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Children on the frontlines: the e-waste epidemic in Africa

Karimeh Moukaddem 9 Sep 2011

Controversial study finds intensive farming partnered with strict protected areas is best for biodiversity

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2011

One of world’s rarest cats caught on video for the first time

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2011

Shell spills over 50,000 gallons of oil off Scotland

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2011

Picture of the day: African costume you can’t miss

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2011

Oil horror in Nigeria: 30 years, one billion dollars to clean-up

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2011

Saving (and studying) one of Nigeria’s last montane forests

Jeremy Hance 26 Jul 2011

Conservationists seek $15M for rarest chimp

Mongabay.com 27 Jun 2011

How do we save Africa’s forests?

Karimeh Moukaddem 19 Jun 2011

Food security in developing world threatened by climate change

Karimeh Moukaddem 6 Jun 2011

Restoring forests: an opportunity for Africa

Commentartnigel Sizer 26 May 2011

Photos: the top ten new species discovered in 2010

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2011

Liberia fights illegal logging through agreement with EU

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2011

Chainsaw Milling: Domestic Unregulated Deforestation Agents or Local Entrepreneurs?

Gabriel Thoumi 10 May 2011

Palm oil lobby attacks World Bank’s new social and environmental safeguards

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2011

Study calls for REDD+ money to boost yields in West Africa using agrochemicals

Mongabay.com 10 Apr 2011

What’s behind the 85% decline of mammals in West Africa’s parks?

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

Alien plants invade Nigerian protected ‘gene bank’

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

Top forest policies recognized

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2011

Nigeria moving forward on REDD to protect last remaining forests

Emilie Filou 19 Feb 2011

‘Land grab’ fears in Africa legitimate

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2011

Africa’s vanishing wild: mammal populations cut in half

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2011

95% of Liberia’s elephants killed by poachers

Jeremy Hance 24 Jan 2011

Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

Loss of old growth forest continues

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2010

Hadapi Moratorium dan Kritik di Indonesia, Sinar Mas Cari Kesempatan Baru untuk Minyak Kelapa di Liberia

Indonesia.mongabay.com 27 Sep 2010

Facing moratorium and criticism in Indonesia, Sinar Mas looks to Liberia for new palm oil opportunities

Mongabay.com 5 Sep 2010

Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records

Jeremy Hance 9 Aug 2010

Meski Menurun, Pembalakan Liar Masih Masalah Besar

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2010

Cameroon says goodbye to cheetahs and African wild dogs

Jeremy Hance 28 Jul 2010

Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still ‘major problem’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2010

Saving one of West Africa’s last hippo populations

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2010

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