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Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2022

Cold case: Half-hearted prosecution lets ivory traffickers escape in Uganda

Mongabay 4 Mar 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

Thomas Lewton 14 Jan 2022

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2021
AFIEGO staff with two supporters after their release from jail. Image courtesy AFIEGO.

Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders

Terna Gyuse 28 Oct 2021

Deprived of their forests, Uganda’s Batwa adapt their sustainable practices

Adolf Ayoreka 27 Oct 2021

For World Gorilla Day 2021, a conservation success story

Tara Stoinski 23 Sep 2021

Without room to expand, mountain gorillas’ population growth could backfire

Ini Ekott 29 Jun 2021

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Alex Tumuhimbise 17 Jun 2021

For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism

Heather Richardson 9 Jun 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021
Image of a female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2021

Teachers create lasting change for people and primates via clean cookstoves (commentary)

Corinne Kendall 10 Feb 2021
Trucks loaded with sugar cane on one of the dirt roads around Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton for Mongabay.

Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest

Thomas Lewton 5 Nov 2020

In Uganda, safeguarding chimpanzees against the scourge of snaring

Alex Dudley 20 Oct 2020

‘Rafiki’s trust was betrayed’: Q&A with conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jun 2020
Mature desert locust. Image by Obi Anyadike/The New Humanitarian

Changing climate creates ideal conditions for devastating locust swarms

Gilbert Nakweya 4 Jun 2020
Mountain gorilla in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

For great apes at risk of infection, COVID-19 is also an economic threat

Heather Richardson 13 Apr 2020
...probably a Natal dwarf puddle frog in the Gambia. Image by Thomas Brown via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA-2.0)

The frog that wasn’t there: Survey shines a light on Uganda’s amphibians

Fredrick Mugira 11 Apr 2020

National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Mar 2020

Answers in excrement: Fecal analysis yields insight about wild primates

Chia-Yi Hou 29 Jan 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020
Grey Crowned Cranes. Image by Fredrick Mugira for Mongabay.

Community conservation agreements a lifeline for Uganda’s grey crowned cranes

Fredrick Mugira 24 Dec 2019

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019
Murchison Falls. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In a flip-flop, Uganda says it’ll allow a study for a dam at Murchison Falls

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2019

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019
Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019

Tool innovation shows cultural evolution at work among chimpanzees

Nina Finley 12 Feb 2019

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