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Shocking discovery in Gabon: a new electric fish

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Does sustainable forest management actually protect forests?

John Cannon 27 Jan 2016

Measuring the Heartbeat of the Delta

Katie Taylor 13 Jan 2016

Scientists sound alarm over hydropower’s impacts on tropical fish biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2016

60 new species of dragonflies discovered in Africa

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Big increase in little farms is whittling away Angola’s woodlands

Apoorva Joshi 17 Dec 2015

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

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

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015

‘Measured in human lives’: report finds EU and logging companies complicit in funding war

John Cannon 15 Sep 2015

Feline Unseen: The African Golden Cat

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2015

Cleaning up cacao: making the chocolate business more sustainable

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2015

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2015

‘Chaos’ in Congo’s logging sector

John Cannon 8 Jul 2015

Using DNA evidence to pinpoint poaching zones

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Jun 2015

Coordinated protests hit Socfin plantations in four countries

Greg Norman 5 Jun 2015

World’s critical habitats lost Connecticut-size area of forest in a decade

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2015

Ranger killed by poachers in park known for grisly elephant slaughters

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2015

Rainforest communities can now report illegal logging with their mobile phones

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2015

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate

Jeremy Hance 14 Apr 2015

New group hopes to raise global profile of the peace-loving bonobo

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2015

Condition of tropical forests ‘worsening’, could become ‘critical’

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

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