Explained: Why Tiger Bone Wine Threatens African Lions With Extinction
Asian demand for tiger bone wine now threatens African lions.
Explained: How Traditional Cattle Herding Grew Northern Botswana's Lion Population by 50%
By 2013, farmers had killed half the Okavango's lions in a year. A herding revival changed everything.
Reading the Forest Through Water: Rwanda's New Biodiversity Tool at Volcanoes National Park
Reading the Forest Through Water: Rwanda's New Biodiversity Tool at Volcanoes National Park
Do Tourists Scare Wildlife? What the Data Says...
Researchers analysed 44 studies spanning 38 species and 30 years to understand how wild animals change their behaviour in response to different types of human activity—from hunting and hiking to roads and settlements.
The Extinction Crisis Inside South Africa's Traditional Medicine Trade
South Africa's traditional healers are traveling further than ever to gather medicinal plants.
Why Do 80% of Africa's Species Survive Outside Parks? And Why Are the Communities Protecting Them Still Fighting for Their Land?
The future of conservation depends on the people who've lived alongside nature for generations.
How We Grew It: Taking on Shell, Mining Giants, And Building Community Resilience on South Africa's Wild Coast
Sinegugu Zukulu, founder of Sustaining the Wild Coast, on holding a resistance movement together through assassination attempts and murder—while building alternatives that work with 2,000 farmers and take on mining giants and Shell in the constitutional court.
Indigenous Monitors Stopped Millions of Dollars in Illegal Timber Using Free Apps — And How You Could Join The Fight This Week
Communities across Africa are using free satellite monitoring tools to fight illegal logging—and winning.
How We Grew It: PAMS Foundation. From Village Patrols to Growing Tanzania's Wildlife Anti-Trafficking Network
After traffickers murdered their co-director, PAMS Foundation expanded rather than collapsed. Co-founder Krissie Clark shares lessons on building resilient conservation funding and why actions speak louder than marketing.
Robyn Morland, ACES: If a Community Can Only Say Yes, Then Their Voice Is Not Genuine
ACES Director Robyn Morland explains why genuine community-led conservation means accepting when communities reject projects—and what funders must understand.
Marie-Noelle Keijzer, We Forest: It's Not About Being Perfect. It's About Stopping the Desert.
WeForest is scaling reforestation across Africa. Here's what they've learned about what works.
How We Grew It: We Used A Japanese Tree Planting Technique to Revive Our Villages in Cameroon
Limbi Blessing Tata founded Ecological Balance Cameroon in 2016 after recognising that water infrastructure alone wouldn't solve Nkambe's chronic water scarcity. Her solution drew on a childhood observation: as forests moved further from her community, streams moved with them.