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Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote. Photo courtesy of The Habari Network.

Environmental activists in Kenya concerned over billionaire’s planned oil refinery

Amina Chombo 5 Aug 2026
Fishing boats in Luanda Kotieno.

Kenyans protesting nuclear facility face terrorism investigation

Elodie Toto 4 Aug 2026

Kenya investigates mysterious deaths of 15 elephants in Amboseli

Lynet Otieno 29 Jul 2026
Baraka Moruri plays with an avocado tree at their home in Nairobi. Photo by Lawrine Moruri.

Kenyan teen leads charge on tree planting and climate awareness

Lynet Otieno 29 Jul 2026
Ravenea latisecta courtesy of Louis Aureglia.

Rare palm tree rediscovered in Madagascar after nearly 100 years

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2026

Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026
Women and youth entrepreneurs in Kenya receiving training in clean cooking techniques. Image courtesy of UNDP Kenya.

Clean cooking expands at record pace in Africa, but lags behind population growth

Ini Ekott 20 Jul 2026
Through the Mazingira Women Initiative, Hamida has spent those years organizing around waste management, smart farming, land rights and women’s leadership.

Waste, women & environmental justice: Interview with Nubian activist Malasen Hamida

Ouma Elvine Tina 14 Jul 2026
A male Walia ibex in Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Paul Scholte.

Ethiopia’s iconic Walia ibex is critically endangered once again

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jul 2026
Rothschild's giraffes at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The Tilenga and Kingfisher fields lie close to the park. Image by Daryona via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline project in UK court

Elodie Toto 8 Jul 2026
Community members collect plastic waste during a beach cleanup organized by COMRED on Kenya’s coast. Image courtesy of COMRED.

‘The only possible transition is a just transition’: Interview with WEF’s Clemence Schmid

Jackson Ambole Okata 7 Jul 2026

As East Africa’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods

Associated Press 6 Jul 2026
Peter Kitur, a 72-year-old farmer in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya, who buys the government subsidized fertilizer. Photo by Achieng' Otieino/Mongabay.

Running on empty: How the gulf war is threatening Kenya’s food security

Achieng’ Otieno 3 Jul 2026
Gelada monkeys engage in a group hug in Wilhelma Zoo in Germany. Image © Julie Larsen.

Gelada monkeys huddle in the cold: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2026
Vans line up waiting for a kill in Maasai Mara, Kenya.

Kenya’s overcrowded safaris: Wildlife for who?

Izzy Sasada 28 Jun 2026

Women patrol Tanzania’s Pemba waters in a community-led push to protect the sea

David Akana 27 Jun 2026
According to Lovin Kobusingye, the women who catch, process and sell fish are still largely missing from conversations about Africa's growing blue economy. Photo: Environmental Justice Foundation.

A trailblazing Ugandan championing women in African fisheries: Q&A with Lovin Kobusingye

David Akana 26 Jun 2026
Mangroves along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast. Image by Malavika Vyawahare/Mongabay.

Our Ocean Conference in Kenya ends with $6.4 billion in pledges, review of past promises

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jun 2026
Alice Kazungu, a fishmonger and vice chair of the newly formed Mida Beach Management Unit (BMU), in Watamu, Kenya. Image by David Akana/Mongabay.

In Kenya’s Mida Creek, fishers confront a changing ocean with hope

David Akana 25 Jun 2026

How a tiny blue gecko became a conservation comeback story

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jun 2026
Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) are found only in the island nation of Madagascar.

Australian authorities seize 100,000 live cockroaches in crackdown on exotic insect trade

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jun 2026
A fisherman walks, left, with his catch as needlefish hang at right at the Shimoni port, in Kwale county, Kenya

To improve its floundering fisheries, Kenya boosts data collection on artisanal fleet

Anthony Langat 12 Jun 2026
Shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex), Murchison Falls NP, Uganda. Image by Kyla Marino via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

East African Crude Oil Pipeline threatens wetlands, wildlife corridors: Report

Victoria Schneider 12 Jun 2026
From left to right, Tannwir Sagid Abdoul-Bari, Ismael Said Ismael, Mahamoud Ali Chirdon and Abdillah Elmi Adaneh collect water samples in Djibouti. Image courtesy of Abdillah Elmi Adaneh.

‘Chemical cocktail’ of pharmaceuticals found in Djibouti coastal waters

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026

Removal of African elephants causes coextinction of dung beetles, study finds

David Brown 11 Jun 2026

Kenya is Africa’s first country to receive crucial climate disaster funding

Lynet Otieno 11 Jun 2026
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

New study suggests Ethiopia’s protected areas may be impacting local well-being

Solomon Yimer 10 Jun 2026
A recently emerged Suraka silk moth (Antherina suraka) is held by an artisan in the SEPALI Madagascar demonstration garden in Maroantsetra. Trained local farmers use the CPALI method to collect this species’ brown silk, leaving the developing pupae unharmed. Image by Rachel Kramer/CPALI.

How silk caterpillars became a tool for conservation in Madagascar

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jun 2026

Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga arrested at protest of national park construction

Associated Press 9 Jun 2026
Elephant, Serengeti, Tanzania. Image by sama093 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Huge ivory bust raises questions about follow-up investigations in Tanzania

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
The Imbabala mine was abandoned and toxic waste formed a giant pool on the surface, creating dangerous living conditions for the Ermelo community living in the vicinity. Image courtesy of Daylin Paul/Centre for Environmental Rights (CER).

South Africa’s move away from coal marred by legacy of abandoned mines: Report

Anna Weekes 8 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026

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