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Forging zoos into global conservation centers, an interview with Cristian Samper, head of WCS

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

62% of all Africa’s forest elephants killed in 10 years (warning: graphic images)

New illegal logging ban in EU could sever all ties with companies working in DRC

Warlords, sorcery, and wildlife: an environmental artist ventures into the Congo

Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

The year in rainforests

DR Congo gets first validated and verified REDD+ project

‘Exporting deforestation’: China is the kingpin of illegal logging

Foreign loggers and corrupt officials flouting logging moratorium in the Democratic Republic of Congo

NASA satellites catch vast deforestation inside Virunga National Park

Illegal logging worth $30-100B annually

Remarkable new monkey discovered in remote Congo rainforest

Palm oil company in Cameroon drops bid for eco-certification of controversial plantation

Turning gorilla poachers into conservationists in the Congo [warning: graphic photos]

Poacher known as ‘Morgan’ behind devastating massacre at Okapi Wildlife Reserve

10,000 sq mi of Congo rainforest declared World Heritage site

Congolese experts needed to protect Congo Basin rainforests

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Controversial logging company sells operations in DR Congo

Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest

Oil exploration approved in Africa’s oldest park, Virunga National Park

Republic of the Congo expands park to protect fearless chimps

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

The year in review for rainforests

Unsung heroes: the life of a wildlife ranger in the Congo

Illuminating Africa’s most obscure cat

Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon

Congo to ‘reforest’ with plantations across one million hectares

African forests store 25% of tropical forest carbon

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