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‘We want our land back’: Liberian communities speak out about big palm oil

Sara Jerving 10 Aug 2015

Feline Unseen: The African Golden Cat

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2015

Cleaning up cacao: making the chocolate business more sustainable

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2015

Meager post-Ebola harvests worsen food insecurity in West Africa

Lois Parshley 25 Jun 2015

Private sector innovations reduce food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 1 Jun 2015

Together we stand: A policy approach to reducing food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 28 May 2015

Flag states can be held liable for violations of fishing vessels abroad, international tribunal rules

Melati Kaye 19 May 2015

Satellite images show deforestation on fringes of UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cameroon

John Cannon 14 May 2015

Declining palm oil prices: Good news and bad news for smallholders

Jaboury Ghazoul 16 Mar 2015

Local land rights may be in danger from push for palm oil in Liberia

John Cannon 12 Mar 2015

Scandal and intrigue overshadow environment at the Simandou mine in Guinea

Daniel Stiles - Mongabay Special Reporting Assignment Fellow 20 Jan 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Deforestation taking toll on nesting birds in Cameroon

Ariel Mark 17 Dec 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Can it be stopped? Ghana’s forests ‘could completely disappear in less than 25 years’

Judy Ogutu 25 Aug 2014

Don’t eat or touch bat bushmeat amid worsening Ebola outbreak, UN warns

Jeremy Hance 29 Jul 2014

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

John Cannon 25 Jun 2014

Greenpeace accuses controversial palm oil company and Cameroon government of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

How locals and conservationists saved the elephants of Mali amidst conflict and poverty

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Over 9,000 primates killed for single bushmeat market in West Africa every year

Ariel Mark 24 Mar 2014

Frog creates chemical invisibility cloak to confuse aggressive ants

Andrew Mann 14 Mar 2014

Scientists uncover new crocodile in Africa

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2014

Honey badgers and more: camera traps reveal wealth of small carnivores in Gabon (photos)

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2013

African manatee hanging on in Cameroon

Adam Andrus 30 Sep 2013

Smuggler who illegally traded 500 chimps gets one year in prison

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2013

NGO hits out at study for downplaying logging threat in Congo rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2013

Hunting, logging could threaten long-term health of Congo forests by wiping out key animals

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2013

Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Bulk of Ghana timber exports may be illegal

Mongabay.com 30 May 2013

Nearly a million people face food crisis in Niger

Jeremy Hance 13 May 2013

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