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a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024
Squared-off blocks of timber, stacked on a flatbed truck fitted with a mechanic loader arm at the Klay Checkpoint, Bomi, Liberia. Image courtesy James Harding Giahyue/The Daylight.

New illegal logging threatens Liberia’s forests amid vague ban

James Giahyue 2 May 2024
Three forestry workers standing in front of logs that have been skidded out to a logging road in River Cess County, Liberia in 2013. Image by Flore de Preneuf/PROFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Liberia puts a wartime logger in charge of its forests

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Apr 2024
People walking through a forest.

Control of Africa’s forests must not be sold to carbon offset companies (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Nov 2023
People walking through a forest.

Massive carbon offset deal with Dubai-based firm draws fire in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Aug 2023
An oil palm plantation and natural forest in Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Conservationists decry palm oil giants’ exit from HCSA forest protection group

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Mar 2023
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

Palm oil plantation linked to Wilmar faces accusations in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Feb 2023

Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022

Liberia loggers felling trees outside concession as government stands by

James Giahyue 23 Nov 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020
Still image from footage of a Wild Chimpanzee Foundation camera trap set up in Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia, showing a Diana Monkey (Cercopithecus diana).

Watch: Rare wildlife caught on camera in a remote Liberian rainforest

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Sep 2020

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jul 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

Fighting corruption in Liberia through on-the-ground reporting (insider)

Ashoka Mukpo 7 May 2019

Meet the winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2019

Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough

Jennifer O’Mahony 22 Mar 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2019

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2018
A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

African wood industry: 10,000 micro-businesses need support for sustainable trade

Joseph Charpentier 22 Oct 2018

Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil? (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 16 Oct 2018

Palm oil giant’s claim it can’t control Liberian subsidiary a ‘red herring,’ NGO says

Daniel Pye 12 Sep 2018

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Daniel Pye 17 Jul 2018

Online mapping tool tracks land-use changes down to the farm

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 Jul 2018

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

John Cannon 22 Sep 2017
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 Mar 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett A. Butler 31 Dec 2016

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