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‘An oval with legs’: In search of Tanzania’s tiny island antelope

Ryan Truscott 20 Jan 2025
Khamis Ali Khamis, acting-chief-in-charge of Ngezi Forest Reserve, wearing a brown peaked cap and green t-shirt, smiles at the camera. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

Growing conservation and community: Interview with Ngezi reserve chief

Ryan Truscott 20 Jan 2025
For Gehano Guchiro Nekayto, these terraces aren’t just a method of farming; they’re the lifeblood of his community and represent a vital connection to land and cultural identity. Image by Solomon Yimer.

Sustaining a 400-year-old Ethiopian farming tradition: Interview with elder Gehano Guchoir

Solomon Yimer 17 Jan 2025

For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Jan 2025

‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024

Kenya embraces electric buses to combat air pollution

Stephanie Wangari 12 Dec 2024
A southern patas monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki) sits on the branch of a tree in the Serengeti. Image courtesy Katie Sanborn.

Gum-eating Tanzanian monkey is AWOL, fueling extinction fears

Ryan Truscott 9 Dec 2024
A Maasai looking over Ololosokwan. Image by Benjamin Hindrichs.

How German government funds are used to dispossess Tanzania’s Maasai in Serengeti land grab

Benjamin Hindrichs 29 Nov 2024

Kenya blames and evicts Ogiek people for deforestation, but forest loss persists

Caroline Chebet 28 Nov 2024

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Nov 2024
In a village near Kebribeyah district of Somali regional state, a young herder guides the cattle to the water source, keeping the age-old tradition alive. Image by Solomon Yimer.

As climate change upends Ethiopia’s pastoral wisdom, adaptations can help

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Solomon Yimer 26 Nov 2024

Vulture poisonings in the Serengeti alarm conservationists

Sean Mowbray 26 Nov 2024

Logging persists in Cameroon’s wildlife-rich Ebo Forest despite warnings

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 Nov 2024
Tastefully-hatted Desmond Alugnoa smiles at project manager Jakob Attakpah in front of an Earthshot Prize banner. Image courtesy Earthshot Prize.

From landfill to limelight, Ghana waste entrepreneurs win Earthshot Prize

Petro Kotzé 14 Nov 2024
A graceful grey crested crane in the Eldoret-Iten watershed-Image Courtesy of TNC.

In Kenya, a water fund brings to light Indigenous cultural identity issues

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 12 Nov 2024
Paul Sang, a community leader of the Indigenous Ogiek community

A Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Nov 2024

Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2024
A boat arrives at Chikombe Beach with a haul of fish from Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

How a lineage of chiefs built a thriving fish oasis in Lake Malawi

Charles Mpaka 4 Nov 2024
Terrat residents at an entrepreneurship training facilitated by TACCEI. Image courtesy TACCEI.

For Tanzania’s Maasai, adapting to climate change may mean less livestock, more trees

Naomi Achieng' 30 Oct 2024
Farmer Rachael Njeri collects soils samples on her land. She has started growing forage strips on her farm which prevent soil erosion and provide feed for her cattle. Image by CIAT/GeorginaSmith via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

In Kenya, a river restoration initiative pays for itself, and then some

Ochieng' Ogodo 29 Oct 2024
Loxodonta africana cyclotis. Forest elephant bull Gamba, Gabon. Image by WWF / Hervé MORAND with courtesy.

WWF report offers glimmer of conservation hope — yet warns of a planet in peril

Anne Nzouankeu, David Akana 10 Oct 2024
Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024
Women make up a considerable proportion of the coffee farmers in the area.

Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Oct 2024
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

At Climate Week and beyond, investing in community conservation pays big dividends (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 26 Sep 2024
A vegetable grower using agroecological methods in Boung Phao Village, Lao PDR. Photo: Asian Development Bank, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Global ‘Slow Food’ movement embraces agroecology (commentary)

Edward Mukiibi 24 Sep 2024
A young girl in a pale pink dress, a bobble hat and smile, pushing a wheelbarrow with two large yellow water containers across a field at Kapsambu village, Mt Elgon, Kenya. Image courtesy Infonile.

New approach to land management in Africa aims to climate-proof ecosystems

Mactilda Mbenywe 23 Sep 2024
Stunning photo is the first ever of a yellow-crested helmetshrike. Image by Matt Brady.

‘Dream birds’ in the mist: First photo of ‘lost’ bird in DRC mountains

Ryan Truscott 23 Sep 2024
A ranger with the Uganda Wildlife Authority on patrol in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in November 2023. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

US govt watchdog: Human rights still at risk in overseas conservation aid

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Sep 2024

Maasai women struggle to survive amid forced evictions in conservation area

Bobby Bascomb 13 Sep 2024
Peter Kamowa settled in the edge of the forest and helps to guard it from invasion. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

As Malawi government struggles to protect a forest, communities show the way

Charles Mpaka 29 Aug 2024

Luxury hunting firm linked to decades of poaching in Tanzania, whistleblowers say

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2024

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