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Poachers kill two rare white giraffes

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020
Fishing boat, Inhambane, Mozambique. Image by Gus McLeod via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

East Africa’s reefs being fished at unsustainable rates, study finds

Jim Tan 5 Mar 2020

Marginalized voices from resource conflicts enter the mainstream via video

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020
Hell's Gate National Park. Image by Nao Iizuka via Wikicommons (CC BY 2.0)

Music festival in Kenyan national park ruffles feathers

Gilbert Nakweya 9 Feb 2020

Lucky ducks: Once thought extinct, rare pochards take steps toward recovery

Edward Carver 6 Feb 2020

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020

Answers in excrement: Fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates

Chia-Yi Hou 29 Jan 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020

Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees

Malavika Vyawahare, Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jan 2020

Concerns about radioactive contamination dog Rio Tinto’s Madagascar mine

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019
Grey Crowned Cranes. Image by Fredrick Mugira for Mongabay.

Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes

Fredrick Mugira 24 Dec 2019

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019

Madagascar: Is NGO-led conservation too conservative to conserve much?

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019
Murchison Falls. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In a flip-flop, Uganda says it’ll allow a study for a dam at Murchison Falls

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2019

Tree-planting programs turn to tech solutions to track effectiveness

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

Madagascar’s bold reforestation goal lacks a coherent plan, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019
Camera trap image of a pangolin foraging at night in South Sudan. Credit: Bucknell University/Fauna and Flora International

Pangolins are a victim of political instability in South Sudan

Ashleigh Papp 21 Nov 2019

Madagascar regulator under scrutiny in breach at Rio Tinto-controlled mine

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Nov 2019

Can a national management plan halt Madagascar’s shark decline?

Edward Carver 11 Nov 2019

Madagascar suspends activities at controversial Base Toliara mine

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Nov 2019

Finding hope in ‘extreme conservation’ (Insider)

John Cannon 31 Oct 2019

Can camera traps diagnose the severity of a mystery giraffe skin disease?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Oct 2019
Tanzanian farmer Julia Yusufu with two of her agricultural tools, a radio and her cell phone. Image courtesy Farm Radio International

Fighting Africa’s fall armyworm invasion with radio shows and phone apps

Stephanie Parker 28 Oct 2019

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019
Field inspection for fall armyworm in Kakamega County, Kenya.

A scramble for solutions as fall armyworm infestation sweeps Africa

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Oct 2019

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019
Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019

A ‘sly’ species of leaf-tailed gecko uncovered from Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Oct 2019

Avoiding climate apartheid in East Africa (commentary)

Andrew Bogrand 21 Oct 2019

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