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Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify rare, hard-to-find mammals

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2013

Lion population falls 68 percent in 50 years

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainforest for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Cute animal picture of the day: baby pygmy hippo

Jeremy Hance 22 Oct 2012

40% of Liberia’s forests granted for logging

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2012

Cute animal pictures of the day: gorilla toddler saved from illegal pet trade

Jeremy Hance 20 Aug 2012

As U.S. sees record heat, extreme weather pummels 4 continents

Jeremy Hance 10 Jul 2012

Tracking elephants in Cameroon to mitigate conflict with locals

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2012

Gabon torches their ivory stock as poachers attack okapi reserve

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2012

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

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