Tribal communities suffer when evicted in the name of conservation

The tribal communities are paying a brutal price for governments' agenda to boost safari, create protected areas and attract tourism

Greasy step forward

Locust invasion

Lake Chad's forgotten crisis

Ecological degradation in the Chad Basin has triggered Africa's latest humanitarian crisis. It's time, the basin countries looked beyond the …

At farm's hand

CAMEROON

Pact of devastation

France has agreed to cancel part of the debt it is owed by Cameroon in return for the right to destroy the country's rainforests

Dangerously beautiful

At farm's hand

They won't chicken out

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CAMEROON

Frozen account

World Rainforest Day: Goliath frogs need urgent conservation measures

Goliath frog population is estimated to have halved in the last 15 years

African Union’s peace and security architecture: Filling the gaps

The biggest change has been the shift away from the OAU’s so-called non-interference stance to the AU’s more interventionist approach

A losing battle to protect forest elephants in Central Africa  

Unless urgent conservation action is taken, the world stands to lose this charismatic species

Pushed to the brink of extinction

The Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee fights a losing battle against innumerable threats

CAMEROON

Questionable move

The imperatives of governing world’s forests

For the past eight years, leaders of public forest agencies from the world’s most forested countries have been taking part in a series of …

Antimicrobial resistance to cost global economy up to US $210 trillion

Countries like India which have high rates of malaria, HIV and tuberculosis likely to suffer more if they don't take immediate action to tackle …

Blame's on chimps

For forest elephants in Central Africa, no place is safe from poaching

A recent study shows a 78-81 per cent decline in elephant population from the most protected area in Central Africa over a period of ten years

Bytes

Lion hunting only makes sense if it's part of a package of interventions

New research from Zambia's Luangwa Valley identifies reforms needed for lion trophy hunting