A massive new protected area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – equal to the size of France – has so far failed to

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Gabon’s biodiversity is among the largest and most diverse wild ecosystems in the world, with nearly 90% of its territory covered in rainforests. The country

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Bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which vessels drag weighted nets along the seafloor, has long been condemned by conservationists for disrupting seabed habitat and

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MOROGORO, Tanzania – Rats have long been misunderstood, often seen as pests rather than pals. However, the African giant pouched rat, the largest in the

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MOROGORO, Tanzania — Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), the world’s longest, is challenging

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Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment. There are less than two months left for governments to deliver likely one of

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Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, hyperaware that pathogens can jump

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The bobcat population has rebounded over the past 125 years, making it North America’s most common wildcat: as of 2011, there were an estimated 3.5

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Emily Armistead is Interim Executive Director at Madre Brava. One of the most striking, and widely shared, images of the recent catastrophic California fires was of a

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