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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

Total says it will not drill in any World Heritage Sites

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2014

Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2014

U.S. palm oil company fined $4.6m in discrimination suit

Mongabay.com 8 Jan 2014

Scientists uncover new crocodile in Africa

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2014

Rainforest news review for 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2013

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Bonobos: the Congo Basin’s great gardeners

Christina Pham 11 Dec 2013

Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2013

28 percent of potential bonobo habitat remains suitable

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Controversial palm oil project approved in Cameroon rainforest

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2013

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

Satellites reveal browning mountain forests

Sandhya Sekar 22 Nov 2013

Remote sensor captures sound of ivory poacher shooting an elephant

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2013

Orphaned gorillas successfully reintroduced where apes had been hunted to extinction

Mongabay.com 21 Oct 2013

Honey badgers and more: camera traps reveal wealth of small carnivores in Gabon (photos)

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2013

African manatee hanging on in Cameroon

Adam Andrus 30 Sep 2013

Controversial oil palm company now accused of illegal logging in Cameroon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

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