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Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Nigerian superhighway project draws international attention over threats to local communities and wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 2 Nov 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 4: Inside scoop on new Netflix documentary “The Ivory Game;” orangutan habitat under threat in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2016

Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

John Cannon 24 Oct 2016

Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2016

From paper to tablet: A new way to record animal behavior

Sanjiv Fernando 14 Oct 2016

Mountain gorillas & Tree lions: experiencing nature’s biggest and baddest with Gryphon Productions

Carly Rome 3 Oct 2016

World’s largest gorilla now Critically Endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Sep 2016

A dangerous, illegal necessity: charcoal reform comes to Virunga

Sophie Mbugua 2 Aug 2016

Chew on this new way to detect disease in primates

Julia John 28 Jul 2016

Reserve with rare gorillas finally protected

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jun 2016

Disease prevention a boost to human health and great ape conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Apr 2016

The hidden toll of war: world’s largest ape plummets 77% in 20 years

Nika Levikov 5 Apr 2016

CyberTracking for Africa’s most endangered ape

Julia John 25 Mar 2016

Gorillas in threatened Cameroon forest caught on film for first time

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2016

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Sean Mowbray 16 Feb 2016

Focus on great apes, draws attention from other species, finds study

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

DRC mulls changing Virunga’s boundaries for oil

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2015

World’s rarest gorilla gets a new protected home

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

The Zanaga iron ore mine – a test of best laid plans for preserving wildlife

Daniel Stiles 6 Oct 2014

Why are great apes treated like second-class species by CITES?

Daniel Stiles Of Pegas (project To End Great Ape Slavery) 11 Sep 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Ndoki Forest, charmed or cursed? Conservationists admit sustainable logging wilting in naïve chimp habitat

Daniel Stiles 1 Aug 2014

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

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorillas hang on by a thread

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

What’s an environmental journalist to do with so much good news?

Jeremy Hance 12 Jun 2014

Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park after sustained campaign by WWF

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Big data shows tropical mammals on the decline

Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2013

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