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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

The real cost of conservation: cheap protection rarely succeeds

Nika Levikov 3 Mar 2014

Scientists uncover new crocodile in Africa

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2014

Rainforest news review for 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2013

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2013

Richest countries spent $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011, eclipsing climate finance by seven times

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2013

Five new, cryptic bats discovered in Senegal

Bobbie Edwards 11 Nov 2013

Palm oil companies ignoring community rights, new study shows

Diana Parker 7 Nov 2013

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

Wildlife drones could revolutionize aerial surveys of animal populations

Jeremy Hance 30 Sep 2013

Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate that can be shot on sight

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2013

Smuggler who illegally traded 500 chimps gets one year in prison

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2013

Illegal marijuana cultivation threatens Nigeria’s forests and chimps

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jul 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

Fertility in Africa could push world population over 11 billion

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 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

New endangered list for ecosystems modeled after ‘Red list’ for species

Mongabay.com 9 May 2013

Top security official in Nigeria blames climate change for worsening insecurity

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2013

Emergency: large number of elephants being poached in the Central African Republic (warning: graphic image)

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2013

China ‘looting’ Africa of its fish

John Vidal 24 Apr 2013

Beautiful striped bat is the “find of a lifetime” (photos)

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

What happened to the elephants of Bouba Ndjida? [warning: graphic photos]

Christina M. Russo 7 Mar 2013

Guide for filing complaints on rule-breaking by palm oil companies published

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2013

Scientists: stop treating population growth as a ‘given’ and empower women

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify rare, hard-to-find mammals

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2013

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