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Tanoh Jallah, a resident of one of the towns in the IFC complaint, said all the good farmland was taken by Salala.

Community complaints in limbo as Socfin cuts ties with Earthworm Foundation

Ashoka Mukpo, Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026
Destroyed trees inside the Apamprama reserve. Image by Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda.

Successful campaign proves Ghana’s forests are worth more than gold (commentary)

Daryl Bosu 5 Feb 2026
Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

A ‘new baseline’: Study captures accelerating sea-level rise in Africa

Edward Carver 30 Jan 2026
A woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 2026
Francis Hallé. Photo by Thomas Samson / AFP

Francis Hallé, the botanist who took a raft into the rainforest canopy

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jan 2026
A Bangka slow loris (Nycticebus bancanus).

For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim

Mino Rakotovao 20 Jan 2026
Loading a barge with iron ore from Simandou. Image by Paul Kagame via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hopes and fears as Guinea exports iron ore from Simandou mines

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2026
Foothills of the Atewa forest range, one of several ecologically sensitive areas where mining permits have been issued. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana repeals legislation that opened forest reserves to mining

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 8 Jan 2026
Myotis nimbaensis, shown here, is a new species of bat named for the mountain range in which it is found, the Nimba Mountains in West Africa. Photo © Kendra Snyder / Bat Conservation International.

Rare bats at risk as iron ore mine advances in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains

Victoria Schneider 30 Dec 2025
Clark Lungren. Courtesy of the Lungren family.

Clark Lungren and the case for compromise in conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2025
Community members plant red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules in Hanging Site as part of a restoration effort.

Huge ‘blue carbon’ offsetting project takes root in the mangroves of Sierra Leone

Edward Carver, Mohamed Fofanah 23 Dec 2025

West and Central Africa tackle coastal erosion

Adrienne Engono, Carolle Ahodekon, Charles Kolou, Christophe Assogba, Roland Klohi, Rosie Pioth 16 Dec 2025
Artisanal fishers pull in a fishing net.

Artisanal fishers in Liberia question benefits of new tracking devices from government

Edward Blamo 15 Dec 2025
Women and children return from their farmlands after the day's work in northcentral Nigeria.

Banned for years, dangerous pesticides persist in Nigerian farming

Samuel Ogunsona 12 Dec 2025
Mangroves within the Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve.

As fish catches fall and seas rise, Douala’s residents join efforts to restore mangroves

Ngala Chimtom 11 Dec 2025
Forest elephants

Wildlife and communities bear the cost as Simandou rail corridor advances across Guinea

Younoussa Naby Sylla 11 Dec 2025
A child at work collecting e-waste in the Agbogbloshie dump in Ghana.

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 3 Dec 2025

West Africa’s oceans get $68 million lifeline amid fisheries decline

Elodie Toto 12 Nov 2025
Thomas J.K.L. Koroma II, paramount chief of Sitta Chiefdom, signs the revenue-sharing carbon agreement. Image courtesy of Namati.

Sierra Leone communities sign carbon agreement based on carbon justice principles

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2025
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

‘Not good’: Ocean losing its greenness, threatening food webs

Edward Carver 10 Nov 2025
Morocco’s Noor-Ouarzazate Solar power complex. Image by Michael Taylor/IRENA via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

African summit seeks clean energy future to combat climate change impacts

Christophe Assogba, Modeste Dossou 10 Nov 2025

Study finds deforestation fuels West Africa’s water crisis

David Akana 7 Nov 2025
Logging truck leaves the forest in Ghana. Image courtesy of Fern.

As Ghana ships first ‘gold standard’ timber to EU, questions about FLEGT’s future remain (commentary)

Fred Pearce 3 Nov 2025
A shepherd watches livestock near Khi Solar One, a solar thermal plant that converts the sun's light energy into electricity, outside Upington, South Africa. Solar offers vast untapped potential in Africa. Image by AP Photo/Themba Hadebe.

At COP30, Africa can lead the way to a sustainable future — but will it? (commentary)

Samuel Ogunsona 3 Nov 2025
A pangolin.

Nigeria passes tough new wildlife law; enforcement doubts remain

Valentine Benjamin 31 Oct 2025
Hagar Kudzordi Widow of Samuel Abayateye, looks at photos of her deceased husband, hoping to get answers. Image by Gideon Anku

A fisheries observer disappeared at sea. His family still waits for answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025
Missing fisheries observer Samuel Abayateye.

Two years later, no closure for family of missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 29 Oct 2025
Tree seedlings at a nursery set up in the village of Koyli Alpha to support the Great Green Wall initiative in Senegal © Benedicte Kurzen/NOOR for FAO

Senegal’s great green wall progress falters amid unfulfilled pledges: Study

Yannick Kenné 28 Oct 2025
Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025
A young female leopard photographed at night in Niokolo Koba National Park, Senegal. Panthera/Senegal DPN

West Africa’s leopards now officially endangered after 50% population crash

Elodie Toto 17 Oct 2025
Illoulofin Solar Power Station

Benin puts solar power at the heart of its energy policy

Didier Hubert Madafimè 16 Oct 2025
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 15 Oct 2025

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