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Temminck's Ground Pangolin: Photo: KeithConnelly

Documentary seeks to tip the scales against illegal pangolin trafficking

Erna Curry 27 Jun 2019

In a first, chimps found bashing tortoises against trees to get at the meat

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2018

The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018

Camera trap captures spotted hyena in Gabon national park, the first in 20 years

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

Citizen scientists around the world are monitoring elephants in Gabon via camera traps — and you can too

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

More than 25,000 elephants were killed in a Gabon national park in one decade

Mike Gaworecki 24 Feb 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett A. Butler 31 Dec 2016

Palm oil giant defends its deforestation in Gabon, points to country’s ‘right to develop’

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2016

Hunting stymies rainforest regrowth, says a new study

John Cannon 10 Nov 2016

Forest conservation can offset emissions from palm oil expansion in Africa: Study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Gabon moves to share forestry profits with local forest communities

Mike Gaworecki 18 May 2016

Protections for Africa’s rainforests aren’t working for people or wildlife: report

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

Major legal system breakdowns threaten great apes of Africa, Asia

William H. Funk 31 Mar 2016

Oil palm company takes lead on sustainable agriculture in Gabon

John Cannon 15 Mar 2016

Shocking discovery in Gabon: a new electric fish

Mike Gaworecki 11 Feb 2016

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett A. Butler 30 Sep 2015

Using DNA evidence to pinpoint poaching zones

Suzanne Palminteri 30 Jun 2015

King of the jungle returns to Gabon after nearly 20 year absence

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2015

UN report warns of grave consequences if mangroves not protected

Mike Gaworecki 11 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett A. Butler 25 Feb 2015

Selective logging causes long-term changes to forest structure

Rhett A. Butler 18 Feb 2015

Gabon protects 23% of its coastal waters

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2014

Climate change to boost farmland, diminish harvests, says new study

John Cannon 29 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Looming mining ‘tsunami’ set to take Africa by storm

John Cannon 20 Aug 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

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