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Forest certification body revokes Swiss logging company’s certificate over alleged Congo abuses

Mongabay.com 21 May 2013

Gabon steps in to help protect elephants from ivory poaching at Central African Republic site

Mongabay.com 18 May 2013

Elephants massacred for ivory in Central African Republic

Mongabay.com 10 May 2013

17 poachers allegedly enter elephant stronghold in Congo, conservationists fear massacre

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2013

Conservation policies that boost farm yields may ultimately undermine forest protection, argues study

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2013

Beautiful striped bat is the “find of a lifetime” (photos)

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

Infamous elephant poacher turns cannibal in the Congo

Pete Jones 3 Apr 2013

Forging zoos into global conservation centers, an interview with Cristian Samper, head of WCS

Mark Szotek 25 Mar 2013

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

62% of all Africa’s forest elephants killed in 10 years (warning: graphic images)

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2013

New illegal logging ban in EU could sever all ties with companies working in DRC

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2013

Elephant massacre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2013

Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmental artist ventures into the Congo

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2013

Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Over 11,000 elephants killed by poachers in a single park [warning: graphic photo]

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2013

Gorilla paradise: new park safeguards 15,000 western lowland gorillas

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2013

The year in rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2012

DR Congo gets first validated and verified REDD+ project

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2012

Congo ranger ambushed and killed defending wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2012

Okapi Conservation Project wins mongabay’s 2012 conservation award

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2012

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2012

Mountain gorilla population up by over 20 percent in five years

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2012

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jeremy Hance 8 Nov 2012

‘The ivory trade is like drug trafficking’ (warning graphic images)

Alejandra Martins 5 Nov 2012

Rebels kill 3 rangers in Congo’s Virunga National Park

Mongabay.com 27 Oct 2012

NASA satellites catch vast deforestation inside Virunga National Park

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2012

British government comes out against drilling in Virunga National Park by UK company

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2012

Illegal logging worth $30-100B annually

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2012

Rarest gorillas lose half their habitat in 20 years

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2012

Rodents have lowest diversity in primary forests in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

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