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NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu 31 Jan 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier and Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

What to expect for rainforests in 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Brazzaville-issued mining permits dip into Congo’s flagship park

John Cannon 31 Oct 2016

Cables reveal US gov’t role in Herakles Farms land grab in Cameroon

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

In unprecedented move, Michelin adopts zero deforestation for rubber sourcing

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2016

Gabon moves to share forestry profits with local forest communities

Mike Gaworecki 18 May 2016

Protections for Africa’s rainforests aren’t working for people or wildlife: report

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

Eavesdropping on Cameroon’s poachers to save endangered primates

Claire Salisbury 20 Apr 2016

An agribusiness revolution is needed to save Africa’s last great apes

William H. Funk 12 Apr 2016

Palm oil’s new frontier: averting a Great Ape catastrophe in Cameroon

Claire Salisbury 1 Apr 2016

Major legal system breakdowns threaten great apes of Africa, Asia

William H. Funk 31 Mar 2016

Leuser’s Legacy: how rescued orangutans help assure species survival

Laurel Neme 30 Mar 2016

Oil palm company takes lead on sustainable agriculture in Gabon

John Cannon 15 Mar 2016

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2016

Survival International files formal complaint against WWF for allegedly violating human rights of Baka ‘Pygmies’

Shreya Dasgupta 22 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

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Does sustainable forest management actually protect forests?

John Cannon 27 Jan 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

Cameroon convicts activist campaigning against palm oil company

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2015

Key forest countries’ climate pledges fall short on emissions from land use and deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2015

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

Rainforest communities can now report illegal logging with their mobile phones

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2015

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

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