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Chepsat sorting tomatoes to load on a vehicle for ferrying to the market in Marigat. Image by Gilbert Nakweya for Mongabay.

Permaculture promises peace, food, increased equality in Kenyan county

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Sep 2025
Murchison Falls is meant to be protected, yet faces threats from oil activity. Image courtesy of Earth Insight.

Satellite images reveal oil project surge in Ugandan park and wetland

Elodie Toto 17 Sep 2025

Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi

Liz Kimbrough 17 Sep 2025

From shamba to PELIS: Kenyan farmers derive livelihoods from government timber plantations

Isaiah Esipisu 17 Sep 2025
Reticulated giraffes in East Africa.

How AI helps conservationists better understand and protect giraffes

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Sep 2025
Joseph Lijodi, a tree nursery owner, with one of his Prunus african seedlings.

Kenya’s PELIS trades biodiversity for livelihoods and tree cover gains

Isaiah Esipisu 9 Sep 2025
A black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata), an endangered species of ruffed lemur.

Collaboration key to lemur survival: Interview with primatologist Jonah Ratsimbazafy

Mino Rakotovao 8 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025
Women planting mangroves in Uyombo.

‘It doesn’t make sense’: Marine biologist on Kenya’s proposed nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 29 Aug 2025
In the dump, men, women and children are looking for plastic and clothes that they can then sell. The people who work on the dump often wear no protection. It is estimated that 3,000 households make a living from this recycling.

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2025
After separating the edible pulp, the leftover enset fibers are collected and used to make durable household items like ropes, mats and baskets. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Ethiopian initiatives try to mainstream traditional and resilient enset crop in diets

Solomon Yimer 20 Aug 2025
View of central Kampala.

From counting trees to enhancing climate resiliency, Kampala focuses on its forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025
Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua at work. Image from his social media.

Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, water bearer to Tsavo’s wild, died June 18, 2024, aged 51

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2025
Banner image of a white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus), which is among the Nuer peoples’ gaatkuoth birds (meaning “children of god”). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What we can learn from the Nuer people and their sacred birds

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2025
A fisher “foot fishing” on the reef flat of Anjouan at low tide.

Encouraging signs from a no-fishing zone in Comoros could inspire others

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Aug 2025
A male Walia ibex in Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Paul Scholte.

Ethiopia’s iconic Walia ibex faces extinction once again

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Aug 2025

Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC

Elodie Toto, Latoya Abulu 31 Jul 2025
A forest gardener waters vegetables in his forest garden in Kaffrine, Senegal.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2025
Black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina). Image by Saverio Savio via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

The sacred humans-bird connection in Ethiopia’s wetlands: Interview with Abebayehu Aticho

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 25 Jul 2025
Yunhua Lin, left, at the court in Malawi in 2021. Image courtesy of EIA.

‘Shock and alarm’ as Malawi pardons wildlife trafficker Lin Yunhua

Madalitso Wills Kateta 16 Jul 2025
Riding through a locust swarm in Lekiji, Samburu County, Kenya.

Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa

Stephanie Achieng’ 3 Jul 2025
Emmanuel Gona, a fisherman and community scout from Muyu wa Kae village in Marereni, believes that conserving and restoring mangrove ecosystems is key to boosting fish populations.

A Kenya marine biodiversity credit program restores mangroves — and livelihoods

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 1 Jul 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025
A family of mountain gorillas resting together, in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Resting in physical contact is an indicator of close social relationships and tolerance in gorillas. Image credit: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Friendship benefits male and female mountain gorillas differently, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 2025
Rashid Mohamed Rashid

What happens to artisanal fishers when a deep-sea fishing port comes to town?

Anthony Langat 27 Jun 2025
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Balancing wildlife and human needs at Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth park

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2025
Every humphead wrasse has unique facial markings with distinctive black lines around the eyes and squiggly patterns on the face.

Vanishing giants: The Indian Ocean’s biggest fish need saving (commentary)

Melita Samoilys 25 Jun 2025

As a fishing port rises in Kenya, locals see threats to sea life, livelihoods

Anthony Langat 23 Jun 2025
Woman farming seaweed at Pemba Island, Tanzania

Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2025
Waziri Mpogo harvests sea cucumbers at his ranch in Tanzania's Mafia Island. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Tanzania’s Mafia Island eyes sea cucumber farming to prevent extinction

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2025
Udzungwa endemic Sanje mangabey. Image courtesy Trevor Jones.

Protecting Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains means putting communities at the center of conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2025
Banner image of a desert locust by Joachim Frische via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA3.0).

As climate change worsens global locust crisis, researchers offer solutions 


Kristine Sabillo 13 Jun 2025

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