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Pangolin walking on its hind legs. Image courtesy of Tikki Hywood Foundation.

‘Shocking’ levels of pangolin deaths from electric fences (commentary)

Cara Trivella, Ellen Connelly 2 Jun 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023
A black-footed cat.

‘Anthill tiger’: Putting one of Africa’s rarest wildcats on the radar

Petro Kotzé 18 May 2023

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023
Aerial view of a massive pile of black coal looming over a small pool and scattered trees near Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image courtesy Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Authority.

South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”

Anna Weekes 26 Apr 2023
A herd of elephants near the Linyanti River in northern Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Conserve wildlands in southern Africa by protecting Indigenous rights (commentary)

Daniel Kaul 21 Apr 2023

Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)

Izzy Sasada 19 Apr 2023

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023
A cobalt mine in central Africa.

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2023
Rhino tracker with their back to the camera in the foreground, looking at an alert black rhino in the middle ground. Image by Ultimate Safaris.

Namibian community protects its rhinos from poaching but could lose them to mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2023

‘Locals want their resources to last’: Q&A with marine ecologist Vilma Machava-António

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Mount Namuli.

Forests & finance: Setbacks for a rare bat, and progress for an oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2023

Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023
Village Headman Kawale.

Australian niobium mining project instills 16 years of anxiety for Malawi communities

Charles Mpaka 18 Jan 2023
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Weekes 28 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022
A researcher tagging a mouse lemur in Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Millions are spent on climate research in Africa. Western institutes get most of it

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022
Front-end loader in a raw clearing in forests in Sudcam's concession near Cameroon's Dja Faunal Reserve. Image courtesy Nchemty Metimi Ozongashu / Greenpeace.

Forests & Finance: Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2022
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022
Zebras in Okavango Delta.

Protecting the peatlands and woodlands in Angola’s ‘source of life’

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2022
Laborers at a cobalt mine.

Element Africa: Keeping platinum in the ground, and minors out of mines

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2022
A gorilla at the habituation project in Campo Ma'an National Park. Image courtesy Campo Ma'an National Park via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Forests & Finance: From logging in Cameroon to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Weekes 24 Oct 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
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Forests & Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2022

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