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Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020
Foothills of the Atewa forest range. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana’s government faces pushback in bid to mine biodiversity haven for bauxite

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 5 Feb 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

‘We have cut them all’: Ghana struggles to protect its last old-growth forests

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Aug 2019

Lost in translation: Green regulations backfire without local context

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2019
Temminck's Ground Pangolin: Photo: KeithConnelly

Documentary seeks to tip the scales against illegal pangolin trafficking

Erna Curry 27 Jun 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019

Hunters are wiping out hornbills in Ghana’s forests

John Cannon 23 May 2018

The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)

Mark Olden 23 Mar 2018

Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2018

Chocolate makers agree to stop cutting down forests in West Africa for cocoa

Mike Gaworecki 21 Nov 2017

Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing wood’s origin

Emily Kaldjian, Loretta Cheung, Ruth Nogueron 23 May 2016

7 conservationists win the ‘Green Oscars’

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Apr 2016

International forest conservation finance is flowing to Africa

Mike Gaworecki 26 Apr 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

‘Catastrophic’ decline: nearly 99% of African grey parrots wiped out in Ghana

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Dec 2015

Illegal logging decimating birds in Ghana: ‘These numbers are shocking’

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2015

Cleaning up cacao: making the chocolate business more sustainable

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2015

Selective logging causes long-term changes to forest structure

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

Can it be stopped? Ghana’s forests ‘could completely disappear in less than 25 years’

Judy Ogutu 25 Aug 2014

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

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

Bulk of Ghana timber exports may be illegal

Mongabay.com 30 May 2013

Beautiful striped bat is the “find of a lifetime” (photos)

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2012

High-tech hell: new documentary brings Africa’s e-waste slum to life

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2012

Six nations, including U.S., set up climate initiative to target short-term greenhouse gases

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2012

Saving Ghana’s vanishing frogs

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2011

Children on the frontlines: the e-waste epidemic in Africa

Karimeh Moukaddem 9 Sep 2011

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