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Can public-private partnerships preserve the dwindling biodiversity of Lagos?

Kolawole Talabi 5 Jul 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016

CyberTracking for Africa’s most endangered ape

Julia John 25 Mar 2016

Nigerian government urged to halt “land grab” in Ekuri community forest

Mike Gaworecki 11 Mar 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016

Photos: Can helping local people save an embattled Nigerian park?

Lawal Sani Kona 20 Jan 2016

Countries call for new CITES protections for rosewood species

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016
The study authors counted carcasses from hundreds of markets like this one, where visitors can purchase whole birds and their body parts. Photo by Gerhard Nikolaus.

Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Brendan Bane 19 Nov 2015

Superhighway construction surges forward in Nigeria

John Cannon 17 Nov 2015

Wilmar accused of Nigerian ‘land grab’ for palm oil

Greg Norman 21 Jul 2015

Private sector innovations reduce food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 1 Jun 2015

Ghosts of problems past and present loom over Nigerian palm oil plans

Greg Norman 28 May 2015

Elephant poaching rate unchanged – and still devastating

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2015

World’s rarest gorilla gets a new protected home

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Don’t eat or touch bat bushmeat amid worsening Ebola outbreak, UN warns

Jeremy Hance 29 Jul 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

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Deutsche Bank dumps controversial palm oil company

Mongabay.com 27 May 2014

Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

NASA detects surge in deforestation in Malaysia, Bolivia during first quarter of 2014

Mongabay.com 21 Apr 2014

Richest countries spent $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011, eclipsing climate finance by seven times

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2013

Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate that can be shot on sight

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2013

Illegal marijuana cultivation threatens Nigeria’s forests and chimps

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jul 2013

Fertility in Africa could push world population over 11 billion

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2013

Top security official in Nigeria blames climate change for worsening insecurity

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2013

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

Guide for filing complaints on rule-breaking by palm oil companies published

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2013

As U.S. sees record heat, extreme weather pummels 4 continents

Jeremy Hance 10 Jul 2012

Alarm rising over food crisis in Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2012

First camera trap video of world’s rarest gorilla includes shocking charge

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2012

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