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Chimpanzees in in Cantanhez National Park in southern Guinea-Bissau eating a fermented African breadfruit. Image by Bowland et al., 2025 (CC BY 4.0).

Chimpanzees filmed sharing alcoholic fruits for the first time

Shreya Dasgupta 9 May 2025
Market in Treicheville, Abidjan, 2017.

In Côte d’Ivoire a changing climate hits farmers and markets alike

Gael Zozoro 9 May 2025

Dredging and pollution threaten fishing in the Niger River

Mariam Sanogo 8 May 2025
A western lowland gorilla in Cameroon.

In Cameroon’s forgotten forests, gorillas and chimps hang on

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2025

Hybrid mapping method key to EUDR cocoa compliance, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 6 May 2025

Warming seas and illegal trawlers threaten West Africa’s fishing future, study warns

Victoria Schneider 6 May 2025
Cacao farmers in the Soubré region, southwestern Cote d’ivoire. Image by Gaël Zozoro for Mongabay.

Côte d’Ivoire cacao farmers struggle as climate havoc devastates crops

Gael Zozoro 28 Apr 2025
Hooded vulture, Gambia 2017. Image by Pete Richman via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In West Africa, hooded vultures vanish as abattoirs modernize

Ryan Truscott 24 Apr 2025
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Africa’s growing cities are endangering birdlife (commentary)

Bello Adamu Danmallam 16 Apr 2025
Nigerian authorities with pangolin scales seized in Lagos in April. Image courtesy of Nigeria Customs Service.

Nigerian authorities seize nearly 4 tons of pangolin scales, arrest five suspects

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2025
Corporations have devastated the livelihoods of fishing communities like Odimodi, by spilling crude oil, discharging toxic effluents, and gas flaring. Image via the Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia (analysis)

Daniela Sepulveda, Angélica Arellano 9 Apr 2025
A pangolin. Image by Adam Tusk via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Nigerian officials arrest Chinese pangolin trafficking ‘kingpin’

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Apr 2025
Roots and nodules of a lab-grown yam plant. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele / IITA.

Farmers turn to living ‘yam sticks’ to grow their crop and spare the forest

Mark Hillsdon 3 Apr 2025
The Bioko Drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), an endangered primate endemic to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, is highly valued for its taste, making it the most expensive wild meat on the market. Image by Ian Nichols.

An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade

Spoorthy Raman 2 Apr 2025
The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) is considered one of the most threatened primate species on the planet. Image by Julie Langford via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mongabay investigation finds gorilla trade more widespread than previously thought

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2025
Tiwai Honey Initiative product picture. Image © Ezekiel Kargbo for The Iris Project.

How a young beekeeper’s initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 31 Mar 2025
Keith Davis, an American fisheries observer, disappeared on a Taiwanese-owned, Panamanian-flagged vessel in 2015. Image courtesy of Mark Benjamin.

‘Fatal Watch’: Interview with documentary makers on fisheries observer deaths

Edward Carver 20 Mar 2025
Fishers in Ghana carry their nets on the beach.

USAID funding cuts jeopardize creation of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2025
Fishermen returning from their fishing trip in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Image by Elodie Toto/Mongabay.

Gas leak from BP platform off West Africa worries fishermen, environmentalists

Elodie Toto 13 Mar 2025
Image of a male western chimpanzee

When a chimp community lost its males, it also lost part of its love language

Ryan Truscott 11 Mar 2025
Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Breast milk contamination exposes Africa’s ‘forever chemicals’ problem

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Mar 2025
Shea butter production process near Chiana, Kassena Nankana District, Ghana. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Women in Ghana plant ‘diversion’ trees to protect shea trees and their livelihoods

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Mar 2025
Fishermen in Marshall, Liberia, prepare nets for fishing. Image by Edward Blamo for Mongabay.

Liberia to start industrial shrimp fishing, worrying artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 5 Mar 2025
A flooded field in Lake Province, Chad, in October 2024. The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) is working with farmers groups as part of their three year "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" project. Image courtesy of Marie Renaux/LWF

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025

Pollinator decline & climate change threaten chocolate production

Bobby Bascomb 27 Feb 2025
Western lowland gorilla.

‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Orji Sunday 27 Feb 2025
Image of a critically endangered western chimpanzee. Image by Christoph Wurbel via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Guinea greenlights gold mine in habitat of critically endangered chimpanzees

Victoria Schneider 26 Feb 2025
Stephen Kenduiwo holds a round green seed up to the camera. Image by Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Seeds of 19 African tree species added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Anne Nzouankeu 25 Feb 2025

First Niger Delta red colobus monkey videos reflect community conservation success

Spoorthy Raman 25 Feb 2025
Liberia is home to three species of pangolin, which are also referred to scaly anteaters. This tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) is listed as Endangered while the other two - the giant pangolin (Manis gigantea) and long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla) - are listed as Vulnerable. Image by Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How ‘country palm’ could help pave the way toward a sustainable palm oil future in Liberia

Louise Hunt 18 Feb 2025

Chimps remember, for years, the location of ant nests that provide food

Charles Mpaka 3 Feb 2025
In September, Moo Deng went viral, becoming famous for her playful, no-holds-barred attitude.

Has the Moo Deng craze helped wild pygmy hippos at all? (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2025

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