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Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends
09 Apr 2024 10:26:58 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/analysis-of-largest-elephant-surveys-ever-shows-stable-population-but-disturbing-trends/
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New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’
13 Mar 2024 04:09:28 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-ecoregion-proposed-for-southern-africas-threatened-sky-islands/
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Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall
11 Mar 2024 15:58:45 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/global-conference-to-accelerate-nature-based-solutions-interview-with-self-help-africas-patricia-wall/
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Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)
03 Jan 2024 20:32:35 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/count-connect-conserve-southern-africa-elephant-survey-points-the-way-commentary/
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Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape
03 Jan 2024 15:43:13 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/study-tiny-tortoise-may-play-large-role-in-south-africas-karoo-landscape/
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Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model
29 Dec 2023 03:19:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/report-rush-for-clean-energy-minerals-in-africa-risks-repeating-harmful-extractivist-model/
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Control of Africa’s forests must not be sold to carbon offset companies (commentary)
17 Nov 2023 21:50:19 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/control-of-africas-forests-must-not-be-sold-to-carbon-offset-companies-commentary/
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New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’
15 Nov 2023 07:30:14 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/new-study-pushes-for-protection-of-one-of-africas-least-understood-treasures/
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South Africa’s penguins heading toward extinction; will no-fishing zones help?
17 Oct 2023 19:05:17 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/south-africas-penguins-heading-toward-extinction-will-no-fishing-zones-help/
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African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program
11 Sep 2023 20:29:52 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/african-parks-to-rewild-2000-rhinos-from-controversial-breeding-program/
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For South Africa’s small fishers, co-ops prove a necessary, but bumpy, step up
31 Aug 2023 18:13:28 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/for-south-africas-small-fishers-co-ops-prove-a-necessary-but-bumpy-step-up/
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World’s largest private rhino herd doesn’t have a buyer — or much of a future
11 Aug 2023 11:39:19 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/worlds-largest-private-rhino-herd-doesnt-have-a-buyer-or-much-of-a-future/
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Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana
31 Jul 2023 23:45:50 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/forests-finance-fears-for-forests-in-angola-flashes-of-hope-from-kenya-ghana/
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Even community stewardship can’t save rangeland beset by legacy of misrule
21 Jul 2023 07:55:45 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/even-community-stewardship-cant-save-rangeland-beset-by-legacy-of-misrule/
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Southern African caterpillar that feeds millions may be next climate casualty
15 Jun 2023 12:13:28 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/southern-african-caterpillar-that-feeds-millions-may-be-next-climate-casualty/
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‘Shocking’ levels of pangolin deaths from electric fences (commentary)
02 Jun 2023 17:26:39 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/shocking-levels-of-pangolin-deaths-from-electric-fences-commentary/
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Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo
22 May 2023 21:19:17 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/fires-threaten-afromontane-forests-whole-new-world-qa-with-martim-melo/
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‘Anthill tiger’: Putting one of Africa’s rarest wildcats on the radar
18 May 2023 14:41:28 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/anthill-tiger-putting-one-of-africas-rarest-wildcats-on-the-radar/
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Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa
03 May 2023 08:59:32 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/forests-finance-agroforestry-in-cameroon-and-reforestation-in-south-africa/
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South Africa: Little hope in green transition in town with “the dirtiest air in the world”
26 Apr 2023 02:41:29 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/south-africa-little-hope-in-green-transition-in-town-with-the-dirtiest-air-in-the-world/
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Conserve wildlands in southern Africa by protecting Indigenous rights (commentary)
21 Apr 2023 15:32:53 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/conserve-wildlands-in-southern-africa-by-protecting-indigenous-rights-commentary/
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Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)
19 Apr 2023 17:46:15 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/namibias-first-peoples-struggle-to-access-their-communal-lands-commentary/
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Namibian community protects its rhinos from poaching but could lose them to mining
13 Mar 2023 21:09:45 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/namibian-community-protects-its-rhinos-from-poaching-but-could-lose-them-to-mining/
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‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch
13 Mar 2023 14:46:15 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/impact-assessments-need-a-shake-up-qa-with-georgine-kengne-morgan-hauptfleisch/
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Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA
08 Mar 2023 20:44:42 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/element-africa-claims-of-mining-encroachment-in-drc-and-broken-promises-in-sa/
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Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests
23 Feb 2023 12:40:01 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/forests-finance-a-lawsuit-an-import-ban-and-restoring-zambian-forests/
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Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal
21 Feb 2023 12:24:59 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/element-africa-the-platinum-bully-and-the-secret-oil-deal/
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Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation
31 Jan 2023 16:27:26 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/element-africa-lead-poisoning-polluted-rivers-and-calamitous-mining-regulation/
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In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go
28 Nov 2022 18:21:15 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/in-south-africa-a-community-says-no-after-a-coal-miner-said-go/
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‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst
28 Nov 2022 17:05:18 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/i-have-anger-every-day-south-african-villagers-on-the-mine-in-their-midst/
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Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin
15 Nov 2022 16:06:19 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/breeding-success-raises-hopes-for-future-of-endangered-african-penguin/
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Forests & Finance: Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community
15 Nov 2022 12:12:17 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/forests-finance-certification-for-deforesters-and-repression-for-an-evicted-community/
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Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)
14 Nov 2022 19:04:32 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/support-wildlife-rangers-to-protect-wildlife-habitats-for-the-future-commentary/
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Protecting the peatlands and woodlands in Angola’s ‘source of life’
11 Nov 2022 15:31:58 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/protecting-the-peatlands-and-woodlands-in-angolas-source-of-life/
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Forests & Finance: From logging in Cameroon to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire
31 Oct 2022 10:30:23 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/forests-finance-from-logging-in-cameroon-to-cocoa-in-cote-divoire/
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Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project
24 Oct 2022 23:29:26 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/broken-houses-and-promises-residents-still-in-poverty-near-massive-diamond-project/
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Element Africa: Mines take their toll on nature and communities
20 Oct 2022 17:21:14 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/element-africa-mines-take-their-toll-on-nature-and-communities/
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Forests & Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife
18 Oct 2022 20:30:50 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/forests-finance-a-road-project-food-baskets-and-unique-wildlife/
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Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation
14 Oct 2022 10:58:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/poaching-surges-in-the-birthplace-of-white-rhino-conservation/
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Australian oil and gas firm Invictus awarded carbon offset project in Zimbabwe
12 Oct 2022 12:13:48 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/australian-oil-and-gas-firm-invictus-awarded-carbon-offset-project-in-zimbabwe/
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Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves
05 Oct 2022 11:15:58 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/forests-finance-sit-ins-seeds-over-seedlings-and-fuel-saving-cookstoves/
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Element Africa: Diamonds, oil, coltan, and more diamonds
04 Oct 2022 14:10:23 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/element-africa-diamonds-oil-coltan-and-more-diamonds/
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As poachers poison wildlife, Zimbabwe finds an antidote in tougher laws
12 Sep 2022 09:07:28 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/as-poachers-poison-wildlife-zimbabwe-finds-an-antidote-in-tougher-laws/
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Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality
09 Sep 2022 01:04:40 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/human-pressures-strain-lake-tanganyikas-biodiversity-and-water-quality/
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It’s time to center African people in the conservation agenda (commentary)
24 Aug 2022 16:13:03 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/its-time-to-center-african-people-in-the-conservation-agenda-commentary/
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Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics
11 Aug 2022 18:25:06 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/drought-beset-south-african-city-taps-aquifer-shirks-long-term-solutions-critics/
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Mozambique busts notorious rhino poacher
01 Aug 2022 07:53:39 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/mozambique-busts-notorious-rhino-poacher/
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Beyond bored apes: Blockchain polarizes wildlife conservation community
26 Jul 2022 10:47:58 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/beyond-bored-apes-blockchain-polarizes-wildlife-conservation-community/
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White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community
19 Jul 2022 09:04:06 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/white-rhino-conservation-project-attempts-paradigm-shift-by-including-local-community/
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High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms
29 Jun 2022 15:34:46 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/high-tech-early-warning-system-could-curb-next-south-african-locust-swarms/
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Twenty years since a massive ivory seizure, what lessons were learned? (commentary)
27 Jun 2022 15:33:12 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/twenty-years-since-a-massive-ivory-seizure-what-lessons-were-learned-commentary/
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World is losing ‘magical’ tradition of human-animal mutualism, study warns
13 Jun 2022 13:05:05 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/world-is-losing-magical-tradition-of-human-animal-mutualism-study-warns/
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Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?
07 Jun 2022 12:33:49 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/can-wonder-plant-spekboom-really-bring-smiles-back-to-sad-south-african-towns/
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Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild
01 Jun 2022 20:35:41 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/rehabilitation-research-returns-orphaned-cheetahs-to-the-wild/
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Cash-strapped Zimbabwe pushes to be allowed to sell its ivory stockpile
01 Jun 2022 16:00:34 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/cash-strapped-zimbabwe-pushes-to-be-allowed-to-sell-its-ivory-stockpile/
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‘The wheels came off’: South Africa court nixes coal mine extension
12 May 2022 17:03:46 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/the-wheels-came-off-south-africa-court-nixes-coal-mine-extension/
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Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)
12 May 2022 12:33:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/malawi-steps-up-action-against-illegal-charcoal-trade-analysis/
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Bull run: South Africa marks latest rhino relocation to boost populations
09 May 2022 18:00:31 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/bull-run-south-africa-marks-latest-rhino-relocation-to-boost-populations/
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What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds
09 May 2022 17:43:03 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/whats-popping-humpbacks-off-south-africa-new-acoustic-study-finds/
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Saving the near-extinct estuarine pipefish means protecting estuary health
03 May 2022 17:15:17 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/saving-the-near-extinct-estuarine-pipefish-means-protecting-estuary-health/
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