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A man in a boat in Bodo

Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2022
A mona monkey (Cercopithecus mona), one of the many species that inhabit Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve. Image by AlexisENVN via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 20 Sep 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive species

Orji Sunday 22 Aug 2022
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Let it grow: Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo

Erik Hoffner 17 Aug 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022

Where do the guitarfish go? Scientists and fishers team up to find out

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Jul 2022
A rubber farmer taps a rubber tree

Rubber used by leading European tire makers linked to forest loss in Africa: Report

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jul 2022
A chimpanzee in the Congo rainforests

Data from droppings: Researchers draw up a genetic ID map for chimps

Charles Mpaka 1 Jul 2022
The study found that 83 species of wild birds from West Africa were being traded online.

Study shines light, and raises alarm, over online trade of West African birds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2022
A handful of peanuts.

Book Review: ‘Slaves for Peanuts’ gets to the troubling roots of a beloved snack

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Jun 2022
Salatou Sambou

A tale of successes and new challenges in Senegal: Q&A with ICCA coordinator Salatou Sambou

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jun 2022
Fishing in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch

Ashoka Mukpo 24 May 2022
West African slender-snouted crocodile, Tano River basin, Ghana. Image courtesy Threatened Species Conservation Alliance

Slender-snouted crocodile savior: Q&A with Whitley Award winner Emmanuel Amoah

Mohamed Fofanah 13 May 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022

Saving Nigeria’s gorillas was also meant to help communities. It hasn’t (analysis).

Orji Sunday 31 Mar 2022
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Mar 2022
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

In West and Central Africa, palm oil investors buckle under community pressure

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2022
A view of former fishing village Fuveme from Havui. Image by Erica Ayisi for Mongabay.

As rising seas destroy Ghana’s coastal communities, researchers warn against a seawall-only solution

Erica Ayisi 4 Mar 2022

Latest Nigeria oil spill highlights ‘wretched’ state of the industry

Mongabay 24 Feb 2022

Hippos, manatees, and how the sounds of African wildlife aid their conservation

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2022

Sierra Leone lawsuit against diamond mine runs up against corporate opacity

Emma Black 17 Feb 2022
Rotten cacao pod. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why farmers, not industry, must decide the future of cocoa (commentary)

Sam Mawutor 15 Feb 2022

Is a European proposal on imported deforestation too punitive? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 9 Feb 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022

Guinea-Bissau turtle hatchery addresses unusual problem of too many eggs

Ricci Shryock 12 Jan 2022
Colombia

Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2022

‘I feel obligated to protect them’: A lifelong love affair with Guinea-Bissau’s turtles

Ricci Shryock 11 Jan 2022

Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber

Orji Sunday 31 Dec 2021

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021

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