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Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jan 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

What to expect for rainforests in 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2016

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2016

Bastion of biodiversity protected in eastern DRC

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2016

Why should we care about the endemism hotspot of São Tomé and Príncipe

Ricardo F. de Lima, Sara Saraiva 21 Dec 2016

Palm oil giant defends its deforestation in Gabon, points to country’s ‘right to develop’

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2016

Major Congo Basin forest conference convenes in Rwanda

John Cannon, Ric Francis 21 Nov 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 20 Nov 2016
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

Hunting stymies rainforest regrowth, says a new study

John Cannon 10 Nov 2016

Brazzaville-issued mining permits dip into Congo’s flagship park

John Cannon 31 Oct 2016

Efforts to stop deforestation in DRC may be misplaced, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Oct 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016

From paper to tablet: A new way to record animal behavior

Sanjiv Fernando 14 Oct 2016
Rangers at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. Photo by Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Poaching in Africa becomes increasingly militarized

William H. Funk 12 Sep 2016

World’s largest gorilla now Critically Endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2016

African elephant population declining at 8% per year

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2016

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

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

Two businessmen arrested for ivory trafficking

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2016

New, undescribed species of Scops owl documented on Príncipe island

Mike Gaworecki 5 Aug 2016

A dangerous, illegal necessity: charcoal reform comes to Virunga

Sophie Mbugua 2 Aug 2016

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

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

DRC declares first new national park in 40 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Jul 2016

UK takes action against companies importing timber from Cameroon tied to illegal logging

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jul 2016

Reserve with rare gorillas finally protected

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jun 2016

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