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

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

Republic of the Congo expands park to protect fearless chimps

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2012

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2012

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

The year in review for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2011

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

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2011

Illuminating Africa’s most obscure cat

Jeremy Hance 18 Oct 2011

Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Sep 2011

Congo to ‘reforest’ with plantations across one million hectares

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2011

African forests store 25% of tropical forest carbon

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2011

How do we save Africa’s forests?

Karimeh Moukaddem 19 Jun 2011

Locals clash with ‘sustainable’ FSC logging company in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2011

Elephants: the gardeners of Asia’s and Africa’s forests

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2011

Tropical countries aim for global forest pact

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2011

Oil exploration on hold in Virunga National Park—for now

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2011

Goodbye national parks: when ‘eternal’ protected areas come under attack

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2011

Congo legalizes 15 logging concessions, prompting concern that moratorium will be lifted next

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2011

Oil company charged after allegedly forcing entry into Virunga National Park

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2011

UN and conservation organizations condemn big oil’s plan to drill in Virunga National Park

Jeremy Hance 20 Jan 2011

Free availability of satellite imagery has boosted deforestation monitoring applications, but risk of data gap looms

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2010

Financial crisis pummels wildlife and people in the Congo rainforest

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2010

Into the Congo: saving bonobos means aiding left-behind communities, an interview with Gay Reinartz

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2010

Dapatkah Biochar Selamatkan Dunia?

Oleh Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2010

Could biochar save the world?

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2010

80% of rainforests could adversely impacted by logging, deforestation, climate change by 2100

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2010

New plan to save the chimpanzee from extinction

Jeremy Hance 21 Jun 2010

Cameroon agrees to cut illegal wood out of its supply chain

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2010

Protected areas vital for saving elephants, chimps, and gorillas in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2010

United States has higher percentage of forest loss than Brazil

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2010

Population density corresponds with forest loss in the Congo Basin

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2010

Guerrillas could drive gorillas toward extinction in Congo, warns UN

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2010

Congo basin rainforest countries

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2010

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