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2019: The year rainforests burned

Female gorillas recognize and respond to contagious disease

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

Congo government opens Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to oil exploration

U.S. companies implicated in illegal timber trade from West Africa

Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Local communities feared repression from WWF, investigation finds

In the Congo Basin, a road cuts through once-untouched ape wilderness

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Republic of Congo names new national park, home to gorillas, elephants

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Video: Rare newborn western lowland gorilla filmed in the wild

Where does your timber come from? Genetic analysis may soon tell you

Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

COP23: Leaders vie for protection of ‘incredibly important’ African peatland

Video: Thousands of illegally caught African gray parrots being rehabilitated

‘Much deeper than we expected’: Huge peatland offers up more surprises

Supporting conservation by playing a game? Seriously? (commentary)

Going viral: How advancements in Ebola disease detection in wild apes can help to prevent dangerous outbreaks

Discovering the Congo carbon sink

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

World’s largest tropical peatlands discovered in swamp forests of Congo Basin

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

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

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

Two businessmen arrested for ivory trafficking

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

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