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Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021
Emanuel Balisa Akangi, hunting in the forest, Yangambi, DRC.near Yangambi, Tshopo Province, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

DRC environment minister panned for allegedly facilitating illegal concessions

Mongabay 19 Nov 2021
China-funded road-construction project in the Congo Basin. Credit: William Laurance.

Infrastructure projects in Congo Basin need greater oversight, report says

Jim Tan 4 Nov 2021

Mixed signals from Gabon officials to villagers fighting to save a forest

Benjamin Evine-Binet 11 Oct 2021

High risk, low pay for DRC rangers entrusted to guard a gorilla sanctuary

David Kalinga Safari 8 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021
Fallen giant: a member of the survey team inspects the remains of a felled African zebrawood in Ebo Forest  Image courtesy Eric Nana.

Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction

Ryan Truscott 4 Oct 2021

For Adams Cassinga, fighting wildlife trafficking in DRC is a life mission

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Sep 2021

Congo’s bongos are in danger, and curbs on trophy hunting could save them

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Sep 2021

For World Gorilla Day 2021, a conservation success story

Tara Stoinski 23 Sep 2021
Chimpanzee

Scientists look to chimps’ past to gauge their future under climate change

Carolyn Cowan 17 Sep 2021

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2021
Pirogues on the Kasai River with forests on the far bank. Image by Terese Hart via Flickr.

Toxic spill at Angola diamond mine pollutes Congo River tributary in DRC

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 1 Sep 2021

‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

Warming climate means scientists may have overcounted bonobos, study says

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jun 2021

Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2021

In Gabon, a new partnership protects sharks and rays

Gaspard Abitsi, Godefroy De Bruyne, Luke Warwick 8 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021
Poached elephant in Garamba National Park, DRC. Image by Nuria Ortega/African Parks via Flickr

Tale of two traffickers is a rare spell of Congolese conservation convictions

Soraya Kishtwari 28 May 2021

Female putty-nosed monkeys get their males to run defense against predators

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2021
Men sitting under roofed shelter in the Gabonese village of Massaha. Image courtesy Graden Froese.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it

Benjamin Evine-Binet 31 Mar 2021

Unrelated adoptions by bonobos may point to altruistic traits, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2020

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