo by William Clowes for Mongabay.

Conserving Congo’s wild places on a shoestring

William Clowes 25 Apr 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Meet the winners of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Women could be a key to great ape conservation in the Congo

Tina Deines 21 Apr 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 20 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

Ebo forest great apes threatened by stalled Cameroon national park

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2017

New species of wild ginger discovered in DR Congo

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2017
Ewing Lopongo, conservationist with the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), in charge of the Monkoto sector of the Salonga National Park, in Monkoto, Tshuapa, DRC, October 2016. Photo by Leonora Baumann for Mongabay.

The people of DRC’s forests

Etienne Maury 21 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

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