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Element Africa: Deadly violence and massive graft at Tanzania and DRC mines

What happened in the world’s rainforests in 2022?

Environmental peacebuilding must pay more attention to armed groups (commentary)

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

After 14 years of advocacy, the DRC president finally signs new Indigenous peoples law (commentary)

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Study highlights ‘friends with benefits’ relation between gorillas and chimps

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Locals in the dark about oil auctions in DRC: report

The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are no better, report says

Catfished: New species described from DRC after mistaken identity

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

Loggers close in on one of the world’s oldest biosphere reserves

In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid

Suspension of Chinese miner for pollution in DRC points to wider problem

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

Oil exploration in DR Congo peatland risks forests, climate and local communities

Scheme to stop ‘conflict minerals’ fails to end child labor in DRC, report says

DRC logging contracts suspended as audit uncovers serious violations

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

In Nigeria, a decade of payoffs boosted global wildlife trafficking hub

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero

The year in rainforests 2021

The Congo Basin’s 10 most consequential stories from 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

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