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Getting SMART about Wildlife Crime

Julia John 2 Mar 2016

A new plan to pull the “forest giraffe” back from the brink of extinction

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Indigenous leaders at COP21: 20 percent of tropical forest carbon is sitting on Indigenous land

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2015

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2015

‘Chaos’ in Congo’s logging sector

John Cannon 8 Jul 2015

World’s critical habitats lost Connecticut-size area of forest in a decade

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2015

Ranger killed by poachers in park known for grisly elephant slaughters

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2015

New group hopes to raise global profile of the peace-loving bonobo

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2015

Condition of tropical forests ‘worsening’, could become ‘critical’

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2015

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Apr 2015

Elephant poaching rate unchanged – and still devastating

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2015

DRC mulls changing Virunga’s boundaries for oil

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Camera traps capture rare footage of wild bonobos (video)

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2014

Google Earth used to identify environmentally important termite mounds

Shayna Wilson 17 Dec 2014

Mapping mistake leaves wildlife at risk

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Nov 2014

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

Climate change to boost farmland, diminish harvests, says new study

John Cannon 29 Sep 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Looming mining ‘tsunami’ set to take Africa by storm

John Cannon 20 Aug 2014

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 5 Aug 2014

Conservation controversy: are bonobos protected in the right ways and in the right places?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jul 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

Setting the stage: theater troupe revives tradition to promote conservation in DRC

Anna Ikarashi 22 Jul 2014

Is there hope for bonobos? Researchers, NGOs, gov’t officials, local communities band together to save iconic ape (Part III)

Fidelis Zvomuya 18 Jul 2014

Poaching, fires, farming pervade: protecting bonobos ‘an enormous challenge’ (Part II)

Fidelis Zvomuya 17 Jul 2014

Will the last ape found be the first to go? Bonobos’ biggest refuge under threat (Part I)

Fidelis Zvomuya 16 Jul 2014

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