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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
South Kalimantan's Walhi measures the trees on Mount Hauk, the sacred territory of the Dayak Pitap.

‘Non-market’ solutions to deforestation need more support, advocates say

Ashoka Mukpo 31 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024

All conservation is local: Interview with Angolan conservationist Kerllen Costa

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

Tracing Africa’s ‘fading biological fingerprints’ in Angola’s threatened forests

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2024

Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition

Didier Makal 14 May 2024

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 26 Apr 2024
Bonobos in the DRC’s Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Image courtesy of Maud Mouginot.

Bonobos, the ‘hippy apes’, may not be as peaceful as once thought

Ryan Truscott 12 Apr 2024
Elephant and calf in Moremi National Park, Botswana. Image by serenea_tang via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends

Jim Tan 9 Apr 2024
A hawksbill turtle

As a megaport rises in Cameroon, a delicate coastal ecosystem ebbs

Elodie Toto 5 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024

Global cobalt rush drives toxic toll near DRC mines

Alex Shaw 27 Mar 2024
Relief effort during the Ene River floods, March 2024.

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2024
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (commentary)

Dodé H.M. Houehounha, Ichu G. Ichu, Paul Telfer, Felin Twagirashyaka, Jennica Betsch, Jean Hugé, Baudouin Michel, Cédric Vermeulen 26 Mar 2024
A camp in Banamwesi forest for the community monitoring team. Image courtesy of a local source.

Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company acts with impunity

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 25 Mar 2024
Véronique Sekuka, a Baka woman who was evicted from what is now Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

African Parks vows to investigate allegations of abuse at Congolese park

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Feb 2024
Image by Dinesh Valke via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Freeing trees of their liana load can boost carbon sequestration in tropical forests

Mark Hillsdon 1 Feb 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Direct funding of Indigenous peoples can protect global rainforests & the climate (commentary)

Joe Eisen, Suzanne Pelletier, Tørris Jæger 24 Jan 2024
A close shot of a black mangabey monkey (Lophocebus.aterrimus) in 3/4 profile, showing off its grey whiskers and funky mohawk crest. Image by Nathan Rupert via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Togo monkey seizure turns spotlight on illicit wildlife trafficking from DR Congo

Didier Makal 8 Jan 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor, Robin Naidoo, Lisa Steel, Michael Knight, Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024

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