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Malawi Feature: A conservation success story

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Descendants of families forcibly displaced during the creation of Maiko National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo back in the 1970s are now leading a ne...

Six marine sanctuaries recognized as Blue Parks, four of them in Africa

MOMBASA — At the Our Ocean conference in Mombasa, Kenya, a message echoed across sessions: Effective marine protected areas (MPAs) are critical to safeguarding oceans. The Blue Par...

Iconic Kruger National Park Celebrates 100th Year of Protecting African Wildlife, Including the Big 5

On Sunday, South African authorities and nature lovers alike celebrated the centenary of  Kruger National Park—a 7,500-square-mile paradise of African wildlife, and a cornerstone o...

Hlane Royal National Park: Wild Heart of Eswatini 

There are places in Africa where nature still dictates the rhythm of life. Where the dawn is announced by the distant roar of a lion, elephants wander through ancient woodlands, an...

Zimbabwe transfers wildlife to Equatorial Guinea under conservation deal

Zimbabwe has begun capturing and relocating selected wildlife species to Equatorial Guinea under a government-to-government conservation agreement aimed at restoring animal populat...

Zimbabwe lands major conservation funding

Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE has secured fresh conservation fund­ing under phase four of the KfW-supported Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (Kaza......

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

ELEPHANT MARSH, Malawi — At 5:30 am, trader Flora Kumilai is squatting before a heap of smoked catfish at Sorjin Market in southern Malawi’s Elephant Marsh, haggling with sellers o...

Kenya Wildlife Service announce plans for relocation of Nairobi Animal Orphanage

The Kenya Wildlife service has rolled out plans to relocate its 62-year-old Nairobi animal orphanage due to an increase in the number of rescued wildlife it houses as a rising huma...

Zimbabwe: They're Back! Rhino Orphans Return to the Shores of Lake Kariba

[Daily Maverick] Three decades after their parents were evacuated to save them from the bullets of poachers, a group of black rhinos has returned home to Zimbabwe's Matusadona Nati...

Wild Africa debuts with inspiring stories from the frontlines of conservation

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Nigeria: Rescued orphaned elephant highlights conservation fight

As dawn breaks over Nigeria's Okomu National Park, an exhausted wildlife caretaker prepares milk formula for Agbaibor, a months-old orphaned forest elephant rescued after wandering...

New $48 million conservation project could transform Eswatini’s safari tourism

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Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo — In the lush forests of North Kivu, Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. leads a forest patrol with members of his community. Together, they monitor hu...

Activists protests over Nairobi National Park plan

Environmental activists and conservationists staged a protest in Nairobi on Monday against plans to construct a parking facility inside Nairobi National Park.

Critically endangered black rhinos flown into Zimbabwe reserve

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Herculean Effort to Restore Mozambique’s Rhino Population Succeeds with 61 Animals Moved There

9 female white rhino have been reintroduced to one of Mozambique’s southern national parks as part of a mammoth undertaking to bring back species the country has lost. Mozambique w...

Tanapa steps up conservation efforts for Gombe chimpanzees

The population of Gombe National Park’s chimpanzees has fallen by nearly 50 percent since the early years of research by Jane Goodall in the 1960s, raising concerns about the futur...

Rhinos return to billionaire-backed Zimbabwe park after 1990s wipe out

Bloomberg Black rhinos are being reintroduced into a billionaire-backed national park in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley three decades after almost all of them were evacuated to protect...

Conservation in action: Seven reasons to celebrate Africa’s wildlife

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'Rare animals, photography, and Instagram' could help an Ivorian rainforest

Chimpanzee sightings are a major attraction for any visitor to the park, but other animals, including one of the world’s largest scorpions and Africa’s largest and rarest owl, coul...

Zambia launches project to restore degraded ecosystem

LUSAKA, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Zambia on Friday launched a project to restore ecosystems and improve people's livelihoods. The Kafue Flats Wildlife, Habitat, Health and Livelihood Proj...

Mongabay Africa’s most-read stories so far in 2026

From human-elephant coexistence to an alternative conservation model from the Democratic Republic of Congo, from teen innovators in Kenya to Guinea’s complicated experience with mi...

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

DJOUROUTOU, Côte d’Ivoire — After a night of heavy rain, the chimpanzees of Taï Forest, in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire, like to sleep in. Early on a late May morning, chimpanzee gui...