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New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson | Lara Collart | Joel Masselink 7 Mar 2025
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024
Véronique Sekuka, a Baka woman who was evicted from what is now Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

African Parks vows to investigate allegations of abuse at Congolese park

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Feb 2024

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023
A blue monkey in Virunga National Park, DRC.

COP28 cements goal to halt forest loss in 7 years, but where’s the money?

Alec Luhn 15 Dec 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

New data show 10% increase in primary tropical forest loss in 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023

Survival and economics complicate the DRC’s bushmeat and wild animal trade

John Cannon and Didier Makal 30 May 2023

Inaugural Indigenous women’s forum spotlights Congo Basin conservation

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023
Rainbow over oil palm plantations and forest in Jambi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

What happened in the world’s rainforests in 2022?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022

Loggers close in on one of the world’s oldest biosphere reserves

Gloria Pallares 13 Jun 2022

In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jun 2022
Forest elephants in the Congo Basin.

Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid

Malavika Vyawahare 18 May 2022

Oil exploration in DR Congo peatland risks forests, climate and local communities

Lawon Olalekan 16 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Feb 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

The Congo Basin’s 10 most consequential stories from 2021

John Cannon 27 Dec 2021

The past, present and future of the Congo peatlands: 10 takeaways from our series

John Cannon 16 Dec 2021

Carbon and communities: The future of the Congo Basin peatlands

John Cannon 14 Dec 2021

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands

John Cannon 9 Dec 2021

Layers of carbon: The Congo Basin peatlands and oil

John Cannon 7 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021
Emanuel Balisa Akangi, hunting in the forest, Yangambi, DRC.near Yangambi, Tshopo Province, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

DRC environment minister panned for allegedly facilitating illegal concessions

Mongabay 19 Nov 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Feb 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021

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