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Africa’s vanishing wild: mammal populations cut in half

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2011

95% of Liberia’s elephants killed by poachers

Jeremy Hance 24 Jan 2011

Hadapi Moratorium dan Kritik di Indonesia, Sinar Mas Cari Kesempatan Baru untuk Minyak Kelapa di Liberia

Indonesia.mongabay.com 27 Sep 2010

Facing moratorium and criticism in Indonesia, Sinar Mas looks to Liberia for new palm oil opportunities

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2010

Meski Menurun, Pembalakan Liar Masih Masalah Besar

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2010

Cameroon says goodbye to cheetahs and African wild dogs

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2010

Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2010

Saving one of West Africa’s last hippo populations

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2010

Inga alley cropping: a sustainable alternative to slash and burn agriculture

Charles Barber 14 Jun 2010

Massive forest carbon scam alleged in Liberia

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2010

Gabon bans log exports

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2010

Cameroon agrees to cut illegal wood out of its supply chain

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2010

Food crisis in Niger occurring “out of the public eye”

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2010

How free trade has devastated Africa’s farmers and poor

Jeremy Hance 15 Feb 2010

Sierra Leone cracks down on illegal logging by banning log exports

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2010

Commercial fish smoking is the “most pervasive” threat to mangrove forests in West Africa

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2009

Pygmy hippo shot and killed in…Australia

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2009

Drought threatens rare desert elephants

Jeremy Hance 21 May 2009

Scientists find world’s largest leatherback sea turtle population in Gabon

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2009

Chimpanzee population plummets 90 percent in supposedly strong region

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2009

Sime Darby signs palm oil deal in Liberia

Mongabay.com 4 May 2009

Environmental campaign blocks palm oil project in Cote d’ Ivoire wetland

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2009

River systems worldwide are losing water due to global warming

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2009

Gabonese environmental activist receives prize for standing up to government, Chinese company

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2009

Droughts lasting centuries in West Africa are commonplace

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2009

Dedicated rock-throwing chimp proves longterm planning

Jeremy Hance 10 Mar 2009

All about giraffes: an interview with a giraffe expert

Jeremy Hance 9 Mar 2009

Photos: Rarest cheetah photographed for the first time

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2009

Cameroon moves to protect rarest gorilla

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2008

Côte d'Ivoire's endangered chimp population falls 99% since 1960

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2008

11 species of monkeys discovered in West African biodiversity hotspot

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

New rainforest sanctuary in Cameroon already at risk from plantations, hunting

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2008

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