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An Mbororo herder in a green caftan and his cattle in Cameroon, Image courtesy of Village Aid.

Herders caught between conflict and climate change in the northern Congo Basin

Didier Makal 2 Aug 2024

Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Jun 2024
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (commentary)

Dodé H.M. Houehounha / Ichu G. Ichu / Paul Telfer / Felin Twagirashyaka / Jennica Betsch / Jean Hugé / Baudouin Michel / Cédric Vermeulen 26 Mar 2024
A group of elephants standing in mud and shallow water, pausing from digging for salt-rich mud in the Dzanga baï in the Sangha Rainforest in the Central African Republic. Image courtesy Jan Teede.

Congo Basin’s elephants boost carbon capture, but need salt-licks to survive

Leonie Joubert 15 Aug 2023
Promotional image of the project. Courtesy of Nathalie Lum, Chair of CABEF 2023 CAPS

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

Elodie Toto 11 Apr 2023
Bonga enjoying the feeling of the cooler part of our walk through the forest one afternoon in 2018. Copyright Ana Verahrami/Elephant Listening Project.

To conserve the vibrant diversity of Central Africa’s forests, include Indigenous people (commentary)

Anahita Verahrami 16 May 2022

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2018
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2018

No more elephants? Poaching crisis takes its toll in the Central African Republic

Alexandra Popescu 24 Jan 2018

Protections for Africa’s rainforests aren’t working for people or wildlife: report

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett A. Butler 30 Sep 2015

‘Measured in human lives’: report finds EU and logging companies complicit in funding war

John Cannon 15 Sep 2015

Deforestation rate falls in Congo Basin countries

Rhett A. Butler 22 Jul 2013

African militias trading elephant ivory for weapons

Kara Moses 5 Jun 2013

Gabon steps in to help protect elephants from ivory poaching at Central African Republic site

Mongabay.com 18 May 2013

Elephants massacred for ivory in Central African Republic

Mongabay.com 10 May 2013

17 poachers allegedly enter elephant stronghold in Congo, conservationists fear massacre

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2013

A thousand soldiers sent after marauding elephant poachers [warning: graphic photos]

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

62% of all Africa’s forest elephants killed in 10 years (warning: graphic images)

Rhett A. Butler 4 Mar 2013

10 African countries to develop satellite-based deforestation tracking systems with help of Brazil

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2012

10,000 sq mi of Congo rainforest declared World Heritage site

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2012

Deforestation increases in the Congo rainforest

Rhett A. Butler 20 Mar 2012

Community mapping of African rainforests could show way forward for preservation, REDD

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2011

Bushmeat hunting alters forest structure in Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2010

Loss of old growth forest continues

Rhett A. Butler 6 Oct 2010

Financial crisis pummels wildlife and people in the Congo rainforest

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2010

A nation of tragedies: the unseen elephant wars of Chad

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2010

Congo basin rainforest countries

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2010

Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2008

Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2008

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