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Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Mongabay’s top 5 forests stories of 2019 (so far) for International Forests Day

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Tanja Venisnik 21 Feb 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

Claire Salisbury 25 Jun 2018
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2018

Online network seeks to boost international collaboration against wildlife trafficking in Central Africa

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 May 2018

Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rachel Fritts 6 Apr 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018
Geographer Tom Smith talks with the Baka in Somalomo village in South Cameroon. Photo by: Trevon Fuller.

Waning plantain yields in rural Cameroon hurt college attendance

Anna Katrina Hunter 7 Dec 2017

Supporting conservation by playing a game? Seriously? (commentary)

Claude Garcia 26 Oct 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

African great ape bushmeat crisis intensifies; few solutions in sight

Sharon Guynup 7 Jul 2017

Conservation lessons from the bonobos

Kim Harrisberg 1 May 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017
Hydropower in Asia

Building environmental community and transparency through maps

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Mar 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

New population of rare Dryas monkey videotaped for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Feb 2017

NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu 31 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Major Congo Basin forest conference convenes in Rwanda

John Cannon, Ric Francis 21 Nov 2016

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