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How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024

Study looks for success factors in African projects that heal land and help people

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024
An African wildcat in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa. While little is known about the threats facing African wildcats in West Africa, across their range they are at risk from hybridization and disease transmission from domestic cats. Image by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

West Africa’s forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Oct 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, ‘forgotten’ foods could boost climate resilience, nutrition

Claudia Geib, Elodie Toto 26 Jul 2024
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Let it grow: Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo

Erik Hoffner 17 Aug 2022

Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app

David Njagi 26 Aug 2021

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020
Nyeema Harris and her crew deployed motion-detecting cameras throughout their study site in West Africa. Credit: University of Michigan Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

Camera traps yield surprises in West Africa’s largest protected area

Jerimiah Oetting 2 Dec 2019

Africa’s largest reserve may lose half its area to oil development

Stephen Leahy 2 Aug 2019

When losing your soil means losing your livelihood (commentary)

Sophie Erfurth 3 May 2019

Farmer-managed natural regeneration: the fastest way to restore trees to degraded landscapes?

Cathy Watson 29 Jun 2018

There are only three Saharan addax antelope left in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 6 May 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016

Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

Tanya Dimitrova 24 Jun 2014

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2013

Nearly a million people face food crisis in Niger

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2013

Scientists: stop treating population growth as a ‘given’ and empower women

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2013

Alarm rising over food crisis in Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

‘The real Hunger Games’: a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2012

15 million facing food shortages in Africa’s Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2012

Niger creates desert park bigger than Hungary

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Droughts could push parts of Africa back into famine

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Restoring forests: an opportunity for Africa

Commentartnigel Sizer 26 May 2011

Great Green Wall gets go ahead

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2011

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records

Jeremy Hance 9 Aug 2010

Food crisis in Niger occurring “out of the public eye”

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2010

Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land

Mongabay.com 28 May 2009

All about giraffes: an interview with a giraffe expert

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2009

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