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Yellowfin tuna, one of the seven major commercial tuna species, attempt to outswim a seine net in the Seychelles. Fishing is the second largest industry on this small Pacific Island, and like many other Pacific Islands, it faces major revenue losses as tuna shift their migration patterns into the high seas due to climate change.

How will fisheries change in a hotter world? Experts share

Claudia Geib 13 Aug 2025
Scimitar-horned oryx in Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve in Chad. Image by Inyathi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

US NGO signs deal to manage huge nature reserve in Chad

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Jul 2025
Riding through a locust swarm in Lekiji, Samburu County, Kenya.

Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa

Stephanie Achieng’ 3 Jul 2025
A flooded field in Lake Province, Chad, in October 2024. The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) is working with farmers groups as part of their three year "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" project. Image courtesy of Marie Renaux/LWF

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025

Darfur’s women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland

Robert Bociaga 10 Feb 2025
Banner image of African heads of states and partners at the Mission 300 energy summit courtesy of the African Development Bank Group.

African nations commit to electricity for 300 million people by 2030

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jan 2025

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024

Heavy rains in Lake Chad Basin leave hundreds dead across countries

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 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
Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné | Sabré Na-Ideyam | Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023
Pipeline construction in progress in Uganda.

Element Africa: A ‘disaster’ pipeline, an oil-field spill, and a mining pit tragedy

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2023
A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023
Promotional image of the project. Courtesy of Nathalie Lum, Chair of CABEF 2023 CAPS

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

Elodie Toto 11 Apr 2023

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

Four of six black rhinos translocated to Chad are now dead

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2018

Two black rhinos found dead in Chad after move from South Africa

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Black rhinos return to Zakouma National Park in Chad

Mongabay.com 7 May 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018

Scimitar-horned oryx return to the Sahara nearly two decades after going extinct in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2017

African elephant population declining at 8% per year

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2016

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 24 May 2016

Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Oct 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2013

Authorities nab ringleader of poachers who killed 89 elephants in Chad

Jeremy Hance 27 Jun 2013

A thousand soldiers sent after marauding elephant poachers [warning: graphic photos]

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Poachers slaughter 89 elephants in Chad, including over 30 pregnant mothers [warning: graphic photos]

Christina M. Russo 19 Mar 2013

Elephant slaughter continues in Chad, another baby rescued

Laurel Neme 7 Aug 2012

President of Chad sends troops after elephant poachers

Laurel Neme 3 Aug 2012

10 African countries to develop satellite-based deforestation tracking systems with help of Brazil

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2012

Dozens of elephants massacred in Chad

Laurel Neme 26 Jul 2012

Alarm rising over food crisis in Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2012

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