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Traditional belief in mythical beasts help protect forests

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2012

Alarm rising over food crisis in Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2012

Ten African nations pledge to transform their economies to take nature into account

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2012

The vanishing Niger River imperils tourism and livelihoods in the desert

Linda Leila Diatta 4 Jun 2012

‘The real Hunger Games’: a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2012

First camera trap video of world’s rarest gorilla includes shocking charge

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2012

High-tech hell: new documentary brings Africa’s e-waste slum to life

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2012

15 million facing food shortages in Africa’s Sahel region

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2012

Animal picture of the day: a baby bongo

Jeremy Hance 22 Mar 2012

Scientists say massive palm oil plantation will “cut the heart out” of Cameroon’s rainforest

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2012

New reports from inside Cameroon confirm grisly mass killing of elephants (warning: graphic photos)

Christina M. Russo 14 Mar 2012

Without data, fate of great apes unknown

Ingrid Schulze 12 Mar 2012

Niger creates desert park bigger than Hungary

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Six nations, including U.S., set up climate initiative to target short-term greenhouse gases

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2012

Elephant massacre in Cameroon (warning: graphic photo)

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2012

The camera trap revolution: how a simple device is shaping research and conservation worldwide

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2012

Mysterious pygmy hippo filmed in Liberia

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Droughts could push parts of Africa back into famine

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Locals key to saving primate-rich wetlands in Cote D’Ivoire

Jeremy Hance 12 Dec 2011

Sierra Leone creates rainforest park

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2011

Saving Ghana’s vanishing frogs

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2011

Illuminating Africa’s most obscure cat

Jeremy Hance 18 Oct 2011

U.S. Lacey Act, programs in Rwanda and Gambia, awarded for forest protection

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2011

Converting rainforest to cropland in Africa reduces rainfall

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2011

Children on the frontlines: the e-waste epidemic in Africa

Karimeh Moukaddem 9 Sep 2011

Controversial study finds intensive farming partnered with strict protected areas is best for biodiversity

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2011

One of world’s rarest cats caught on video for the first time

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2011

Shell spills over 50,000 gallons of oil off Scotland

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2011

Picture of the day: African costume you can’t miss

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2011

Oil horror in Nigeria: 30 years, one billion dollars to clean-up

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2011

Saving (and studying) one of Nigeria’s last montane forests

Jeremy Hance 26 Jul 2011

Conservationists seek $15M for rarest chimp

Mongabay.com 27 Jun 2011

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