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Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2018

East Africa’s mountain gorilla population now numbers more than 1,000

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2018

To protect the Congolese peatlands, protect local land rights (commentary)

Bart Crezee 4 Jun 2018
Rainforest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Save intact forests for humanity’s sake, urge experts

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

John Cannon 8 Mar 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017
Geographer Tom Smith talks with the Baka in Somalomo village in South Cameroon. Photo by: Trevon Fuller.

Waning plantain yields in rural Cameroon hurt college attendance

Anna Katrina Hunter 7 Dec 2017

Supporting conservation by playing a game? Seriously? (commentary)

Claude Garcia 26 Oct 2017

New research suggests tropical forests are now a net source of carbon emissions

Mike Gaworecki 28 Sep 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

African great ape bushmeat crisis intensifies; few solutions in sight

Sharon Guynup 7 Jul 2017

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Claire Salisbury 12 Jun 2017

New carbon map will help protect the DRC’s rainforests

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jun 2017
Giraffes roam in Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

DRC’s Garamba National Park: The last giraffes of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 9 May 2017

Conservation lessons from the bonobos

Kim Harrisberg 1 May 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Meet the winners of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Women could be a key to great ape conservation in the Congo

Tina Deines 21 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

New species of wild ginger discovered in DR Congo

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Mar 2017
Ewing Lopongo, conservationist with the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), in charge of the Monkoto sector of the Salonga National Park, in Monkoto, Tshuapa, DRC, October 2016. Photo by Leonora Baumann for Mongabay.

The people of DRC’s forests

Etienne Maury 21 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

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