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‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

Warming climate means scientists may have overcounted bonobos, study says

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

New survey nearly doubles Grauer’s gorilla population, but threats remain

Ed Holt 22 Jun 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Report: WWF knew about rights abuses by park rangers, but didn’t respond effectively

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Dec 2020
A Grauer's Gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Victoria Schneider 11 Nov 2020
Elephant, Lopé National Park, Gabon. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s rainforest mega-gardeners go hungry

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams 29 Oct 2020

Less than half of world’s humid tropical forests have high ecological integrity: Study

Claire Asher 22 Sep 2020

Great ape ‘forest gardeners of Africa’ benefit from conservation victory

Mike Gaworecki 16 Sep 2020

Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’

James Fair 7 Aug 2020
A calf attempts to sneak its trunk into a mineral pit that mom is drinking from. Protest calls are often heard from calves during these behavioral contexts, as mom sometimes pushes them away and they in turn express their displeasure with a little yell. Photo © Ana Verahrami, Elephant Listening Project.

Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 2020
ICCN ranger with a gorilla in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image courtesy Nelis Wolmarans.

Twelve rangers killed in latest Virunga Park incident

Fred Kockott 25 Apr 2020

Images from a dropped phone reveal the ugly truth behind bonobo trafficking

Mireya Mayor 23 Apr 2020
Mountain gorilla in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

For great apes at risk of infection, COVID-19 is also an economic threat

Heather Richardson 13 Apr 2020

National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Mar 2020
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Palm oil giant Olam under scrutiny again over Gabon plantations

James Fair 25 Mar 2020

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Asher Elbein 21 Feb 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Mongabay’s top 5 forests stories of 2019 (so far) for International Forests Day

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Tanja Venisnik 21 Feb 2019

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