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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

DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

John Cannon 10 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business

Janaki Lenin 30 Jun 2014

What does SOCO’s withdrawal really mean for the future of Virunga National Park?

Analysis Daniel Stiles 17 Jun 2014

Grenades, helicopters, and scooping out brains: poachers decimate elephant population in park

Jeremy Hance 15 Jun 2014

Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park after sustained campaign by WWF

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

DRC seeks $1B to save its rainforest

Mongabay.com 22 May 2014

Hope in the Heart of Darkness: huge population of chimpanzees discovered in the DRC

Julian Moll-rocek 20 May 2014

Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Paul Sutherland 19 May 2014

Okapi-killing warlord shot dead in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2014

Nearly 90 percent of logging in the DRC is illegal

Jeremy Hance 8 Apr 2014

Europe not doing enough to stop illegal logging imports says Greenpeace

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2014

Total says it will not drill in any World Heritage Sites

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2014

Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2014

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Bonobos: the Congo Basin’s great gardeners

Christina Pham 11 Dec 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

28 percent of potential bonobo habitat remains suitable

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2013

A year after devastating attack, security returns to the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (photos)

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2013

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