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A black-footed cat.

‘Anthill tiger’: Putting one of Africa’s rarest wildcats on the radar

Petro Kotzé 18 May 2023

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023
Aerial view of a massive pile of black coal looming over a small pool and scattered trees near Carolina, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image courtesy Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Authority.

South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”

Anna Majavu 26 Apr 2023
A herd of elephants near the Linyanti River in northern Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Conserve wildlands in southern Africa by protecting Indigenous rights (commentary)

Daniel Kaul 21 Apr 2023

Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)

Izzy Sasada 19 Apr 2023
Rhino tracker with their back to the camera in the foreground, looking at an alert black rhino in the middle ground. Image by Ultimate Safaris.

Namibian community protects its rhinos from poaching but could lose them to mining

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023

Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Majavu 28 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022
Front-end loader in a raw clearing in forests in Sudcam's concession near Cameroon's Dja Faunal Reserve. Image courtesy Nchemty Metimi Ozongashu / Greenpeace.

Forests & Finance: Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2022
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022
Zebras in Okavango Delta.

Protecting the peatlands and woodlands in Angola’s ‘source of life’

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2022
A gorilla at the habituation project in Campo Ma'an National Park. Image courtesy Campo Ma'an National Park via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Forests & Finance: From logging in Cameroon to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Majavu 24 Oct 2022
Okapis (Okapia johnstoni) are related to giraffes. Image in the public domain.

Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Forests & Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022
Goat herders along a road in Muzarabani

Australian oil and gas firm Invictus awarded carbon offset project in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022

Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2022
A man in a boat in Bodo

Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2022
Elephants in Zimbabwe.

As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws

Ryan Truscott 12 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
School of Wildlife Conservation students in the field. Photo courtesy of ALU

It’s time to center African people in the conservation agenda (commentary)

Gail Thomson 24 Aug 2022
A water reservoir near Cape Town, South Africa.

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Anna Majavu 11 Aug 2022
A white rhino browsing grass. Image by Brook Ward via Flickr (CC BY-NC-2.0)

Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher

Estacio Valoi 1 Aug 2022
Elephants in iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Beyond bored apes: Blockchain polarizes wildlife conservation community

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jul 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022

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