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Saliou Hassana, a 17-year-old gold miner, extracting and collecting gold nuggets using mercury at Kambélé III. Image © Yannick Kenné.

About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 29 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
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
The Gabonese and Congolese forests help to create the rainfall in the Sahel. Image by Axel Rouvin via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Tracking the moves of Asian forestry companies in Central Africa (analysis)

Alain Karsenty 21 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

As a Cameroon palm oil firm gets RSPO certified, it’s also found in breach

Victoria Schneider 9 Sep 2022
A miner panning for gold in a gold-bearing basin using mercury

Chinese companies criticized for mercury pollution in Cameroon

Christophe Nyemeck Beat 5 Sep 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022
A refugee from Nigeria walks in the Minawao refugee camp.

Nigerian refugees in Cameroon turn biomass into charcoal to spare trees

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 27 Jul 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022

Civil conflict in Cameroon puts endangered chimpanzees in the crosshairs

Aminateh Nkemngu 15 Mar 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022

On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Orji Sunday 25 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021
Fallen giant: a member of the survey team inspects the remains of a felled African zebrawood in Ebo Forest  Image courtesy Eric Nana.

Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction

Ryan Truscott 4 Oct 2021
In Mambele, in Eastern Cameroon, an indigenous Baka woman is raising awareness of other Baka indigenous communities on the importance of washing hands to prevent COVID-19. May 2020. Image courtesy of OKANI.

Filling the vacuum: How civil society is battling COVID-19 in Cameroon (commentary)

Madeleine Ngeunga 3 Sep 2020

Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Aug 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Indigenous-led technology solutions can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights (commentary)

Alice Sheppard, Jerome Lewis, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws, Simon Hoyte 27 Jul 2020

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jul 2020

Camera snaps first ever glimpse of a troop of the world’s rarest gorilla

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jul 2020

‘If they take our lands, we’ll be dead’: Cameroon village battles palm oil giant

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2020

How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2020

For Freedom the gorilla, a months-long journey back to the wilds of Cameroon

Tina Deines 19 May 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett A. Butler 27 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

World’s largest frog moves heavy rocks to build nests, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2019

Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

Sarah Sax 22 Jul 2019

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

Rachel Fritts 1 May 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019

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