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Africa’s monitored wildlife populations declined 80% since 1970, new report says

David Akana 7 Oct 2026
Reconstruction of the extinct Herugavialis cairensis with the Great Sphinx and pyramids depicted in the background. Artwork by Karim Zanaty.

New crocodile species found fossilized in stone used to build Egypt’s Great Sphinx

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2026
A brown clockfig in South Africa’s Gariep Valley. Image © pietermier via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Rare Southern African succulent listed as critically endangered amid mining threat

Victoria Schneider 5 Oct 2026

How to grow $25K into community-led conservation: Interview with Tanzania’s Mwambao

David Akana 2 Oct 2026
A pride of lions inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Uganda and NGO to co-manage sector of national park home to tree-climbing lions

Ashoka Mukpo 2 Oct 2026
Stéphanie Moussounda, known as Maman Djédjé, a Gabonese traditional practitioner and initiatory mother, president of the Fédération nationale des traditionalistes gabonais (FENATRAG) and second vice-president of COARITRAG, at her temple in Gabon. Image by Molly Helfend for Mongabay.

Gabon, home to the medicinal plant behind ibogaine, wants a fairer share of its global boom

Molly Helfend 1 Oct 2026
Giraffes roam Kenya’s open savannas, part of the rich wildlife that draws visitors and makes ecotourism an important source of revenue for conservation and local communities. Image by Angela Scott.

From ‘community-based’ to ‘community-led conservation’ in Kenya: Interview with Dickson Kaelo

David Akana 1 Oct 2026
Lions (Panthera leo). Image by Julie Larsen © Wildlife Conservation Society.

Turning vulnerable livestock into four-eyed beasts helps protect them in Zimbabwe

Cecil Dzwowa 30 Sep 2026
Children belonging to the Karamojong ethnic group in Karamoja, Uganda, help with household chores.

Uganda pastoralists turn to wild plants as food shortages bite, study finds

Kingsley Charles 29 Sep 2026

Kenyan nuclear project faces international legal challenge over security risks

Elodie Toto 29 Sep 2026
Nubian (formerly Rothschild's) giraffe in Uganda. Image by Julie Larsen ©Wildlife Conservation Society.

In war-torn South Sudan, giraffes retain a surprisingly healthy gene pool

David Brown 29 Sep 2026
Jaco Muller. Image courtesy of the Rhino Momma Project.

Jaco Muller turned his 15-year-old son’s idea into 197 rhino births

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2026

Reintroduced Grauer’s gorilla gives birth in DRC national park, ‘makes us happy’

Elodie Toto 28 Sep 2026
A Malala drift area resident feeding his goats

Farmers in South Africa’s Limpopo face unpredictable rainfall, uncertain futures

Bernard Chiguvare 25 Sep 2026
A Landscape Alliance staffer kneels beside a coppicing stump of a wild loquat tree

Scientists clone Southern Africa’s wild fruit trees as forests disappear

Ryan Truscott 25 Sep 2026

Anthrax suspected in 46 hippo deaths in Zambia amid potential spillover to humans

Victoria Schneider 24 Sep 2026
A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Ugandans plant trees near national park to keep people out of gorillas’ habitat

Associated Press 24 Sep 2026
Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026
A Western lowland gorilla in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Ebola, twins and women-led conservation: Reporting on gorillas for World Gorilla Day

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2026
A Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire.

‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

John Cannon 24 Sep 2026

Floating weeds threaten farming and fishing at Malawi’s Chia Lagoon

Charles Mpaka 23 Sep 2026
GCF and team members observe giraffes in the capture funnel.

First Angolan giraffes return to Bicuar National Park after 25 years

Alex Megerle 23 Sep 2026

World Rhino Day: What does it take to save a species?

Mongabay 22 Sep 2026
Illegal miners at work in the Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana. Image courtesy of A Rocha Ghana.

Illegal mines threaten biodiversity and drinking water in Ghana’s Atewa Forest

Mabel Adorkor Annang 21 Sep 2026
Beginning in the mid-2000s, poachers targeted elephants for their tusks, which were worth hefty sums on the black market. In some countries, including Zambia, governments and conservationists are trying to find new ways to combat poaching — like understanding motivations and trying to provide alternative, legal employment.

‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime

Alex Megerle 19 Sep 2026
African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis).

World’s smallest crocodile in high demand for bushmeat trade in Nigeria

Amir Sadiq 17 Sep 2026
KWD1980, a wild dog from Zambia’s Kafue National Park

‘A good way to die’: Triumph and tragedy among dispersing African wild dogs

Ryan Truscott 16 Sep 2026

Report links fishmeal production to decline in key species for Guinea-Bissau communities

David Brown 15 Sep 2026
Saruni, a male giant ground pangolin

Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins

Pauline Kairu 15 Sep 2026
Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus).

Decline of migratory birds spurs calls for coordinated conservation

Wilson Odhiambo 14 Sep 2026
A pack of endangered African wild dogs moving along a small dirt track in Kafue National Park., Zambia. Image courtesy of Scott Creel.

Longest African mammal movement recorded by Zambian wild dogs

Ryan Truscott 14 Sep 2026

Angolan communities return to seasonal migration amid severe drought

Elodie Toto 11 Sep 2026

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