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A woman dressed in bright blue and a smile crouches in a cabbage field holding up a large head of cabbage. Image courtesy Suhucam.

In Cameroon, forest and water source restoration offers sustainable solutions

Yannick Kenné 16 Sep 2024
Women's cooperative farm in Dogba. Image by Leocadia Bongben for Mongabay.

How the Zai farming technique is transforming soil fertility in North Cameroon

Leocadia Bongben 11 Sep 2024
Photograph of the Itombwe owl captured by Tom Butynski and colleagues in 1996. Image Courtesy of Tom Butynski.

The Itombwe owl: Two birds and an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Sep 2024

Logging has a ‘lasting legacy’ on Gabonese forest soundscapes

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2024
The African manatee use their whisker-like hairs (vibrissae) to detect objects and help expertly navigate waterways (Credit: Lucy Keith-Diagne).

Mysterious African manatees inspire a growing chorus of champions

Petro Kotzé 5 Sep 2024
Thatching grass collected in the miombo woodlands. Thatching grass is used to roof homes, woven into fences and for other purposes, and is one of the numerous non-timber forest products derived from the woodlands. Image courtesy of Edwin Tambara, AWF.

Meet the Miombo, the largest forest you’ve never heard of

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Sep 2024

UK aid agency investing $35m in controversial DRC port

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Aug 2024
Women farmers in Chad face challenges from climate change and land conflicts. Image by Robert Bociaga.

Resilient women farmers in Chad battle climate challenges and social barriers

Robert Bociaga 29 Aug 2024
Front view of a confiscated forest hingeback tortoise in Côte d’Ivoire with damage to the nuchal area. Image by Pearson McGovern.

Meet the little-known African tortoise with a hatchback for a shell

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2024
In community fisheries reserves, fish scouts or guards patrol the rivers to remove illegal nets and enforce local rules. Fish monitors record catches that are taken legally to track the state of their local fish stocks. Photo courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)

Gail Thomson 22 Aug 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024
Makonga (in blue), who died in June this year, walking among the rubble of his former home.

In the DRC, a government commission is taking funds owed to people relocated by mines

Didier Makal 20 Aug 2024
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate change threatens public health, raising the spread of food-borne diseases

Leocadia Bongben 15 Aug 2024
Image de banniere : Travailleurs de PHC avec des gallons de pesticides dans la plantation de Yaligimba. Image © Luciana Téllez/Human Rights Watch

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Yannick Kenné 12 Aug 2024
Coffee bean harvesting in Yangambi DRC. Image courtesy of Axel Fassio/CIFOR_ICRAF

Study highlights environmental and economic benefits of agroforestry for DRC coffee crops

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2024
Aerial view of the Manono concession area. Image by AVZ (Fair Use).

Disputed Manono lithium mining project in DRC sparks concern

Didier Makal 8 Aug 2024

Investigation uncovers damages of cobalt mining in the DRC villages

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2024
Batwa women in Uganda.

Indigenous Batwa win human rights victory over eviction from DRC park

Bobby Bascomb 2 Aug 2024
An Mbororo herder in a green caftan and his cattle in Cameroon, Image courtesy of Village Aid.

Herders caught between conflict and climate change in the northern Congo Basin

Didier Makal 2 Aug 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, ‘forgotten’ foods could boost climate resilience, nutrition

Claudia Geib, Elodie Toto 26 Jul 2024

DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2024

DRC conflict hinders search for Itombwe nightjar, but ‘lost’ bird may yet be found

Ryan Truscott 25 Jul 2024

Activists in Cameroon repeatedly questioned by authorities following Mongabay story

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2024

To end turtle hunting, an African island state embraced the hunters

Anna Dulisse 17 Jul 2024
Camera trap training in the DRC.

Regions with highest risks to wildlife have fewest camera traps, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2024

Africa’s great ape sanctuaries are feeling the heat from climate change

Tina Deines 5 Jul 2024

Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining of transition metals

Anna Dulisse 28 Jun 2024

Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Jun 2024

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Victoria Schneider 27 Jun 2024

In ‘the century of Africa,’ Mongabay’s new bureau reports its biggest environmental issues and solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Jun 2024

Study: Female chimps that don’t leave their birth groups can still avoid inbreeding

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 2024

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