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Satellite images show deforestation on fringes of UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cameroon

John Cannon 14 May 2015

World’s critical habitats lost Connecticut-size area of forest in a decade

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2015

Criticism of GAR and Wilmar African oil palm projects highlight global ‘no-deforestation’ challenges

Greg Norman 16 Apr 2015

Elephant poaching rate unchanged – and still devastating

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2015

Declining palm oil prices: Good news and bad news for smallholders

Jaboury Ghazoul 16 Mar 2015

Local land rights may be in danger from push for palm oil in Liberia

John Cannon 12 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Scientists sound the alarm on African palm oil investment

John Cannon 20 Feb 2015

Selective logging causes long-term changes to forest structure

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Scandal and intrigue overshadow environment at the Simandou mine in Guinea

Daniel Stiles - Mongabay Special Reporting Assignment Fellow 20 Jan 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Greenpeace: zero deforestation pioneer makes progress, but still has work to do

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2014

Deforestation taking toll on nesting birds in Cameroon

Ariel Mark 17 Dec 2014

Nano-tags track baby sea turtles during their first few hours

Leigh Cooper 3 Dec 2014

Developing land without approval of local people ‘a human rights issue of grave concern,’ says new report

Dr Liz Kimbrough 20 Nov 2014

World’s rarest gorilla gets a new protected home

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Norway to pay Liberia to stop deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Sep 2014

Can it be stopped? Ghana’s forests ‘could completely disappear in less than 25 years’

Judy Ogutu 25 Aug 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Don’t eat or touch bat bushmeat amid worsening Ebola outbreak, UN warns

Jeremy Hance 29 Jul 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

Surrounded by deforestation, critically endangered gorillas hang on by a thread

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jul 2014

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

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

John Cannon 25 Jun 2014

Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

Tanya Dimitrova 24 Jun 2014

Greenpeace accuses controversial palm oil company and Cameroon government of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

Deutsche Bank dumps controversial palm oil company

Mongabay.com 27 May 2014

Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

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