DRC: 4 Men Killed by Poachers in Garamba Park
Four men gave their lives on Monday, October 5, 2015 in an effort to stop more elephants from dying....
All posts about Biodiversity
New Census of the Virunga Massif Mountain Gorilla Population…
National park authorities in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today began a new population census...
Air transport urged to join fight against illegal wildlife…
Airports worldwide have been called upon to have prominent CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
EU and logging companies complicit in funding war in…
Europe’s timber imports from the Central African Republic (CAR) have helped fuel and prolong nearly three years of violence...
Will community management help save the black rhino from…
An unprecedented action took place earlier this year at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy based in northern Kenya: the translocation of...
Congo Basin Parks on the Precipice?
Preliminary evidence from an ongoing study by Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) suggest Congo Basin protected areas may not be...
Saving Elephants from a Devastating Wave of Poaching
This is an ESRI interactive article and map illustrating the dramatic decline of elephant populations in Africa. The story...
Extraordinary Ministers’ Conference in Yaounde seeks to strengthen and…
The Ministers of the Organization for the Conservation of Wildlife in Africa (OCFSA) held an extraordinary session on the...
Gabon: 10billion CFAF EU grant for national parks management
“The European Union (EU) has awarded Gabon 10 billion CFAF in funding to bolster the management of its 13...
Fighting ivory smuggling through capacity building in Central Africa
“Limbe, Cameroon, April 2015—Wildlife law enforcement officers and other agencies involved in law enforcement including police, Customs, gendarmerie and...
Vital poaching evidence goes up in smoke
Mozambique yesterday destroyed 2434.6 kg of elephant ivory and 86 pieces of rhino horn weighing a total of 193.5...
Why Chimps Are Disappearing and How to Save Them
Author and conservationist Nancy Merrick first fell under the spell of chimpanzees in the 1970s, when she worked at...
Large mammal migration within TRIDOM landscape: Memorandum of agreement…
“May 13 to 14, 2015: The conference room of the Serena Hotel in Bali, Douala provided the setting for...
Commercial bushmeat hunters put previously undetected pressure on Central…
While conducting a bird survey in the Ebo Forest Reserve of Cameroon, Scottish ornithologist Robin Whytock noted two uncommon...Congo-Brazzaville president burns five tonnes of ivory in fight…
From the CBFP newsletter quoting the Guardian: ” The Guardian Thursday 30th April, 2015: Denis Sassou Nguesso sets pile of...African Wildlife Foundation: 15th CBFP meeting, should the bushmeat…
From 17 to 19 June 2015, the Yaounde Conference Center (Cameroon) provided the setting for the 15th Meeting of...
Expedition in the Congo rediscovers lost primate
The last time there was a sighting of Bouvier’s red colobus disco was all the rage, the Internet was...Wildlife activists concerned over Uganda-Congo border oil
Activists on Thursday urged Uganda’s government to reverse a decision to open for oil drilling a wildlife park on...
Deep in the jungle, hunting for the next Ebola…
More than 3,000 miles from the fading Ebola crisis in West Africa, a team of U.S.-funded researchers is hunting...