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Screenshot from a propaganda video released by JNIM depicting a training camp in Burkina Faso, 2024.

Trained to stop poaching, Benin park rangers instead face jihadists

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2024
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Feb 2022

‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders

Leilani Chavez 28 Jul 2020

Activists fighting for their lands swept up in Philippines crackdown

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2019

Kenya crackdown on terrorism threatens NGOs, wildlife, media

Protus Onyango 3 Apr 2015

Somali charcoal: funding terrorism through deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2015

Elephants worth much, much more alive than dead, says new report

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Oct 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Tanzania should implement shoot-to-kill policy for poachers, says government minister

David Smith 9 Oct 2013

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