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Thatching grass collected in the miombo woodlands. Thatching grass is used to roof homes, woven into fences and for other purposes, and is one of the numerous non-timber forest products derived from the woodlands. Image courtesy of Edwin Tambara, AWF.

Meet the Miombo, the largest forest you’ve never heard of

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Sep 2024
In community fisheries reserves, fish scouts or guards patrol the rivers to remove illegal nets and enforce local rules. Fish monitors record catches that are taken legally to track the state of their local fish stocks. Photo courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)

Gail Thomson 22 Aug 2024

All conservation is local: Interview with Angolan conservationist Kerllen Costa

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

Tracing Africa’s ‘fading biological fingerprints’ in Angola’s threatened forests

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2024
Elephant and calf in Moremi National Park, Botswana. Image by serenea_tang via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends

Jim Tan 9 Apr 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor / Robin Naidoo / Lisa Steel / Michael Knight / Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023
A woman in a yellow top and bright multicoloured wrapper, smiling as she walks across sandy verge of a paved road to where blue and white bags of dark black charcoal have been set on the ground near Praça das Mangueiras, in southwestern Angola. In the background, more charcoal in tall white sacks. Image by Carsten Ten Brink via Flickr (BY NC-ND 2.0)

Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2023
A logger marking a log in Uganda during tree harvesting for timber.

Forests & Finance: Wood export bans and short-staffed regulators

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023
Artisanal timber producers in Cameroon. Image by Mokhamad Eldiadi/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.o)

Forests & finance: Protection and restoration in Cameroon and Senegal, fire threat in Angola

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 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
A golden blue-legged baboon spider.

Study: Online trade in arachnids threatens some species with extinction

Ryan Truscott 1 Mar 2023
Zebras in Okavango Delta.

Protecting the peatlands and woodlands in Angola’s ‘source of life’

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2022
People wait on the Kasai bank to cross the river.

The mine leak was bad. The DRC and Angola’s response are no better, report says

Anna Majavu 4 Oct 2022

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2021
Pirogues on the Kasai River with forests on the far bank. Image by Terese Hart via Flickr.

Toxic spill at Angola diamond mine pollutes Congo River tributary in DRC

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 1 Sep 2021
clearing mines in Angola, a HALO Trust worker wearing blue protective gear on his knees probing grass and dirt with his hands. Credit: The HALO Trust

Angola pledges $60m to fund landmine clearance in national parks

Jim Tan 25 Jun 2019

New species of skink from Angola has waited over 70 years to be described

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2019

180 years of herps: Q&A with Luis Ceríaco on Angola’s atlas of life

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Mar 2019

Tracking elephant movements reveals transboundary wildlife corridors

Calistus Bosaletswe 10 Sep 2018

Earless African pygmy toad discovered on remote mountain in Angola

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Aug 2018

This new primate is a ‘giant’ among tiny bush babies

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Feb 2017

Measuring the Heartbeat of the Delta

Katie Taylor 13 Jan 2016

Big increase in little farms is whittling away Angola’s woodlands

Apoorva Joshi 17 Dec 2015

Rebuilding Kissama: war-torn Angola’s only national park affected by deforestation, but refaunation gives hope

Fidelis Zvomuya 24 Jul 2014

Zebras for the win! Africa’s longest land migration discovered

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 May 2014

Worst drought in 30 years threatens millions in southern Africa with food insecurity

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2013

Scientists discover new giant mole rat in Africa (photos)

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2013

Google Earth used to discover unknown forest in Angola, scientists find it full of rare birds

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2012

Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land

Mongabay.com 28 May 2009

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