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The Great Insect Dying: The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Lions vs. porcupines: A thorny tale with a moral about man-eaters

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

Hippos poop a lot of silica, and that’s critical for Africa’s rivers and lakes

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2019

New ancient, giant carnivore described from bones in museum drawer

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019

Kenya on the brink of acquitting ivory trafficker number four (commentary)

Chris Morris 10 Apr 2019

Combining artificial intelligence and citizen science to improve wildlife surveys

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Mar 2019
The Flipflopi under sail from Watamu to Kilifi, Kenya. Image by Anthony Langat for Mongabay.

Flip-flop-clad boat brings plastic recycling message to East African coast

Anthony Langat 8 Mar 2019

Kenya: Maasai herders work to keep themselves and wildlife roaming free

Michael Parks 28 Feb 2019

The good luck black cat, revealed by camera traps

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Feb 2019
A blue pansy (Junonia orithya), a species occasionally available through Kipepeo Butterfly Project. Image by yakovlev.alexey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Butterfly business: Insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Janet Njung’e 8 Feb 2019

Dodging charging elephants in a Kenyan forest (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2019

Can satellite data help monitor sustainable rural development?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2018
Naisimari Lentula, a Yiaku herbalist, with a community forest scout outside her house. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

For Kenya’s Yiaku, medicinal herbs are their forest’s blessing and curse

Shadrack Kavilu 30 Nov 2018
Lazarus Lentula, a 27-year-old leader of the Yiaku forest guards, who patrol and monitor Mukogodo for illegal activity. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

Kenya: Bees help indigenous Yiaku defend and monitor their ancestral forest

Shadrack Kavilu 28 Nov 2018
A group of Yiaku youth scouts, who have been trained by the Kenya Forest Service to take part in forest patrols and other conservation activities. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

A forest of their own: The Yiaku as Kenya’s model forest stewards

Shadrack Kavilu 26 Nov 2018

Radar helps Kenya map mangroves and other cloud-covered forests

Gatonye Gathura 15 Nov 2018

Satellite technology unites Kenyans against bush fires

David Njagi 9 Nov 2018

Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud

Rosalia Omungo 30 Oct 2018

Illegal wildlife trade’s ‘dirty money’ targeted by big banks

James Fair 19 Oct 2018

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Nathan Siegel 8 Oct 2018

Kenya’s Mijikenda people revive sacred homesteads to protect the forest

Sophie Mbugua 1 Oct 2018

Amid ongoing evictions, Kenya’s Sengwer make plans to save their ancestral forest

Anthony Langat 24 Sep 2018

Monitoring the ambitious land restoration commitments in Africa

Sophie Mbugua 3 Sep 2018

Farmers see promise and profit for agroforestry in southern Kenya

David Njagi 31 Aug 2018

Q&A: Esther Mwangi on why voices of local community members will be featured at GLF Africa conference

Mike Gaworecki 28 Aug 2018

The appeal acquittal of Feisal Mohamed Ali: A victory for rule of law, a process corrupted, or both? (commentary)

Chris Morris 17 Aug 2018

In Kenya’s Maasai Mara, detection dogs are a ranger’s best friend

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Jul 2018

10 of 11 black rhinos now dead after relocation attempt in Kenya takes tragic turn

Mongabay.com 26 Jul 2018

Securing a future for Grevy’s zebras and the cultures of northern Kenya (commentary)

Alex Dudley 19 Jul 2018

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