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Canoes stationed by Bountiya, a fishmeal industrial zone in Nouadhibou, with industrial purse seiners, including the Turkish-flagged Cinar Kardesler.

Mauritania’s fishmeal fever ends as government tightens regulation

Josef Skrdlik, OIiver Dunn 13 Jan 2026

One year on, TGBS benchmark shows how to restore forests for biodiversity

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Jan 2026
Product of the women's keeping initiative. Photo credit: Felipe Rodriguez

Conservation’s unfinished business

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2026
Cathy Kuttle drive slowly through the Cape Town suburb of Noordhoek on a rainy winter evening.

Helping Cape Town’s toads cross the road: Interview with Andrew Turner

Barry Christianson 8 Jan 2026
Foothills of the Atewa forest range, one of several ecologically sensitive areas where mining permits have been issued. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana repeals legislation that opened forest reserves to mining

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 8 Jan 2026
An eastern chimpanzee in Uganda. Image by Nik Borrow via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Chimpanzees and gorillas among most traded African primates, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 7 Jan 2026

An endangered menu (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 6 Jan 2026
Craig. Photo by Cristina Mittermeier

What Craig’s long life reveals about elephant conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2026
Truphena Muthoni hugging a tree for 72 consecutive hours. Image by Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga via X.

From Chipko to Nyeri: The enduring logic of the tree hug

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2026
Myotis nimbaensis, shown here, is a new species of bat named for the mountain range in which it is found, the Nimba Mountains in West Africa. Photo © Kendra Snyder / Bat Conservation International.

Rare bats at risk as iron ore mine advances in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains

Victoria Schneider 30 Dec 2025
A wooden dhow in Kiwla, Tanzania.

Fishing ‘modernization’ leaves Tanzania’s small-scale crews struggling to stay afloat

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2025
Mida Creek, Watamu, Kenya. Image by Delphinidaesy via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

A nuclear power plan exposes Kenya’s deeper land rights issues

Elodie Toto 29 Dec 2025
Banner image: A saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Image by Nick Perla via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Striking ‘red gold’ with saffron farming in Algeria: Interview with Keltouma Adouane

Anna Weekes 29 Dec 2025
Clark Lungren. Courtesy of the Lungren family.

Clark Lungren and the case for compromise in conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2025
Rainforest in Brunei in 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The year in rainforests 2025: Deforestation fell; the risks did not

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2025

Africa mulls gap in climate adaptation finance for agriculture

Aimable Twahirwa 26 Dec 2025
Solar panels in Zimbabwe.

‘The bargain of the century’: An economist’s vision for expanding clean energy access in Africa

John Cannon 26 Dec 2025
Truphena Muthoni hugging a tree for 72 consecutive hours. Image by Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga via X.

Environmentalist hugs tree for 72 hours for Kenya’s native forests

Shanna Hanbury 25 Dec 2025
William Bond. Photo courtesy of the University of Cape Town.

William Bond, grasslands researcher who reminded conservation that context matters, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2025
Baboons near Cape Town. Image courtesy of Green Group Simonstown.

Cape Town’s new plan for baboons: Fence, capture and possibly euthanize

Bobby Bascomb 24 Dec 2025
Community members plant red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules in Hanging Site as part of a restoration effort.

Huge ‘blue carbon’ offsetting project takes root in the mangroves of Sierra Leone

Edward Carver, Mohamed Fofanah 23 Dec 2025
Neddy Mulimo in the field. Image courtesy of Giraffe Creatives Portraits.

Neddy Mulimo treated ranger welfare as conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2025
A woman working on a landscape restoration project in Abijata-Shalla National Park, Ethiopia. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Ethiopian youth groups restore Rift valley lake & livelihoods

Solomon Yimer 22 Dec 2025
An Indigenous Mbuti hunting group inside Okapi National Reserve. Photo ©️ Brent Stirton/Getty Images.jpg

Protected areas in Africa are vital but local perceptions vary (commentary)

Heidi Kretser, Diane Detoeuf, Michelle Wieland, Jessica L’Roe 19 Dec 2025
Eastern tree hyrax in Pare mountains. Image courtesy of Hanna Rosti.

Tanzania’s tree-climbing hyraxes have adapted to life without trees

Ryan Truscott 19 Dec 2025
A bull elephant strolls past a fenced rural homestead in Namibia that is on high alert. Risk of confrontation between elephant and people is high if people don't know how to handle the situation safely. Image courtesy of Abi Best.

How Southern African farmers & elephants can both adapt to coexist

Ryan Truscott 19 Dec 2025
Gorongosa National Park team member presenting how they visualize wildlife, personnel, and other activity across the landscape on EarthRanger. Photo Credit: Gorongosa National Park.

Tech alone won’t stop poaching, but it’s changing how rangers work

Daniella Garcia Almeida 19 Dec 2025
Journey by pirogue for members of the Baliga

Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor

Elodie Toto 18 Dec 2025
A Southern giraffe in Africa.

New study splits giraffe experts on future wild captures for zoos

Shradha Triveni 18 Dec 2025
22-year-old environmentalist Truphena Muthoni, when she started her 72-hour tree hugging challenge in Kenya’s Nyeri County, on the foot of Mount Kenya. The local county governor Dr Mutahi Kahiga (second right) witnessed the start of the challenge that ended on December 11, 2025. Photo: Mutahi Kahiga X

Kenyan woman hugs tree for 72 hours in protest against loss of beloved trees

Lynet Otieno 18 Dec 2025
Community members gather as a tagged Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is prepared for release in the Cambodian stretch of the Mekong River.

Earth’s freshwater fish face harsh new climate challenges, researchers warn

Stefan Lovgren 17 Dec 2025

Mining controversies: The hidden toll of green energy

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 17 Dec 2025

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