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COP25: Laura Vargas inspires with power of faith in defense of forests

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2019

Finding hope in ‘extreme conservation’ (Insider)

John Cannon 31 Oct 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019

Companies ‘disregard responsibility’ over conflict minerals: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2019

DRC’s Okapi Wildlife Reserve gets new management partner in WCS

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2019

Campaigners push for reform of outdated CITES wildlife trade system

James Fair 12 Aug 2019
Timber packaged for delivery. Photo courtesy ZSL.

Forestry companies warned over environmental policies

James Fair 5 Aug 2019
Timber are only allowed to be exported via ports and must be processed before export in Myanmar. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Can REDD+ bring more women into forest conservation?

Jennifer Rigby 18 Jun 2019
An elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Did efforts to protect DRC’s elephants and bonobos leave a trail of abuses?

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Jun 2019

Inside an ambitious project to rewild trafficked bonobos in the Congo Basin

Christopher Clark 11 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019
A juvenile bonobo (Pan paniscus) gazes at an uncertain future.

Back into the Wild: Ekola ya Bonobo sanctuary reintroduces bonobos to the Congo Basin forests

Christopher Clark, Shaun Swingler 14 Apr 2019
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Apr 2019
The landscape of Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

EU customers warned over possible illegal timber from the Congo

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Mar 2019
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Mongabay’s top 5 forests stories of 2019 (so far) for International Forests Day

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

Report: Turkish carrier is ‘poacher’s airline of choice’ for parrot trade

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Feb 2019

DRC’s Virunga to welcome visitors again after 8-month closure

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2019

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

Cellphones are still endangering gorillas, but recycling old ones can help

Tina Deines 17 Jan 2019

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

John Cannon 10 Jan 2019
Fungi in Yunnan, China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests: storylines to watch in 2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

COP24: Tropical deforestation risks undermining 1.5-degree warming limit

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2018
An indigenous Colombian takes in deforestation close to the Amacayacu National Park in the Colombian Amazon.

Scientists team up with indigenous, faithful to fight for forests

Andrew J. Wight 11 Dec 2018

Plan to ship gorillas from DRC to Zimbabwe raises alarm

Andrew Mambondiyani 16 Nov 2018

‘Not all hope is lost’ as outlook for mountain gorillas brightens

John Cannon 14 Nov 2018

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 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

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

Ape sanctuaries in the DRC brace themselves as Ebola hits the country

Tina Deines 2 Oct 2018

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