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How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

Rebuilding Kissama: war-torn Angola’s only national park affected by deforestation, but refaunation gives hope

Fidelis Zvomuya 24 Jul 2014

Setting the stage: theater troupe revives tradition to promote conservation in DRC

Anna Ikarashi 22 Jul 2014

Is there hope for bonobos? Researchers, NGOs, gov’t officials, local communities band together to save iconic ape (Part III)

Fidelis Zvomuya 18 Jul 2014

Poaching, fires, farming pervade: protecting bonobos ‘an enormous challenge’ (Part II)

Fidelis Zvomuya 17 Jul 2014

Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorillas hang on by a thread

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jul 2014

Will the last ape found be the first to go? Bonobos’ biggest refuge under threat (Part I)

Fidelis Zvomuya 16 Jul 2014

DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

John Cannon 10 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

On a whim: Equatorial Guinea building new capital city in the middle of the rainforest

Fidelis Zvomuya 2 Jul 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

John Cannon 25 Jun 2014

Discarded cell phones to help fight rainforest poachers, loggers in real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jun 2014

What does SOCO’s withdrawal really mean for the future of Virunga National Park?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 17 Jun 2014

Grenades, helicopters, and scooping out brains: poachers decimate elephant population in park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jun 2014

Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park after sustained campaign by WWF

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Zebras for the win! Africa’s longest land migration discovered

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 May 2014

Greenpeace accuses controversial palm oil company and Cameroon government of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

DRC seeks $1B to save its rainforest

Mongabay.com 22 May 2014

Hope in the Heart of Darkness: huge population of chimpanzees discovered in the DRC

Julian Moll-rocek 20 May 2014

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Paul Sutherland 19 May 2014

Almost 90 percent of Republic of the Congo’s lowland forests open to logging

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2014

Congo rainforest losing its greenness, finds NASA

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Apr 2014

NASA detects surge in deforestation in Malaysia, Bolivia during first quarter of 2014

Mongabay.com 21 Apr 2014

Okapi-killing warlord shot dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2014

Emissions from rainforest logging average 16% of those from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Apr 2014

Nearly 90 percent of logging in the DRC is illegal

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

Europe not doing enough to stop illegal logging imports says Greenpeace

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2014

Ivory trade’s shocking toll: 65% of world’s forest elephants killed in 12 years (warning: graphic image)

Jeremy Hance 12 Feb 2014

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