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Mohéli hosts one of the largest nesting sites for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Indian Ocean.

For 20 years, Comoros had only 1 national park. It’s now creating 5 more

Malavika Vyawahare 31 May 2022
Flower of the large-leafed orange mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza)

Poor planning, persistent farming undermine mangrove restoration in Tanzania

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 May 2022
Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022
A young girl carrying one of her goats as they travel home at the end of the day.

Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play

Kang-Chun Cheng 19 May 2022
A pack of hyenas in Tanzania.

Spotted hyenas adapt to climate change in famed Tanzanian park

Ryan Truscott 18 May 2022
A hooded vulture

Scientists uncover widespread declines of raptors in Kenya

Caroline Chebet 17 May 2022
Headshot of an African grey parrot in profile. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Ugandan court hands Congolese parrot trafficker seven-year jail sentence

Benjamin Jumbe 13 May 2022
An artisanal fisherman next to a ship in Madagascar.

Murky provenance of a Chinese fleet clouds Madagascar shrimp fishery

Rivonala Razafison 11 May 2022
A diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema).

Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

Malavika Vyawahare 11 May 2022
Fishermen on Lake Victoria.

Boom and bust on Lake Victoria: Q&A with author Mark Weston

John Cannon 10 May 2022

Partnering with farmers is key to land restoration success (commentary)

Ermias Betemariam, Marcela Quintero 3 May 2022
Seagrass in Tanzania.

To get people thinking about seagrass, Seychelles coins new Creole words

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2022
Burundian soldiers in a nursery.

In Burundi, one-time combatants who razed forests now raise seedlings

Dieudonné Ndanezerewe 21 Apr 2022
A mother and baby gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.

Road projects threaten integrity of Uganda’s mountain gorilla stronghold

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Apr 2022
Rosewood stacked for river transport in Madagascar, 2010.

Madagascar’s insistence on using seized rosewood rattles conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Mar 2022

Stronghold for Africa’s rarest falcon discovered in reserve threatened by Mozambique insurgency

Ryan Truscott 24 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022
A herd of elephants near the Linyanti River in northern Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

In plan for African wildlife corridors, there’s more than one elephant in the room

Ryan Truscott 7 Mar 2022

Cold case: Half-hearted prosecution lets ivory traffickers escape in Uganda

Mongabay 4 Mar 2022
Kenya

In Kenya, a community regrew its forest — and redefined reforestation success

Jackson Okata 24 Feb 2022

Tanzania, siding with UAE firm, plans to evict Maasai from ancestral lands

Laurel Sutherland 18 Feb 2022

Seychelles embraces transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Feb 2022

Two storms in two weeks carve trail of death and destruction in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2022

Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2022

Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions

Keit Silale 25 Jan 2022

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

Thomas Lewton 14 Jan 2022

In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 5 Jan 2022

Changes to Madagascar’s trawling sector raise questions and hopes

Edward Carver 29 Dec 2021

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021
Illegally logged rosewood from Masoala and Marojejy in Antalaha, Madagascar, circa 2005.

Kenya court orders return of $13m in seized rosewood to suspected traffickers

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Dec 2021

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