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Getting SMART about Wildlife Crime

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

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

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

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

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Scientists urge greater enforcement of wildlife laws in Africa

‘Chaos’ in Congo’s logging sector

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

Ranger killed by poachers in park known for grisly elephant slaughters

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

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

Russia and Canada lead the world in forest loss in 2013

Elephant poaching rate unchanged – and still devastating

DRC mulls changing Virunga’s boundaries for oil

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Camera traps capture rare footage of wild bonobos (video)

Google Earth used to identify environmentally important termite mounds

Mapping mistake leaves wildlife at risk

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

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

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

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

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

Looming mining ‘tsunami’ set to take Africa by storm

How did Ebola Zaïre Get to Guinea?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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